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Film transparency of Martha Kramer and Helen Bunker, presumably in Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1939

Description

Black and white image of Martha Kramer and Helen Bunker sitting on a fence, most likely in Las Vegas, Nevada. Note: Image is from a family photo album that was loaned to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and returned to the family on July 17, 1984.

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Film transparancy of Olive Lake-Eglington's family's home, Las Vegas, circa early 1900

Date

1900 to 1939

Description

Black and white image of Olive Lake-Eglington's family's home with the following handwritten description: "Our Home - 128 N. 3rd St." Note: Image is from a family photo album that was loaned to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and returned to the family on July 17, 1984.

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Film transparency of Mr. McGriff and family at McGriff Ranch, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1939

Description

Black and white image of Mr. and Mrs. McGriff and his mother in front of a building on McGriff Ranch with the accompanying description: "At McGriff Ranch South of [Las] Vegas where I lived while teaching at Paradise Valley."

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Film transparency of Olive Lake at well on McGriff Ranch, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1939

Description

Black and white image of a woman with the following handwritten description: "Olive Lake at McGriffs Well."

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Photograph of "Jane Beatty" petting a horse, Ash Meadows, Pahrump, Nevada, circa 1900s-1910s

Date

1900 to 1919

Archival Collection

Description

Jane Beatty petting horse, young boy looking at camera. The photograph was taken in possibly Ash Meadows, Pahrump, or Oasis Valley, Nevada.

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Postcard of Julia Bulette and John Millain scene, Virginia City, Nevada, 1867 - early 1900s

Date

1867 to 1939

Description

An artist's depiction of Julia Bulette's theft and murder by John Millain. The caption on the front of the card reads: "Julia Bulette; Murdered for her Jewels by John Millain, 1887. J. M hung in 1868." A lengthy description printed on the back of the card reads: "Julia Bulette came to Virginia City while it was still a raw camp, and was soon among its best known figures. Reputedly a French Creole from New Orleans, tall, dark, lithe and witty, she was no ordinary lady of the line. Her secret charities were innumerable, her public services many, and her entertainments memorable for both cuisine and conversation. During the deadly black-water plague of 1861, she made her house into a hospital, nursed the stricken miners, and pawned her belongings to help their families. She was chosen an honorary member of Engine Company Number 1, but, not content with honorary status, attended the fires, worked a stirrup pump, and served refreshments to the Company afterwards. She was not one to seek obscurity or tolerate condescension. In the flush years of the first boom, she paraded C Street daily in a coach with four aces fanned upon the door, and sat nightly in her own box at the opera house, with a sable cape across her shoulders. When the ladies of the upper city sought to confine her activities, she retaliated by crashing their parties and making them her own. As a result, her violent death during the night of January 20, 1867, precipitated a cold war of the sexes. When her funeral procession, long, entirely masculine, and led by a band playing a dead-march, moved out B Street toward Old Flowery Cemetery, the wives in the hill mansions sat behind closed doors and drawn shutters, though even those could not defend them from the sprightly, returning strains of "The Girl I Left Behind Me." And conversely, when John Millain was arrested, some months later, after selling articles recognized as Julie's, his trial by the men was something less than impartial, but he was constantly visited in prison by women who showered him with gifts and tears. That his hanging, in April of 1868, drew the largest crowd in Virginia's history to the hollow north of town where the gallows was erected, the women to the ringside seats and the men to the slopes behind them, was less a tribute to Millain himself than a result of the fact that he was dying as the murderer of Julie Bulette, more nearly a Queen of the Comstock than any of her wealthy "betters" who vied for the title. "Sazarac" Virginia City, Nevada."

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Freck Lydon, husband of Catherine Banovich-Lydon and Jack Dempsey at Tonopah's 50th Year Celebration: photographic print

Date

1950

Description

 From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.G. Miscellaneous. Dempsey was the Grand Marshal in the Tonopah 50th Anniversary Parade. Dempsey knew Lydon from his early days in the Tonopah-Goldfield are, when Dempsey roomed (batched) with Lydon's brother. Dempsey is known to have said that the two toughest fights of his life were against a local fighter, Johnny Sudenberg, with whom Freck Lydon trained. Lydon was involved in law enforcement in Tonopah for many years. If a troublemaker saw Lydon put on his gloves when making an arrest, the troublemaker knew he was in for a tough time!.

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Postcard of the Lahontan Dam on the Carson River, Lyon and Churchill Counties, Nevada, circa 1900s-1920s

Date

1900 to 1929

Description

A picture postcard showing a portion of the Lahontan Dam on the Carson River, Lyon and Churchill Counties, Nevada.

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Photograph of men and donkeys around a well in the desert, Grapevine Mountains, Nevada, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1920

Description

Men gather around a well in the desert, with the Grapevine Mountains in the background.

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