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Pickhandle Gulch (Nev.) buildings: photographic print

Date

1880 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)

Description

Pickhandle Gulch, Candelaria, NV. Buildings from left to right are identified as: Assay office, Shockley house.

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Candelaria (Nev.): photographic print

Date

1880 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)

Description

The mining town of Candelaria, NV.

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Pickhandle Gulch mining structures and Shockley house: photographic print

Date

1880 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)

Description

Mining structures and equipment in Pickhandle Gulch, Nevada. Shockley house can be seen in the distance.

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Sodaville Mill loading dock: photographic print

Date

1880 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)

Description

Sodaville Mill, platform loading dock, Mt. Diablo M&M Co.

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Belleville (Nev.) mill: photographic print

Date

1880 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)

Description

"Belleville, Nevada; Mill or smelter; 2 flatcars are loaded with wood. Buildings in town buildings can be seen in the middle ground.

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Photograph of the bridge over Las Vegas Creek, circa 1905

Date

1905 (year approximate)

Description

Bridge over Las Vegas Creek.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "This was east of the house we lived in. M. C."

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Postcard showing Searchlight, Nevada, circa 1930s

Date

1930 to 1939

Archival Collection

Description

The view of a street passing through Searchlight, Nevada. Formed in 1897, Searchlight is an old boomtown that was made popular when George Frederick Colton discovered gold at the location where the town is now built. Different shops and automobiles line the sides of the dirt road, while mountains and shrubs lie in the distance. Stores that reside on the left side of the street include The Big Store grocery and supply store, Arrowhead Garage, and a cafe. Buildings such as a garage and the Nevada Hotel stand on the opposing right side of the street. Transcribed onto the bottom of the postcard: "Searchlight, Nevada." The Frasher's Foto logo is also printed onto the bottom right corner.

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Young girl posed next to baby doll in stroller in front of a fence on Christmas morning: photographic print

Date

1931-01-08

Description

From the Hazel Baker Denton Photograph Collection (PH-00312). On the back it reads, "Miss Betty Jeanne Denton- Xmas morning 1925."

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Grant Snow oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01727

Abstract

Oral history interview with Grant Snow conducted by Elizabeth Nelson Patrick on November 16, 1982 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Snow discusses arriving to St. Thomas, Nevada in 1925. Snow also describes teaching in St. Thomas, the significance of mines to the region, and increase of local businesses.

Archival Collection