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Photograph of Dalta Hurry and C. A. Earle Rinker in Mohawk Ledge mine, Goldfield (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: Hurry & I in Mohawk Ledge mine 300 ft level.

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Photograph of C. A. Earle Rinker and Dalta Hurry at an engine house, Goldfield (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: front of engine house Mohawk Ledge Hurry & I

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Photograph of Dalta Hurry and Raymond Jefferson in Mohawk Ledge, Goldfield (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: Hurry & Jeff 150 ft level Mohawk Ledge

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Photograph of C. A. Earle Rinker on his 24th birthday, Goldfield (Nev.), September 07, 1907

Date

1904-09-07

Description

Caption: In front of office next door to office where I worked. Taken on my 24th Birthday. Sept. 7-1907 Goldfield Nev.

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Photograph of the Stewart family, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Archival Collection

Description

Portrait of the Stewart family at Las Vegas ranch. In front of the wall, from left to right, Frank Stewart (Helen Stewart's second husband), Helen Stewart, Evaline (Eva) Stewart, and Eliza (Tiza) Stewart holding a cat. Crouched on the wall, from left to right, Will Stewart and Hiram Stewart.
Site Name: Las Vegas Ranch (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Photograph of a group of people posing outdoors, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Group of students and teachers from a Sunday school pose outdoors around 1914. Original legend with the numbers has been lost. The remaining text reads: Small children in front: #5-Fay Kessler; #7-(?) Kessler; Daisy French behind #7. Sitting on end: Gertrude Martin and Martha Kramer. Standing: #3-Mrs. Chas. Ball holding George; #6-Wanda Ball; #11-Mrs. Noblitt; #12-Bob Griffith; #4-(?) Noblitt; #17-Mrs. Palmer; #18-Hazel Gray; #19-Lola May Ball; Rev. Palmer in back of her; #20-Nellie McWilliams; #21-Mrs. Bray

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Photograph of a group of people standing outside of the First State Bank of Las Vegas and Post office, McWilliams' Townsite, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1905

Date

1905

Description

The view is looking west from Railroad Avenue. In front of the buildings is a group of unidentified men with two children and a dog. The First State Bank of Las Vegas was the second bank in the Las Vegas valley, located on Lot 9, Block 2 within the McWilliams' Original Las Vegas Townsite. The bank building was located on a lot owned by Walter Bracken. The lot the Post Office was located on, Lot 10, Block 2, was owned by Helen Stewart.
Site Name: First State Bank (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Photograph of Jake Beckley and Ed Von Tobel, Sr. in front of the Ed. Von Tobel Lumber Company, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1905 to 1976

Description

Ed Von Tobel, Sr. and Jake Beckley stand in front of the Von Tobel Lumber Company on South First Street in Las Vegas. Pictured are the office, lumber storage, shed and sales room. Beckley, Ed. Von Tobel Sr.'s business partner is seen standing on a horse-drawn wagon on the left. Behind the wagon are stacked shingles. The lumber company was founded in 1905, shortly after the Las Vegas townsite lot auction, but moved from its original location on South Main Street when that proved to be "too far out of town" for business. The South First Street building was destroyed by fire in 1914. Photograph taken 1905?-1906?

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Photograph of a crowd gathered for the Los [sic] Vegas Democratic delegation for county division, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Undated photograph, approximate date 1908. A group of men, accompanied by two boys standing in front of a wooden hotel. Two signs pictured state, "For County Division" and "Los [sic] Vegas Democratic Delegation for County Division." The Lincoln County Division Club was formed in Las Vegas in July 1908 to convince the state government to separate the Las Vegas area from Lincoln County and make Las Vegas the new county seat. Lincoln County covered the entire southeastern portion of Nevada at this time and government administration was conducted from Pioche. Petitions for county division had started as early as 1905. Clark County was eventually founded on July 1, 1909.

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