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Unidentified children swimming in the pool at Crystal Springs, Ash Meadows, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series II. Ash Meadows, Nevada -- Subseries II.B. Toles Family
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Clay crew and equipment used to mine clay from the Bell Pit, Ash Meadows, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series II. Ash Meadows, Nevada -- Subseries II.B. Toles Family. Glen Jepperson, dragline operator; Jess Toles, mechanic and driver of the narrow gauge train; Jack Pardee, dump man; Mac McKinna, miner (identified from left to right). (Resume of mining operations and duties of crew members included behind photo).
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Drag line used at Bell Pit, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series II. Ash Meadows, Nevada -- Subseries II.B. Toles Family
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Narrow gauge ore train on the standard gauge tracks of the T&T Railroad, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series II. Ash Meadows, Nevada -- Subseries II.B. Toles Family. Train was used to haul clay from the Bell Pit to an off-loading ramp.
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Gasoline tractor operated by Dave Fairbanks to haul gold ore from a mine in Death Valley, 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. Dave Fairbanks, man standing on the right in the white shirt, is the uncle of Celesta Lisle Lowe.
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The Fairbanks' home in the background 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. Shoshone, California, between 1910 and 1915. Herman Jones is second from the left. Fourth from the right is Celestia Fairbanks, grandmother of Celesta Lisle Lowe. Third from right is R. J. "Dad" Fairbanks, husband of Celestia Fairbanks and grandfather of Celesta Lisle Lowe. Shorty Harris, co-discoverer of Bullfrog, often stayed in one of the Fairbanks bedrooms. He was noted for his loud snoring, which often caused people to think he was snoring to death
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Chickens and four individuals in Resting Spring, 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. Bob Lee, the shorter man in the white shirt, is pictured with his brother Dick Lee. Resting Spring is located about five miles east of Tecopa, California, on the Old Mormon Trail. Colonel John C. Fremont camped at Resting Spring in 1844 on his return trip from California to the east.
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John Quincy Lisle standing beside an ore wagon intended for use in a sodium sulphate mine, Moapa Valley: 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. Harry Adams, Ralph Lisle, Lisle's son-in-law and son, and John Quincy Lisle, father of Celesta Lisle Lowe (identified from left to right).
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Resting Spring, California, looking west: 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. The picture was taken from a small Mountain. Just behind Resting Spring. The roof of the old stone cabin, constructed before 1900, is visible at the far left.
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Ralph Jacobus "Dad" Fairbanks in Shoshone, 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. Cabins in the background were moved from Greenwater, California, and the building directly behind Fairbanks was used as a school, where Celesta Lowe attended 1st or 2nd grade.
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