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The first Mormon Latter Day Saints chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1999 (year approximate)

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). Pictured is the first LDS (Mormon) chapel in Las Vegas. Construction was begun in 1924 & completed in 1925. The chapel was located on the northwest corner of 6th & Carson streets. It is presently located on Eastern near Washington (in L.V.) at which place this photo was taken.

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Photograph of women on porch steps, Goodsprings (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Archival Collection

Description

Group photo of women family and friends. Written on the back of the photograph, "back sitting left to right: Mrs. G. Homer Black, Miss Madge Henderson (niece of Jean Fayle), Mrs. G.A. Jean Fayle (baby?), unknown, unknown. Standing left to right: unknown, Mrs. Frank G. Florence Doherty (Goodsprings Gazette), unknown, unknown, Mrs. Lawrence J. Tusnet, Mrs. Roy W. Moore, unknown, unknown, Mrs. Harvey Hardy, Mrs. Jack Frederickson, Mrs. Janee Ashbough."

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Water from the Colorado River

Date

1931

Description

Water from the Colorado River

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Photograph of Bill Bishop and others camping on Las Vegas Creek, 1880 - early 1900s

Date

1880 to 1925

Description

Bill Bishop, bottom right, and others camping below Bonanza on the Las Vegas Creek. One of the men may be Johnnie Horden.

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Irma McGonagill Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00246

Abstract

The Irma McGonagill Photograph Collection (1870-1925) consists of thirty black-and-white photographic prints, ten postcards, and fourteen photographic negatives showing Irma McGonagill and her family in Tonopah, Nevada during the mining boom. The images depict the town of Tonopah, mines around the Tonopah area, homes in Tonopah, and the McGonagill family.

Archival Collection

Photograph of Mack and Will Foster, Goldfield (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Mack and Will Foster, uncles of George Byron Foster. Handwritten description provided on a separate piece of paper: "Figures identified in reverse. Should be Mack and Will. Lived at Berlin not far from my home in Tonopah. Brothers very close all their lives. Lived into their 80s. Died within months of each other. Mack the eldest. Both small men. When Mack was in his late sixties or early seventies he went to visit Toxine's (sp?), a house of prostitution, when Tonopah still had a red light district, ca 1952. Mack carried brass knuckles and a sawed off revolver. He was a rough character. Died about 1962. Both miners. Had brother, George, and a sister." Also hand written: (Photographer *A Allen ___*, Goldfield, Nev.)

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William Hillman Shockley: photographic print

Date

1908

Description

Portrait of William Hillman Shockley in Tonopah, 1908.

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Rex Bell with four unidentified "Rawhide" cast members: photographic print

Date

1880 to 1979

Description

Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute. Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) center with four unidentified people at an unknown location. Stamped on back: "Las Vegas News Bureau, Las Vegas, Nev. - P.O. Box 28,  Photographers Don English, Joe Buck, Jerry Abbott, Milt Palmer."

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