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Fred Kennedy riding a gaited horse at Cathedral Canyon: photographic print

Date

1939 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.D. Wiley Family. Fred Kennedy riding a gaited horse owned by Roland Wiley at Cathedral Canyon Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada. 

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House and garden belonging to Gordon and Billie Bettles: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.A. Fishel Family (T&T Ranch). The house was occupied by Betty-Jo Boyde and her husband in 1990, was moved to the site by the Bettles from Death Valley Junction, California. The site was bare land when the Bettles moved onto it. As this picture testifies, Billie Bettle's reputation as a skilled gardener is fully justified.

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Flowering fruit trees in front of the home of Gordon and Billie Bettles: photographic print

Date

1957 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.A. Fishel Family (T&T Ranch). The base of the flagpole is visible in the right foreground.

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Close-up of Orville Knighton Reed: photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Known to all in Nye County, Nevada, as O.K. Reed. Knighton was his mother’s maiden name. Reed came to the Tonopah area in 1900.

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Roland Wiley and Elmer Bowman visit Harry and Mary Sackett, a Native American couple living on the Manse Ranch: photographic print

Date

1990 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.D. Wiley Family. 

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Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1914 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. Originally Crowell and his associates lived in dugout dwellings near the mine. The buildings in the foreground are a part of what they called "New Camp.".

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Construction of the mill at Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1914 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. The round machine near the base of the mill is a Lane Mill, which rotated and crushed the ore. All equipment and materials were moved to the building site using horses.

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Josiah Irving Crowell and his teenage son, J. Irving Crowell, Jr., in a 1917 Buick: photographic print

Date

1917 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family

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Joyce Ruud shows her steer, Dynamite, at the J.C. Fair in Las Vegas: photographic print

Date

1970 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.B. Ruud Family. The sign on the steer says, "PAHRUMP VALLEY 4-H". It also shows the sign that represents the 4-H Youth Development Program. 

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Stanley Ford and his new six-cylinder Chevrolet truck: photographic print

Date

1931 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.E. Ford Family. Ford was in the trucking business in the Los Angeles area. 

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