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Photograph of Ruth McGonagill and an infant in front of a tent, Silverbow (Nev.), 1904
Date
1904
Archival Collection
Description
Ruth McGonagill and a neighbor's baby at tent house with pipe from milk can stove. The family lived here, in the Kawich Range, from about September 1904 through March 1905. (This camp was called Wheaton and was a couple miles up the gully from Silver Bow, Nevada)
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People in the roadside desert with tents set up: photographic slide
Date
1978-08
Archival Collection
Description
From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Car in the back of the photo near road.
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Photographic slide of tents at a camp site at Tule Springs, Nevada, October 14, 1962
Date
1962-10-14
Archival Collection
Description
Description written on the slide: "Wind storm has blown down several tents."
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Slide of government tents, near Boulder City, Nevada, April 10, 1931
Date
1931-04-10
Archival Collection
Description
A black and white image of government-issued tents set up near Boulder City for people working on Hoover Dam.
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Photograph of a survey team standing outside a tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of a survey team standing outside a tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
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Photograph of Walter Bracken on a cot in a camp tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of Walter Bracken on a cot in a camp tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
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Mess tent with unidentified people at snowy mountainous location: photographic print
Date
1880 to 1979
Archival Collection
Description
Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute
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Morgan, Jackson, and an unknown man sitting outside of a tent: photographic print
Date
1907
Archival Collection
Description
Jim Morgan, Clyde Jackson, and an unidentified man sit/stand in front of tent house in Mineral Park, 1907.
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Photograph of a carriage leaving the tent camp in Bullfrog (Nev.), 1905
Date
1905-12-01
Archival Collection
Description
Freight team leaving Bullfrog, Nevada, December 1, 1905. There is an inscription on the back of the photo: "Headed for Goldfield, 65 miles to the north. Bullfrog was founded after the discovery of gold in the area in 1904. By 1907 Rhyolite, the tent camp at the left in the picture, had become the city of the district with a population of over 6000. The boom was over by the end of 1907." There is a date stamp: 1980.
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Photograph of the first tent camp set up by the Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931
Date
1931
Archival Collection
Description
The first tent camp set up by the Bureau of Reclamation in Boulder City before the city was built.
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