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Postcard of ore mills, Belleville, Nevada, 1880s

Date

1880 to 1889

Description

Ore mills are to the left, sixteen-mule team is pulling four wagons on way to mine or wood camp. Mule skinner (driver) is riding a wheel horse, swampers and passengers are standing, water barrels are lashed to the sides of the wagons. Cordwood is stacked below the mill.

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Photograph of packtrains and buggies crossing desert, Tonopah (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

Unknown year in the decade of the 1900s

Description

Photograph of packtrains and buggies crossing desert, Tonopah (Nev.), early 1900s

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Photograph of Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1917

Date

1917

Description

View of businesses in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, looking northwest from the intersection of Fremont and First Streets towards the original Union Pacific Railroad Station. Horse-drawn wagons and automobiles are in the street. A banner for Democratic nominees to the Senate (Key Pittman) and Congress (Clay Tallman) hangs over the street. Written on back of photograph: [1917 Looking west from 1st and Fremont L-R: Beckley's mens store, L.V. Hotel, -,-, Union Plaza [sic] Depot, Las Vegas pharmacy on right corner (hospital on 2nd Floor), Dr. Roy Martin attending, First State Bank. ID by Shirley Ferron Swanson 10-25-83] Railroad employee homes from South 1st, 2nd, 3rd?

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Photograph of petroglyphs at Meadow Valley Wash, Nevada, circa mid 1900s - late 1900s

Date

1950 to 1999

Description

An unidentified individual standing beside petroglyphs carved onto rocks located at the mouth of Meadow Valley Wash in Nevada. Additional commentary provided with image: "Is this the pope-slover wagon of 1837-38, the first wagon to pass over the Old Spanish Trail?"

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Photograph of packtrain and horse team at mine, Round Mountain (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Photograph of packtrain and horse team at mine, Round Mountain (Nev.), early 1900s

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Photograph of a vagabond, Nevada, circa 1930s-1940s

Date

1930 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

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.

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