Photograph in lower left is of the Union Pacific railroad station in Las Vegas at the northwest end of Fremont Street, circa 1905-1910. The photograph in the lower right corner shows part of the Union Pacific railyard in Las Vegas, circa 1910s.
Lawrence Canarelli was born in Roseburg, Oregon shortly after World War II. His family had no money and lived in a tent on the Umpqua River, foraging and living day-to-day. After their tent and everything they owned burned down, Canarelli’s family moved to various logging camps through Oregon and California. His father quit his job and unexpectedly left the family, leaving the 21-year old mother no choice but to put Canarelli and his three siblings in a Pentecostal orphanage.
Unidentified members of the Woods family at a reunion in Springerville, Arizona, near the Woods family home. Trucks are parked and tents are pitched in a field. Handwritten on back of photograph: "Ed Woods family encampment - Springerville, Ariz. 1979." These are relatives of Elbert Edwards on his mother's side.