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Photograph of the hillside and surface stopes at the Wall Street Mine, Eldorado Canyon (Nev.), 1900-1925

Description

Inscription on back reads: Room and pillar surface stopes stopes on the Wall Street Mine-which produced $1,5000,000.00 in gold alone from about 80 feet depth. El Dorado Canyon Clark County Nevada

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Cercle des Capucines, dinner menu, May 26, 1900

Date

1900-05-26

Archival Collection

Description

Note: Handwritten menu. Features illustration of five women and a cherub figure, signed by Gaston Linden, 1894. One woman is painting or drawing; another is playing a stringed instrument; another is raising a glass in a toast; another, holding an armful of books, appears to be writing the menu with a quill; a nude woman holds a cornucopia Restaurant: Cercle de Capucines Location: Paris, France

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Photograph of a covered wagon travelling through a narrow rock formation, Eldorado Canyon (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: The Narrows, El Dorado Canyon.

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Photograph of a man and boy at a desk in the Delamar Lode newspaper office, Delamar (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1898 to 1906

Description

The Delamar Lode newspaper printing office during the letterpress era. Cast metal sorts, used to construct words for the paper, are in the background at the right. Examples of articles are posted on the wall in the upper left corner. This photograph is attributed to the Fred Steen Collection in Stanley W. Paher's book, Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps, page 300. Mr. Steen, who lived in Delamar around the time of this photograph, moved with his family to Tonopah where he later worked as a mining bookkeeper.

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Photograph of the Southwestern Mining Company's Quartz Mill along the river, Eldorado Canyon (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Annotated: ? G.B. Waterhouse Mills N.W. [bottom left], Far shoreline green with willows. [bottom left corner], probably W.S. Mills [bottom center]
Caption: Southwestern Mining Co. Quartz Mill.
Site Name: Southwestern Mining Company Quartz Mill (Clark County, Nev.)

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Photograph of the company store, Millmen's cabins, and the Weather Observation Station, Eldorado Canyon (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: Millmen's cabins, S.W.M. Co. store (adobe), Wather Observation Station, Road to the house [with arrow point to the right]

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Photograph of two men with dogs on the porch at Las Vegas Ranch, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Site Name: Las Vegas Ranch (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Photograph of the Las Vegas train depot at the end of Fremont Street, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Site Name: Las Vegas Passenger Station (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Photograph of a house built by William C. Browne featuring the first indoor bathroom in Pioche, (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Built by William C. Browne, first indoor bathroom in Pioche. Theresa Eisenmann, born 1871. Frank Eisenmann born Sept 21, 1873, 3rd white boy in Pioche; Mill 5 works in background

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Photograph of two women standing in front of locomotive number 3649, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Archival Collection

Description

Two women (possibly Mrs. Owen Phaff and her mother) stand in front of San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company locomotive number 3649 in Las Vegas, approximate date 1912.

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