Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 351 - 360 of 37851

Photograph of Edwin S. Giles survey office, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1925

Archival Collection

Description

White Death Valley holly in Indian basket on wall. Drawers were 40" deep and went through the wall.

Image

Postcard of a boom drawing crowd in Goldfield streets, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: A Big Stock Excitement in Goldfield, Nev.

Image

Postcard of people with sacks of ore at the Florence Mine, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: The Florence Mine, Goldfield, Nev.

Image

Postcard of a tent house with a humorous sign,Goldfield, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: Waldorf-Astoria, not New York but Goldfield, Nev.

Image

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

Image

Photograph of people, automobiles and wagons on Main Street, Pioneer (Nev.), 1900-1925

Description

Inscription on front reads: Welch & Tune Photo Goldfield Goldfield Nev Main St. Pioneer Nev. Per patron comment, the second business from the left is the Vienna Bakery Cafe, and a fire started there on May 7, 1909 that burned down all of the businesses in that row. Patron also noted that the sign on the back of the car reads "Alkali Bill's Auto Line," and this was a company that provided transportation from the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad depot in Springfield to Pioneer.

Image

Photograph of students and teachers outside of a school, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

School children and teachers pose outside a one-story wooden building identified as "the only school in Las Vegas at the time". The school building was moved by railroad from Rhyolite to the corner of 2nd Street and Lewis in Las Vegas. People identified in the photo are, beginning with front row, left to right: #1: sister of #5 (name unknown); #5: sister of #1 (name unknown); #7: Kessler ( Ernie May's sister); #9: Otto "Kelly" Westlake; #10: Ernie May; #29 Older son of Tom Squires; #38: Tom Lake; #40: Mrs. Palmer (teacher who ran the high school); #41: Mrs. Bartlet (teacher who ran the grammar school). Approximate date between 1905-1910.

Image

Photograph of the surveyor for the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Photograph of the surveyor for the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Image