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Photograph of a bath house in a tent near the Las Vegas, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Archival Collection

Description

Date of photograph estimated between 1904-1905. View of a bath house inside a tent on Las Vegas Creek in Las Vegas Ranch. "...water diverted from Las Vegas Creek ran through the sawed board in the foreground and into a wooden tub sunk in the ground. A plank is provided to step on while drying off, and thick matting covers the bare earth. Canvas curtains provided privacy" (p. [88], "Las Vegas, as it began--and grew" by Stanley W. Paher).

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Photograph of students on the steps of the Las Vegas High School, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Schoolchildren on the steps of Las Vegas High School. Many students were children of employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company. People identified in the photo: Barbara Bell, Enis Liddy, Bob Robbins, Art Mosbach, Tommy Loan, Glenn Trout, Dewey Higbee, Dave Kramer, Otto "Kelly Westlake", Ruth Schuyler, Elsie Goodrich, Iona Jurben. Date estimated between 1917-1918.
Site Name: Las Vegas High School (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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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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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 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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Noble family residence, menu, March 12, 1900

Date

1900-03-12

Archival Collection

Description

Restaurant: Noble Family residence

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Café Royal, lunch menu, June 14, 1900

Date

1900-06-14

Archival Collection

Description

Restaurant: Café Royal Location: 68 Regent Street, W., London, England

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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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