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Photograph of Don Yaeger, circa 1992

Date

1992 (year approximate)

Description

Description provided with image: "Don Yaeger, author of 'Shark Attack: Jerry Tarkanian and His Battle with the NCAA and UNLV.'"

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Black-and-white photograph of Oscar Wellington Stocker, circa mid 1800s

Date

Unknown year in the century of the 1800s

Archival Collection

Description

A portrait of Oscar Wellington Stocker, Harold Stocker's father.

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Black-and-white photograph of Oscar Wellington Stocker, circa mid 1800s

Date

Unknown year in the century of the 1800s

Archival Collection

Description

A portrait of Oscar Wellington Stocker, Harold Stocker's father. Group creators credit goes to New York Art Gallery at 411 N. Sixth St. Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Postcard of Oscar Wellington Stocker with an unidentified man and a dog, circa early 1900s

Date

Unknown year in the century of the 1900s

Archival Collection

Description

A postcard of Oscar Wellington Stocker with an unidentified man and a dog.

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Photograph of Bill Tomiyasu and children standing in his wheat field, Las Vegas, circa 1925

Date

1925 (year approximate)

Description

Bill, Kiyu, and Nanyu Tomiyasu in their wheat field looking northwest

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Wheat fields on the Tomiyasu property, west side of Pecos Road (c. 1925) Bill Tomiyasu with his sons Kiyo and Nanyu (standing in front)"

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Photograph of flooding at the Clark Avenue Railroad Underpass in Las Vegas, circa 1950

Date

1950 (year approximate)

Description

Flooding at the Clark Avenue Railroad Underpass in Las Vegas.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "Clark Underpass, Built 1924"

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Photograph of Elbert Edwards at Fort Callville, Nevada, circa 1938

Date

1938 (year approximate)

Description

Elbert Edwards standing on one of the walls of Fort Callville nearly surrounded by the rising waters of Lake Mead.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Elbert Edwards at the ruins of Fort Callville as the waters of Lake Mead rise to cover them. (ca. 1938-39)"

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Photograph of a Union Pacific Railroad crew dismantling the St. Thomas rail spur, Nevada, circa 1938

Date

1938 (year approximate)

Description

The Union Pacific Railroad sends a wrecking crew into the St. Thomas area to reclaim several miles of branch line.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Even the Union Pacific Railway hurriedly sends a wrecking crew into the area to reclaim several miles of branch line that would otherwise wind up along the lake bottom."

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Photograph of remains of early canals of the 1860s built by members of the Muddy-Cotton Mission, circa 1948

Date

1948 (year approximate)

Description

Elbert Edwards and another man standing in a dry irrigation canal in the Moapa Valley.

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten inscription on back

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Photograph of irrigated farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953

Date

1953 (year approximate)

Description

Irrigating new alfalfa on the T & T Ranch in the Amargosa Valley.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Irrigated land newly planted in alfalfa. T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, Ca. 1954."

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