The Squires Family Photographs document the Squires Family and the development of the Las Vegas Valley in Nevada from approximately 1860 to 1980, with a bulk of the photographs depicting people and events from 1900 to 1950. The photographs depict the Euro-American settlement and growth of Las Vegas, Nevada; traveling and exploration of Southern Nevada and the Southwestern United States; the Hoover (Boulder) Dam and the Colorado River; clubs and social groups; and the Squires Family, especially prominent newspaper editor and publisher Charles Pember (C. P. or “Pop”) Squires, Delphine “Mom” Anderson Squires, and their children.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.C. Lofthouse-Berg Families (Round Mountain). View of a mining operation believed to be located somewhere in central Nevada, although the exact location and date are unknown. Possibly circa 1900s-1930s.
Scale [ca. 1:2,400] 1 in.=200 feet1 map ; col. ; 20 x 16 cm ; Eureka Con. Mine is in the Eureka Mining District in Nevada ; "Juliue Bien & Co. lith." ; "U.S. Geological Survey. Annual report 1883, pl. XXXIII"--Upper right margin ; Library's copy has "Nev." printed in pencil in upper right corner
Scale [ca. 1:2,400] 1 in. to 200 feet ; 1 map ; 75 x 102 cm; Includes locations of mines and their main shafts and drawings of the hoists of the Tonopah Extension, Golden Anchor and the Red Rock Consolidated ; Photocopy. [United States : s.n., 198-?]
Rev. ed. ; Scale [ca. 1:10,800]. 1 inch to 900 feet ; 1 map : col. ; 76 x 102 cm., folded in cover to 21 x 11 cm ; Relief shown by hachures ; Cover title: Map of Tonopah, Gold Mountain and other adjacent mining districts, Nye and Esmeralda Counties ; Insets: Ray Mining District, vicinity map of Tonopah Mining District, Utopia Mining District, Tokop Mining District, Weepah Mining District, East Klondike Mining District, Gold Mountain, Tonopah Mining District and Red Mountain ; "Photo-lith. Britton & Rey, S.F." ; Includes advertisements