Materials contain photographs from the Crowell Family from 1914 to 1987. Materials include photographs of the mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains owned by Josiah Irving Crowell, the mine's mill, highways in the area, and six panoramic photographs of Beatty.
Archival Collection
Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00221 Collection Name: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection Box/Folder: N/A
Silver Peak, Nevada in the 1940s. There is an inscription on the back of the image. "Silver Peak was founded in the early 1860s and the area has produced over $17,500,000 in gold and silver. Today its major product is lithium, mined by the Foote Mineral company from the marsh east of town." There is a stamp October 1978.
Photograph in upper left corner of this page captioned "Old school house at Bingham Ut 1900." Photograph in upper right corner captioned "Asphaltene mine, Fort Duschene, Ut." Photograph in lower right corner captioned "Utah valley."