Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 451 - 460 of 7532

Photograph of Mack and Will Foster, Goldfield (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Mack and Will Foster, uncles of George Byron Foster. Handwritten description provided on a separate piece of paper: "Figures identified in reverse. Should be Mack and Will. Lived at Berlin not far from my home in Tonopah. Brothers very close all their lives. Lived into their 80s. Died within months of each other. Mack the eldest. Both small men. When Mack was in his late sixties or early seventies he went to visit Toxine's (sp?), a house of prostitution, when Tonopah still had a red light district, ca 1952. Mack carried brass knuckles and a sawed off revolver. He was a rough character. Died about 1962. Both miners. Had brother, George, and a sister." Also hand written: (Photographer *A Allen ___*, Goldfield, Nev.)

Image

Postcard showing the robbery of a United States Mail coach en route to Bullfrog, Nevada, circa 1900s-1910s

Date

1900 to 1919

Description

A picture postcard showing the robbery of a U.S. Mail coach in the mountains of Nevada. Captions:"A hold up. U.S. mail coach en route to Bullfrog, Nev.;" "Larson Pho. no. 333;" "Denver Eng. Co. "

Image

Photograph of Sam Gay, circa mid 1900s

Date

1940 to 1969

Description

Portrait of Sam Gay.

Image

Photograph of Elwood Mead, circa mid 1900s

Date

1940 to 1969

Description

An up close view of Elwood Mead.

Image

Photograph of O'Brien, circa early to mid 1900s

Date

1900 to 1959

Description

A portrait of (?) O'Brien, a dentist, possibly in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Image

Postcard of a Post Office surrounded by snow, Manhattan (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1910

Description

Photographic postcard of the Manhattan Post office blanketed in snow. The photo was taken in the early 1900s.

Image

Photograph of Oscar Stocker, circa 1890s-1900s

Date

1890 to 1919

Archival Collection

Description

A stereoscopic portrait of Oscar Stocker.

Image

Photograph of men outdoors, circa early 1900s

Date

1905 to 1939

Description

A group of unidentified men gathered together outside an unidentifiable location.

Image

Photograph of Isaac Polhamus, circa late 1900s

Date

1870 to 1890

Description

Black and white photograph of Isaac Polhamus.

Image

Photograph of the Rockwell's car, circa early 1900s

Date

1910 to 1939

Description

Rockwell's wrecked car.

Image