Miners sit along the side of a mountain near a mine site in Nevada. Conflicting descriptions believe this to be Meyers Mine near Hoover Dam or the foothills of the Sheep Mountains next to a salt mine.
A group of miners in Tonopah, Nevada. From left to right, the men are identified as: 1) unidentified; 2) Ed Slavin; 3) Blair Meldrum; 4) Frank LeFevre; 5) David Dunsdon; 6) Kendall; 7) Mitch Vuich; 8) Nick Banovich; and 9) unidentified. The seated man is also unidentified.
C. N. Cross' mining claim of Solitary Mine in Clark County Nevada on January 26, 1929. Notes with photo read, "Claim on butte that now is an island in the lake. Wint has the claim papers. Called Solitary Mine - Clark County, Nev, 24th Jan., 1929. Wint, Emory's son, Ayers daughter, and others would ride burros up to this location and cook hot dogs and then return by moonlight."
Stagecoaches and miners hustle down MainStreet in booming Goldfield, Nevada in front of the Hotel Esmeralda. Type at the bottom says: "When Goldfield was envy of mining world." Inscription on the back reads: "Goldfield, Nev., about 1904, looking north on Main St., with Columbia Mt. looming in the background. Peak boom population was 30,000, with fabulous gold strikes yielding $120,000,000." Print from Edwin Scofield Giles' collection
Photograph album of Charles P. "Pop" and Delphine Squires, founding residents of Las Vegas. For more information about the Squires manuscripts and photographs held in UNLV Special Collections, please see: http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/special_collections_40th_anniversary/squires_papers_exhibit.html