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Photograph of Harriet Schaller, Bob Miller, Colette Saltz and Chris Hall at a WE CAN benefit, Union Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1984
Date
1984
Archival Collection
Description
Harriet Schaller (widow of Nevada politcal strategist and writer Chris Schaller), Bob Miller (Governor of Nevada from 1989-1999), Colette Saltz and Chris Hall at the WE CAN "Love Ya Child" benefit at the Union Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas. WE CAN (Working to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect) was a chapter of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse (later Prevent Child Abuse America). Site Name: Union Plaza Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.) Street Address: 1 South Main Street
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Postcard of prospectors, Goldfield, Nevada, 1907
Date
1907-03-05
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard of prospectors in Goldfield. The address is written on the back with a brief letter written next to the photograph on the front.
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Photograph of Main Street, Goldfield, Nevada, 1905
Date
1905
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard of Main Street in Goldfield.
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Postcard of a Squaw Race, Ely, Nevada, 1909
Date
1909
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard of a "Squaw Race in Ely, Nevada" 1909. An address is written on the back.
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Postcard showing the robbery of a United States Mail coach en route to Bullfrog, Nevada, circa 1900s-1910s
Date
1900 to 1919
Archival Collection
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. "
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Postcard of three men outside of Mark Twain's cabin, Aurora, Nevada, circa 1870s-1880s
Date
1870 to 1889
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard of three unidentified men outside of the cabin in the mining town of Aurora, Nevada where Mark Twain wrote "Roughing It." Caption: "Mark Twain's cabin, Aurora, Nevada. The book 'Roughing It' was written in this cabin. Photo by G.S."
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Photograph of a man and woman outside of the railroad depot in Reno, Nevada, 1915
Date
1915
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard of an unidentified man and woman posing outside of the Reno, Nevada railroad station. Other people are seen in the background.
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Postcard with four scenes from central Nevada, circa 1900s-1910s
Date
1900 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard with four photographs: the" first [railroad] engine to run over the Sierras;" "Mark Twain 1865 in Aurora, Nevada;" "Mark Twain's cabin in Aurora, Nevada;" the "first house in Genoa, Nevada." Twain is seen with a group of unidentified men.
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Postcard of Weepah, Nevada, desert and gambling scenes, Death Valley Scotty, Frank Horton, Jr., and Tex Rickard, circa 1900s-1920s
Date
1900 to 1929
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard with photographs of prospectors Death Valley Scotty (Walter E. Scott) and Frank Horton [Jr.], promoter Tex Rickard, two saloon gambling scenes, a panoramic view of Weepah, Nevada in 1927, and an illustration of a coyote in the desert (captioned "The orphan of the desert").
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Postcard of scenes in central Nevada, circa 1927-1930s
Date
1927 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard with photographs with the captions "Badger hole;" "Electric Gold Mines, Weepah, Nevada;" "Crowd looking at rich strike;" "Town of Weepah, Nevada where rich gold strike was made;" "Frank Horton, Geo. Wingfield;" "The rich strike;" "Traynor and Horton, boys who found the gold." Leonard Traynor and Frank Horton, Jr., found gold ore in Weepah, Nevada in early spring 1927; George Wingfield was a prominent banker and miner in Nevada in the early decades of the twentieth century. The "badger hole" was where Traynor and Horton reportedly made their first gold strike.
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