I.M. Poff's New York Store baseball team (L-R, Top row) Bill Thomas, Bilt Mitchell, "Curly" Fennel - Captain of ball club, "Tubby" Sears (L-R Bottom row) Walter McCormic, Oswald, Jack Seller "Cocky" Voris John Kramer, Harley Harmon Shores, I.M. Poff.
New York Store baseball team. Top: Walter Houek (pitcher), Ben Emerick (pitcher), Frank Black, Harry Beale, Floyd Alter (left fielder), Curly Fennel (Captain, 1st base) Sears (2nd base). Bottom row: McCormick (right fielder and pitcher), Oswald, Jack Seller, Cocky Vorhis (short stop), John kramer (manager), Harley Harmon (sports writer), Shores (catcher).
Cover is bound in velvet with embroidered flowers. Decorative advertising for P. J. Ward Photographers, Horse Heads, N.Y.; Gates Brothers Photographers, Shelton's Block, Watkins, N.Y.; J. E. Larkin Photographers, Elmira, N.Y.; and Mills & Son Photographers, Main Street, Penn Yan, N.Y. appears on back of some photographs. Two photographs have hand-cancelled U.S. Internal Revenue Service proprietary stamps on their backs.
Eight men identified as miners pose with a dog outside of the Rawhide Consolidated Mines Company office, Rawhide, Nevada. Caption: "Original miners in Rawhide, Nevada."
Portrait of Lemuel (Lem) and Johana Compton. Handwritten on back of photo: "Had a ranch in Nye County at Peavine, in the early nineties. Both of these people are buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Austin [in Lander County, Nevada]. Present owner of the Peavine ranch now Charley Keough, nephew of Mrs. Compton. Mrs. Johana Compton in the late nineties or 1900 used to deliver potatoes from Peavine Ranch to [Y?illegible] Canyon and Berlin, Grantsville [both in Nye County] which they raised at Peavine Ranch." Johana Compton, a former Union Army nurse, died whle trying to save the Peavine Ranch from fire in November 1900.