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Phi Lee in front of his home at Resting Spring, about 5 miles east of Tecopa, California: photographic print

Date

1890

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family. Lee is the Father of the two boys, Bob and Dick Lee, pictured in pho004986.

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Tweed Wilson, a Native American who was the grandson of the founder of Wilson Ranch near Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1956 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family. The ranch is now known as Spring Mountain State Park.

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Amargosa Valley, Nevada looking southwest toward the Funeral Mountains: photographic print

Date

1959 to 1960

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family. The property pictured is on the corner of Section 7. The home pictured was a frame structure moved from Las Vegas. It is the first town- built home in the Amargosa Farm Area. The trees pictured here were as high as 50 feet in 1988.

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Amargosa Valley looking west over land in Section 7: photographic print

Date

1910 (year approximate) to 1940 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family. The profile of the Funeral Mountains in the distance is referred to locally as the " Old man", with the notch below the sharp pointed peak forming the open mouth of a sleeping man, his body stretching to the left.

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Ditch leading to an overhead pivot sprinkler system on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1980

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family

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Pivot irrigation system operating: photographic print

Date

1980

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family. The boy pictured is the son of a Mexican farmhand.

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A shadow of man over newly planted saplings: photographic print

Date

1959

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family

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Trailer holds alfalfa pellets: photographic print

Date

1984

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family. Note the many horse tracks, horse droppings, and scattering of alfalfa cubes left by wild horses which are a constant problem for farmers in the Amargosa Valley Farm Area.

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Deputy Sheriff Glen Henderson and Hank Records (identified from left to right).: photographic print

Date

1968

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family. Nye County Deputy Sheriff Glen Henderson, whose area of responsibility included Beatty, the Amargosa Valley and Pahrump; at right, Hank Records, Amargosa Valley Farm Area pioneer; celebrating in their new leather jackets in Las Vegas, Nevada. Henderson's home in the Amargosa Valley became known locally as "Fort Henderson" and is sometimes still called that.

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Alfalfa cubes produced on the property of Hank Records in Amargosa Valley, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1984

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family

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