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Photograph of people, circa late 1800s to early 1900s
Date
1880 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
A group of unidentified people with a horse and a dog in the desert.
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Photograph of people picnicking, circa early 1900s
Date
1920 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
Handwritten inscription given with photograph: "Picnic on the desert. Grandmother Rockwell on the right pouring coffee."
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Photograph of people picnicking, circa early 1900s
Date
1920 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
People picnicking in the desert. Handwritten inscription given with photograph: "Aunt Alma, Earl, Mother, Floyd, Bessie, [Alley?] Lawson."
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Photograph album 5, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1860s-1910s
Date
1860 to 1910
1905 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
Album is bound in embossed leather with gilt decoration and has gilt and gauffered page edges.
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Photograph album 6, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1860s-1910s
Date
1860 to 1910
1905 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
Cover is bound in velvet with raised metal decorations and inset crescent-shaped mirror. Photographs on page 22 are tintypes.
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Photograph album 2, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1860s-1910s
Date
1860 to 1910
1905 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
Decorative advertising for M. de ver Westcott Photographers, Cortland, N.Y. appears on some photographs.
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Photograph album 3, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1860s-1910s
Date
1860 to 1910
1905 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
Cover is embossed with the title "Our Friends" and title page says "The Primrose Album."
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Photograph album 4, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1860s-1910s
Date
1860 to 1910
1905 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
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.
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Photograph of Lemuel and Johana Compton, circa 1890s
Date
1890 to 1899
Archival Collection
Description
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.
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Postcard of people at the Florence Mine, Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1900s
Date
1900 to 1909
Archival Collection
Description
Color postcard of several people posing by sacks or ore outside of the Florence Mine in Goldfield, Nevada.
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