From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. The automobile is a 1914 Ford purchased by J. Irving Crowell, Jr., for $90.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. At that time the home was occupied by Crowell's father Josiah Irving Crowell, who had moved to Beatty from his mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. The Crowell fluorspar mine is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, continuously operated mines in Nevada. The dump and surface structures belie the mine's extensive underground workings and its long record of production.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. Showing flood damage and water levels on machinery inside the mill owned and operated by J. Irving Crowell's home on Second Street in Beatty. The mill was built to refine ore from the Crowell Fluorspar mine.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. The large building on the far right housed the Palmer Store. The white building with many windows is the California Hotel. The large with building left of the California Hotel is the Exchange Club.