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Tonopah and Tidewater Engine No. 9: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.G. Reidhead Family. Beatty Mountain is visible in the background.
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John Lisle oral history interview, 2013 March 13
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Scope and Contents
Lisle joined the Beatty, Nevada fire department in 1967 while still in college. He served in the ambulance service for seventeen years before retiring.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Archival Component
Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
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Abstract
The Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection contains photographs from Nye County, Nevada from 1880 to 1990. The collection includes a wide variety of photographs that document the activities, landmarks, geographical features, towns, ranches, and families of Nye County. The collection covers the areas of Amargosa Valley, Ash Meadows, Beatty, Duckwater, Gabbs, Goldfield, Kawich Mountains, Manhattan, Pahrump, Round Mountain, Rhyolite, Smoky Valley, Springdale, Tecopa, Tonopah, and Twin Springs. The activities documented include mining, prospecting, herding animals, schooling, ranching, building construction, railroad construction, and hunting and fishing.
Archival Collection
People driving through cattle: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Postcard of Shoshone Native American woman named Aurora: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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A picture postcard that came out about 1937, featuring Aurora, a Shoshone Indian resident of Beatty, Nevada, who was very skilled at making baskets. From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.G. Reidhead Family
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Phinney home: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Jesse Christensen home, Bullfrog Hills (Nev.), early 1900s
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Archival Collection
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Caption: Home of Jesse Christensen. Beatty, Nevada, where he first saw her.
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Revert Family, 1904-1957
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Scope and Contents
Materials contain photographs from the Revert Family from 1904 to 1957, including photographs of the Revert brothers' 76 Station, the Exchange Club, the railroad depot in Rhyolite, Nevada, the Beatty, Nevada water system, ore specimens, and the stagecoach service.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Grace Davies with a bobcat that her husband, Fred Davies, had trapped: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
Grace Davies with a bobcat that her husband, Fred Davies, had trapped, Beatty, Nevada, 1938. From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.G. Reidhead Family
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