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Correspondence, F.R. McNamee to H.E. George
Date
1905-07
1905-09
Archival Collection
Description
This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)
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Photograph of Court Rock, Panaca (Nev.), circa 1916
Date
1915 to 1917
Archival Collection
Description
Transcription with photograph: "Panaca [Nevada] jail in one of these caves, iron grill gates served as doors." Pioche desperados were put in Court Rock and held captive until it was time for them to make an appearance before court.
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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George
Date
1921-08
Archival Collection
Description
This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)
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Wilkes, Roscoe
Roscoe Wilkes was born in Bonanza, Colorado on Janruary 25, 1918. He moved with his family to Pioche, Nevada in 1927. He was a lead zinc miner, a grade school teacher, and a PBX operator before he enlisted in the military during World War II. Wilkes was a prisoner of war in Romania. He got a law degree and went back to Pioche where he was a district attorney and later a judge.
Person
Photograph of dam workers and miners, Tonopah (Nev.), circa 1933
Date
1932 to 1934
Archival Collection
Description
Conflicting descriptions of this image. One reads: "Men outside tents they lived in while waiting for jobs on the Dam." Another by W. A. Davis reads "Three miners out near Tonopah on road to Pioche... Man on the left named 'Jim'."
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Photograph of William ("Gunlock Bill") Hamblin, circa late 1800s - early 1900s
Date
1870 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A portrait of William "Gunlock Bill" Hamblin, the brother of Jacob Hamblin. William was one of the First missionaries to Las Vegas. He settled Gunlock, Utah, and was an early Settler in Clover Valley, Nevada. He also discovered the Pioche Mines.
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Transcript of interview with Gertrude Anne Moore by Mamie Beuttner, February 21, 1975
Date
1975-02-21
Archival Collection
Description
General Nevada history, Searchlight, Anderson's Dairy, Rancho Grande Creamery, Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam), working on Fremont Street, Helldorado, Stewart Ranch, flooding, Mormons and religion, Hunt Family of Bunkerville, Atomic Testing, Carole Lombard plane crash, Pioche, Goodsprings, WWII, Ghost Towns, El Rancho.
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Photograph of Chambers of Commerce, Cathedral George, Nevada, 1924
Date
1924
Archival Collection
Description
Description provided with image: "In the fall of 1924 representatives of the Chambers of Commerce of Panaca, Pioche, and Caliente met with Governor James G. Scrugham to request the establishment of a state park at Cathedral Gorge. L-R: Elbert Edwards, Nephi Edwards, E. C. D. Marriage, Willard Smith, William H. Edwards, A. L. Scott, Herman Frudenthal, Governor Scrugham, Earl Grotto, Arthur V. Lee, George L. Edwards, Col. Thomas Miller, and Ernest T. Gentry. (Photo by Dr. Mark R. Harrington). Boulder Dam."
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