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House and garden belonging to Gordon and Billie Bettles: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.A. Fishel Family (T&T Ranch). The house was occupied by Betty-Jo Boyde and her husband in 1990, was moved to the site by the Bettles from Death Valley Junction, California. The site was bare land when the Bettles moved onto it. As this picture testifies, Billie Bettle's reputation as a skilled gardener is fully justified.
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Flowering fruit trees in front of the home of Gordon and Billie Bettles: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.A. Fishel Family (T&T Ranch). The base of the flagpole is visible in the right foreground.
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Close-up of Orville Knighton Reed: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Known to all in Nye County, Nevada, as O.K. Reed. Knighton was his mother’s maiden name. Reed came to the Tonopah area in 1900.
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Roland Wiley and Elmer Bowman visit Harry and Mary Sackett, a Native American couple living on the Manse Ranch: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.D. Wiley Family.
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Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. Originally Crowell and his associates lived in dugout dwellings near the mine. The buildings in the foreground are a part of what they called "New Camp.".
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Construction of the mill at Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. The round machine near the base of the mill is a Lane Mill, which rotated and crushed the ore. All equipment and materials were moved to the building site using horses.
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Josiah Irving Crowell and his teenage son, J. Irving Crowell, Jr., in a 1917 Buick: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family
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Joyce Ruud shows her steer, Dynamite, at the J.C. Fair in Las Vegas: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.B. Ruud Family. The sign on the steer says, "PAHRUMP VALLEY 4-H". It also shows the sign that represents the 4-H Youth Development Program.
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Stanley Ford and his new six-cylinder Chevrolet truck: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.E. Ford Family. Ford was in the trucking business in the Los Angeles area.
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Jack Soules Memorial Golf Tournament: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.F. Hafen Family. Held at the Cal-Vada County Club Golf Course, Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada. Left to right: Tim Hafen; Warren Church, former President of Preferred Equities; Dottie Soules, widow of Jack Soules; and Fifth Judicial District Judge William P. Beko.
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