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David Walker "Deke" Lowe, Jr., at the central train control panel, Union Station, Las Vegas: 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.F. Lowe Family. David Walker "Deke" Lowe, Jr., at the central train control panel, where he worked as a train dispatcher from 1950 to 1960. The control facility was located at Union Station, Las Vegas, Nevada, present site of the Union Plaza Hotel.
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Daughters of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks in Long Beach, California: 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.F. Lowe Family. Two daughters of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks, Vonola Fairbanks, and Stella Fairbanks Brown. Vonola is standing. It was custom for desert dwellers, if they could afford to, to go to the beach in the summertime.
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Ralph Jacobus "Dad" Fairbanks in Shoshone, California: 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.F. Lowe Family. This photo was taken by a newspaper reporter from Los Angeles who came to Shoshone and wrote a spectacular article on the many people that Fairbanks had rescued from perishing in Death Valley, and other exploits.
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