Handwritten description provided on back of image: "One of the first stores - Palace Hotel at extreme right - Notice tent houses Botkin built house Mrs. Brocburare (sp?) livedin on S. Fourth." Another description included with the photo: "I.W. Botkins Store moved from Old Town - 1905. Clothing & shoes - Fremont St. Ease 25 ft. of Mint Hotel. Originally Block and Botkin."
Photo includes Union Pacific Railroad depot, Las Vegas Drug Store, laundry business and other buildings. The view is south-western with the intersection of Ogden Street and Main Street visible in the right center of the photograph. Approximate date 1909.
Row of railroad cottages in Clark's Las Vegas Townsite. Photograph is of a Wharton Drug Company postcard. 64 railroad cottages were built between 1909 and 1911 by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. Caption: R. R. cottages, Las Vegas, Nev. 1911