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Photograph of mine shaft, Sheep Mountain Range, 1931
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Archival Collection
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Fayle Family Photographs
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The Fayle Family Photographs depict the Fayle Family in Southern Nevada and California from 1888 to 1990. The photographs primarily include family photographs of Leonard Fayle, Anna Louise Trapnell Fayle, Leonard Fayle’s parents George Fayle and Jean Henderson Fayle, Leonard Fayle’s siblings George Arthur Fayle and Jean Nevada Fayle, and Leonard and Anna Fayle’s children Jane and Edward Fayle. The photographs also depict the Nevada towns of Las Vegas, Goodsprings, and Jean, including railroad operations, mining, milling, and hauling freight. The collection includes a leather-bound photograph album containing images of the Fayle Family and the Yount Family.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Mohawk Mine, Goldfield (Nev.), 1906
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of C. D. Baker at a mining claim, 1920s-1930s
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Archival Collection
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Clyde Rufus Terrell at his mine above Eden Creek: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.D. Terrell Family. Probably taken at the South Gold Mine. Note the homemade wheelbarrow, little buckets for holding ore, and the mortar at the side of the wheelbarrow.
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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George Clayton
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of miner and mine owner, Sheep Mountain Range, 1931
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of mine entrance, Sheep Mountain, 1931
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Archival Collection
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South Gold Hill above Eden Creek in the Kawich Mountains: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.D. Terrell Family. High-grade gold ore was found just below the top of the hill and a shaft was sunk. Note the windlass hoist, cranked by hand, and the pipe going down to the shaft to draw air into the hole for ventilation.
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Photograph of mine, Goldfield (Nev.), 1905
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Archival Collection
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