Schoolchildren on the steps of Las Vegas High School. Many students were children of employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company. People identified in the photo: Barbara Bell, Enis Liddy, Bob Robbins, Art Mosbach, Tommy Loan, Glenn Trout, Dewey Higbee, Dave Kramer, Otto "Kelly Westlake", Ruth Schuyler, Elsie Goodrich, Iona Jurben. Date estimated between 1917-1918. Site Name: Las Vegas High School (Las Vegas, Nev.)
The Delamar Lode newspaper printing office during the letterpress era. Cast metal sorts, used to construct words for the paper, are in the background at the right. Examples of articles are posted on the wall in the upper left corner. This photograph is attributed to the Fred Steen Collection in Stanley W. Paher's book, Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps, page 300. Mr. Steen, who lived in Delamar around the time of this photograph, moved with his family to Tonopah where he later worked as a mining bookkeeper.
Materials contain photographs of Caliente, Nevada from 1900 to 1930, including photographs of the saloon fire from 1910, a bridge, a railroad tunnel, Caliente Grade School, and a mining crew.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from front of photo: "Home Town. Alamo, Nevada. In 1920 to 1925."; Transcribed from photo sleeve: "An aerial of Alamo, Nevada looking west in the early 1920s. The four room schoolhouse where Logan Wright attended in 1954 is in the center-back of the picture. Alamo Services was owned and operated by Larry and Evy Davis."