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"Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad - The Goldfield Route" map
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Map showing "Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad 'The Goldfield Route.'" On the back it lists a timetable, railroad employees and executives, and descriptions of districts and towns: Johnnie, Beatty, Rhyolite, Bonnie Clare, Goldfield, Tonopah, Manhattan, Round Mountain, and Hornsilver.
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Lisle, Chloe, 1916-2001
Alberta Chloe Colvin was born on December 1, 1916 in Cherry, Nebraska. Chloe Calvin moved to Beatty, Nevada in the 1930s and worked as a schoolteacher. Chloe married Ralph Fairbanks Lisle on July 5, 1939. In 1955, the Lisle family opened a hardware store in Beatty. Chloe Lisle passed away on February 2, 2001 at the age of 84.
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Possibly Mrs. Heisler or Mrs. Moffatt: 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.G. Reidhead Family. The woman featured here is either Mrs. Heisler, a sister to a gentleman who was at the Rhyolite Railroad Depot, or Mrs. Moffatt - - probably Mrs. Heisler. Fred Davies' dog, Boots, is also pictured. Probably late 1930s or early 1940s, somewhere in Nye County, Nevada.
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Florence Palsgrove (left) and Chloe Lisle: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Possibly in Nye County, Nevada. From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.B. Lisle Family.
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Postcard of Miners Union, Rhyolite, Nevada, 1906
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Archival Collection
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Albert Revert standing: 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.C. Revert Family. This photo was taken at the south end of town.
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People in a Marble quarry at Carrara: 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.E. Lemmon Family. The people pictured are unidentified.
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