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Jean Carver Duhme's first new car, a 1955 Mercury: photographic print

Date

1905 (year uncertain) to 1980 (year uncertain)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). She purchased the car from Red Douglas at Red Douglas’s Ford Dealership in Tonopah.

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Gerald Miller Carver at beach in Southern California: photographic print

Date

1951

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Gerald Carver was born in Winnemucca, Nevada, but the courthouse in Winnemucca later burned down, and he thus had no official birth certificate.

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Jean Carver Duhme working at the grill at Carver's Station: photographic print

Date

1905 (year uncertain) to 1980 (year uncertain)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Items from the Carver’s menu are listed on a sign on the wall in the upper right-hand corner. 

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Roger Berg, Wine Glass Ranch: photographic print

Date

1947 to 1948

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Roger Berg (1946-2011), pictured at the Wine Glass Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, when it was owned by Pete and Mary Rogers.

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Aerial view of Carver's Station: photographic print

Date

1965 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Aerial view of Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, looking east before the garage was constructed to the left of the station prior to 1965. 

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Negative: Irrigation reservoir on old Turner Ranch, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1905

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). The reservoir was fed by an artesian well located to the left of the photograph. The well was 500 feet deep, and flows 90 gallons a minute without pumping.

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Gerald and Jean Carver Duhme with son Dick Carver: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). They are with the family dog beside an airplane belonging to Ken Arnold of Boise, Idaho, who operated the Great Western Fire Protection Service. 

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Gerald Miller Carver, Carver's Station, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1950

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Gerald moved to the Smoky Valley after purchasing the Carver ranch. Formerly, he had been a rancher near Glendale, California, northeast of Bakersfield, California.

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Looking west toward Devil's Canyon from the ranch house on the Carver Ranch, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1948

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). The Toiyabe Mountains is in the background. Not long after this photograph was taken, the Carvers constructed what was called Carver’s Rainbow Ranch, which later became known as Carver’s Station, in the foreground.

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Some of the Carver Family in Jean Carver Duhme's home, Carvers's Station: photographic print

Date

1974 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Left to right: Dick Carver, Jean Carver Duhme, Gary Carver in Jean Carver Duhme’s home, Carvers’s Station. 

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