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Photo album: photographs document Dorothy and Charles Keeler's travels to Reno, Nevada; Death Valley, California; Mt. Charleston, Nevada; Big Bear, California; Lake Arrowhead, California; Valley of Fire, Nevada; Bunkerville, Nevada; Rhyolite, Nevada; Goodsprings, Nevada; Nye County, Nevada; Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming; Zion National Park, Utah; Multnomah Falls, Oregon; Mission San Juan Capistrano, California; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Colorado Springs, Colorado; their home in Las Vegas, Nevada; the construction and dedication of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead; and assorted family photos, 1927-1935
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dorothy Keeler Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 02
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J. R. Lane Illuminating, Lubricating, and Fuel Oil Company Receipt Book
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The J. R. Lane Illuminating, Lubricating, and Fuel Oil Company Receipt Book (1908) consists of one receipt book listing the names of customers and purchases made in Rhyolite, Nevada in 1908. This material was formerly known as the Nell Laird Collection.
Archival Collection
George Ladd Papers
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The George Ladd Papers are comprised of a scrapbook dating from 1903 to 1906 that documents the final years of George Ladd, who was involved with the Bullfrog Mine in Rhyolite, Nevada. The scrapbook contents include personal correspondence, certificates of assays, telegrams, mining purchases, bank deposit slips, and correspondence between Ladd and the Bullfrog Mining Company.
Archival Collection
Charles Thomas-Perry Photograph Collection
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The Charles Thomas-Perry Photograph Collection depicts towns in Southern and Central Nevada from 1900 to 1940. The photographs primarily depict the Thomas and Perry families in Beatty, Nevada and Pioneer, Nevada, including Charles Thomas’s store and their family homes. The photographs also depict buildings, celebrations, children, and the towns of Searchlight, Rhyolite, Goodsprings, and Goldfield, Nevada.
Archival Collection
Wayne Cronister Photograph Collection
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The Wayne Cronister Photograph Collection depicts towns in Southern Nevada from 1905 to 1950. The photographs primarily depict Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada and the construction of the Hoover (Boulder) Dam on the Colorado River. The photographs also include the Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Las Vegas, Nevada, the abandoned town of Rhyolite, Nevada, and a mining camp in El Dorado Canyon.
Archival Collection
Alice Brown Photograph Collection
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The Alice Brown Photograph Collection (approximately 1920-1950) consists of black-and-white and color postcards and photographic prints, with some corresponding negatives and slides. Frasher's Fotos, a Pomona, California business, printed the majority of the postcards that illustrate locations in and around Rhyolite, Nevada and Death Valley, California.
Archival Collection
Images, 2019
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Scope and Contents
Photographic documentation of
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Memorial for Queer Rhyolite Papers
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Archival Component