A postcard showing an unidentified man and dog sitting in a miniature covered wagon pulled by two burros. Handwritten on the postcard: "An old desert rat, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1931. Vote for Frank Waite, Sheriff." Richie's Garage and Shell service station are seen in the background.
Black and white image of a desert vagabond traveling with his goat, ox, chicken, and dog. A vagabond is a person who travels because they have no stationary home.
Edwin Kiel posed next to a horse and a dog at Kiel Ranch. There is a haystack and mesquite corral in background. 0105 0122 is a duplicate copy of this photo. Site Name: Kiel Ranch (North Las Vegas, Nev.)
Photographer's notations: Par Reporter, Playhouse opening, Dope adict pick-up on E St, Ted, Bennett receives gift from SS Mart, Dog & kid on street, Conventional Beauty Salon (Beatrice Propi [?]), Trash in alley. Some photos from this set were previously online with the digital ID pho022108.
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.
At Candelaria, Nevada: Re Princess Mill, Nov. 13, 1891. Identified from left to right: S.F. newspaperman (a director of Holmes Mining Co.), Col. W.J. Sutherland-Pres., Arthur Ashley (timekeeper), Capt. Hultz (a large owner), Lindsay Simpson. Front row: Col. David Howell Jackson (Supt.), Sam Jones with Col. Jackson's dog-Tion, Prof. Storch (company chemist).
Prospector Jim Butler and his wife Belle (on the right) with two unidentified men and a dog sitting outside of a tent with a stovepipe coming through the top, probably in Tonopah, Nevada. Jim Butler struck the first gold and silver ores in Tonopah and Belle Butler struck the Mizpah Mine claim in Tonopah.