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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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.K. Miscellaneous. Caesar Strozzi, father of Dolly Gillette, long-time Beatty, Nevada, resident, originally a native of Switzerland. This photograph was taken near Strozzi’s residence in the Grapevine Mountains.
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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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Katie Ford was born April 13, 1929 in Ely, Nevada. Her family lived in multiple cities in the state before moving to Beatty, Nevada when Ford was two years old. She worked at her family’s gas station and hotel while she was a teenager. When Ford moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1945, she continued her career as a waitress.
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