Ruth McGonagill and a neighbor's baby at tent house with pipe from milk can stove. The family lived here, in the Kawich Range, from about September 1904 through March 1905. (This camp was called Wheaton and was a couple miles up the gully from Silver Bow, Nevada)

Photograph of a survey team standing outside a tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Photograph of the railroad surveyors' camp cook outside of a tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Inscription on front reads: Silver Shield Mine, Nev.

Caption: Waldorf-Astoria, not New York but Goldfield, Nev.

Photograph of a man setting up a tent in a railroad survey camp, Eldorado Canyon (Nev.), March, 1907

Date of photograph estimated between 1904-1905. View of a bath house inside a tent on Las Vegas Creek in Las Vegas Ranch. "...water diverted from Las Vegas Creek ran through the sawed board in the foreground and into a wooden tub sunk in the ground. A plank is provided to step on while drying off, and thick matting covers the bare earth. Canvas curtains provided privacy" (p. [88], "Las Vegas, as it began--and grew" by Stanley W. Paher).