From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). The station itself is visible beside the road just above the trees. In those days most small airplanes landed on the highway, but some contractors were working in the area and one had a plane that was too large to land on the highway, so a small airstrip was constructed for landing, visible to the right of Carver’s Station.

Aerial view of Frenchman Mountain, with the Las Vegas Valley behind it.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from handwritten notes on back: "View SW"

Aerial view of Las Vegas in 1930.

Transcribed Notes: Notes on photo sleeve: 'Shows stockyards and car shops. Creek is overflow from UP artesian well. Site of earliest ranch in area. Creek had mosquito minnows in it - a native species. Only source of water for Las Vegas. Water carried in a 20-24'' wooden pipe.' (James J. Hester, from W.A. Davis, photographer. April 1992)