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Photograph of people on mine cart, Death Valley Junction (Calif.), 1910
Date
1910
Archival Collection
Description
Four people stand and sit on a mine cart. Caption with image reads: "Joyriding, Death Valley Junction, 1910"
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Photograph of mill housing, Death Valley Junction (Calif.), 1918
Date
1918
Archival Collection
Description
Mill Company housing at Death Valley Junction. Inscription at the top of the image reads: "Death Valley Junction - looking north - 1918. Nine unpainted structures lined a single street facing the mill."
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Photograph of train passing through town, Ludlow (Calif.), 1910
Date
1910
Archival Collection
Description
View of Ludlow, California as a train passes through, 1910. The village is small with all buildings visible from this vantage point.
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Photograph of mail carrier train, (Nev.), 1926-1940
Date
1926 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
Small train is parked along tracks in the middle of the Nevada desert. Flowers and weeds grow along the tracks, and the side of the railroad car reads: "BAGGAGE U.S. MAIL." Inscription with image says: "Gas-mechanical passenger-baggage-mail car on service T&T RR, 1926-1940."
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Photograph of a train, (Nev.), circa 1899
Date
1898 to 1900
Archival Collection
Description
Image of a train with steam coming out of the smokestack. Inscription reads: "Senator Clark's first train."
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Photograph of Death Valley Mill, Death Valley Junction (Calif.), early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1920
Archival Collection
Description
Machines and engines at the Death Valley Mill.
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Photograph of chemical lab, Death Valley Junction (Calif.), 1915
Date
1915
Archival Collection
Description
Unidentified man sits at the doorstep of a small building with several windows, identified as a "chemical lab at Death Valley Junction" in 1915.
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Photograph of Pacific Coast Borax Mill, Death Valley Junction (Calif.), 1928
Date
1928
Archival Collection
Description
Pacific Coast Borax Company's mill near the end of its operations in 1928.
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Postcard of the ghost town of Rhyolite (Nev.), 1934-1952
Date
1934 to 1952
Archival Collection
Description
The postcard shows a car that looks like it was abandoned with a casino in the background. The postcard reads, "130,000 Dollar Railroad Station-without a railroad, at the famous ghost town of Rhyolite."
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Photograph of railroad engine carrying lumber, Lake Tahoe (Nev.), 1880-1920
Date
1880 to 1920
Archival Collection
Description
Large locomotive engine sits behind a chain-link fence. Inscription with photo reads: "Glenbrook #1 engine gained fame hauling lumber from the sawmills at Lake Tahoe to the divide at Spooner Summit where it was flumed down and timber the mines at Virginia City."
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