Several men pose outside of a tarpaulin-covered wood and tin structure near the Gold Reef Mine in Goldfield, Nevada. Signs on the front of the building say "Gold Reef," "Restaurant," "Saloon," "Groceries." Some of the men carry rifles or guns. A woman and man are behind an open service window in the front of the building. Caption: "Gold Reef. The first store. Oct. 11, 1908."

Belle Butler (wife of Jim Butler, lower left), and Daisy Rendall (later married to Nevada Governor Tasker Oddie), pose outside of adits at a mine near Tonopah, Nevada where Jim Butler first discovered gold.

A group of schoolchildren pose with their teacher, Clarice Bateman (center of back row), in front the elementary schoolhouse in Tonopah, Nevada. The woman to the left of Bateman is unidentified.

A group of schoolchildren pose with their teacher, Clarice Bateman (at left), in front the elementary schoolhouse in Tonopah, Nevada. An unidentified woman is seen in the second row. An African-American boy and and Native American Indian boy are seen in the back row; another Native American Indian boy is seen in the front row at the right.

L-R: Mary Manning, Las Vegas Sun reporter, with Bill Wright, general manager of the Las Vegas Review-Journal at a reception for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' University Library Society, Las Vegas, Nevada.

L-R: Las Vegas civic leader Ruth Vogliotti, artist and civic leader Flo Mlynarczyk and education advocate Blanche Zucker at a University of Nevada, Las Vegas Library Society reception.

L-R: an unidentified woman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries employee Deanna Stefanelli, Las Vegas civic leaders Ruth Vogliotti and Helen Mortenson at a University Library Society reception, University of Las Vegas, Nevada.