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Pontoon from the dredge constructed at Manhattan: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.D. Terrell Family. A pontoon from the dredge constructed at Manhattan, Nevada, prior to World War II. A large hole was dug to impound water. Water was then piped to Manhattan from across the valley at Peavine and fed into the hole. The superstructure was constructed atop the pontoon, and the dredge, with buskets in front, scooped the gravel out as it moved from the lower end of the gulch to the upper end, about 1-1/2 miles. The gravel that was scooped out was processed for gold on the dredge and fed out back of the dredge when processing was completed.
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Advertisement, Mount Oddie Mine, 1914
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Newspaper, The San Francisco Call, May 23, 1905
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Shockley, W.H., 1855-1925
William Hillman Shockley was born on September 18, 1855 in New Bedford, Massachusetts to William, a whaling captain, and Sarah Shockley. He had two younger brothers, George and Walter. Shockley graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1875. He worked for a time in Florida and California before moving to Nevada.
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Garside, Sherwin Frank, 1915-1986
Journalist and photographer Sherwin "Scoop" Garside was born in Tonopah, Nevada in 1915. He was the son of Frank Garside, an owner of many newspapers, including the Las Vegas Review, which became the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1929. Sherwin Garside moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when his father purchased the Las Vegas Review in 1926. Garside graduated from Las Vegas High School, where he earned the nickname "Scoop" writing for the school newspaper, The Desert Breeze.
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View of Virginia City, Nevada: photographic print
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