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Orville Knighten Reed's ranch at Hawes Canyon, Nevada during a snowstorm: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). The black willows are believed to have been brought from Elko County by Reed.
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Willows during a heavy snowstorm: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada)
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Unidentified person at Warm Springs, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada)
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View of Raycraft Ranch: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.E. Ford Family. Cedar posts, on the left, were cut in the Spring Mountain Range. Pictured is a four-wheel trailer constructed by Stanley Ford.
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House on the Raycraft Ranch: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.E. Ford Family. The house was built by Jim Raycraft from lumber obtained at the Johnnie Townsite and hauled down to Pahrump in wagons. The car is a 1931 Graham, used by Stanley Ford to haul mail to Pahrump from the Johnnie Siding on the Tonopah Highway; the truck is a 1931 Chevrolet. It is said that during the summer the house was mostly hidden by the large willow trees.
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Atomic mushroom cloud from a test at the Nevada Test Site: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
Look closely toward the middle of the photograph, about an inch above the Mountain range, and you'll see an atomic mushroom cloud from a test at the Nevada Test Site. Photo was taken from the front yard of Harry Ford's home in Pahrump Valley, Nevada, looking north, a little east of Mount Sterling in 1952 or 1953. From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.E. Ford Family
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Harry "Button" Ford and his 1946 Ford convertible: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.E. Ford Family. Eighteen-year-old Harry "Button" Ford and his 1946 Ford convertible, parked in front of his home in Pahrump Valley, Nevada, during the summer of 1955.
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View of First Pahrump Harvest Festival: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.E. Ford Family. Looking northeast toward Mount Sterling.
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First Pahrump Harvest Festival: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.E. Ford Family. he celebration was held approximately where the arena exists in 1988, near the Community Building.
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John Deere tractor purchased by Stanley Ford: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.E. Ford Family. The tractor was purchased shortly after World War II, after Ford stopped using horses. Ford did not purchase the tractor new; at one time it had been used as a power plant for a sawmill.
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