Black and white image of fifth and sixth grade students at a school located on Second and Lewis Streets. Back row, from left to right: Teacher (Mrs. Schultz), Mary Bishop, Ernest Lake, Micky Black, Frank Black, unidentified, Nannie Rhodes, and Alice Lake. Middle row, from left to right: Jessie Bishop, Edith Alpin, Julia Westlake, Willa Cotrell, unidentified, Olive Lake, unidenified, unidentified. Front row, from left to right: unidentified, Leland Ronnow, Harold Clayton, unidentified, Walter Manuel, unidentified.
Nevada State Retired Teachers Association Collection on the book Inside Nevada Schools: A Challenge for the Future (1970-1976) contains the finished book and the research conducted for the completion of the project. Included are oral interviews, articles, notes, copies of photographs, and organizational plans.
School children and teachers pose outside a one-story wooden building identified as "the only school in Las Vegas at the time". The school building was moved by railroad from Rhyolite to the corner of 2nd Street and Lewis in Las Vegas. People identified in the photo are, beginning with front row, left to right: #1: sister of #5 (name unknown); #5: sister of #1 (name unknown); #7: Kessler ( Ernie May's sister); #9: Otto "Kelly" Westlake; #10: Ernie May; #29 Older son of Tom Squires; #38: Tom Lake; #40: Mrs. Palmer (teacher who ran the high school); #41: Mrs. Bartlet (teacher who ran the grammar school). Approximate date between 1905-1910.
Black and white image of several teachers from Las Vegas schools, including the following (from right to left): Olive Lake, Rose Ullom, Cora Maeble, Dora Lee, and Maude Williams.