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Front of a building in Warm Springs, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1937 to 1938

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.B. Lisle Family. A bar stood to the left of the building pictured here, and a school stood to the right, near the present site of the big, stone corral. Mrs. Wilson ran a boarding house in the largest building pictured here.

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Ambulance and Fire Equipment Station, undated

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Alton Dean Jensen Architectural Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00843
Collection Name: Alton Dean Jensen Architectural Records
Box/Folder: Roll 014

Archival Component

M.P. "Gless" Glessner sitting on the Ford tractor: photographic print

Date

1952 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.A. Fishel Family (T&T Ranch). The Ford tractor belongs to Gordon Bettles. Glessner was retired from the Marine Corps, lived for many years in Beatty and is buried there. In the distance are mountains of the Funeral Range.

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Cunningham, Erma, 1912-2003

Erma Cunningham (1912-2003) taught school throughout Southern Nevada. She was born October 26, 1912 in Granby, Missouri. Cunningham taught in one-room schools in Beatty and Nelson, Nevada and retired from Gordon McCaw Elementary School in Henderson, Nevada. She passed away on March 9, 2003, in Henderson, Nevada.

Source:

"Obituary." Las Vegas Sun, March 12, 2003.

Person

Photograph of the Searchlight Baseball Club, Searchlight, Nevada, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1930

Description

The Searchlight Baseball Club. From left to right, the members are identified: 1) Billie Ryan 2) E. M. Beattie 3) Roy Stanford 4) [?] 5) Orrin Smith "Sherriff" 6) [?] 7) Roland Brown 8) Ben Emerick 9) [?] 10) Harry Carlson 11) Frank Miller 12) Pat Henry 13) Light Wheatley (0110) 14) [?].

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Photograph of the Las Vegas High School basketball team, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1929

Date

1929

Description

The Las Vegas High School's basketball team of 1929. Identified are in bottom row, left to right: Bunker, Parvin, Mac, Hicks, Second row, left to right: Beatty, Ray, Whitehead, Montgomery, Griffith. Third row, left to right: Tate, Stewart, Miller, Gerrath. Fourth row, left to right: Coach, Gibson. Site Name: Las Vegas High School (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Gordon Bettles wearing his Masons fez: photographic print

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.A. Brockman Family. In the early 1950s, Gordon Bettles and his wife, Billie, moved into the abandoned T&T Ranch in the Amargosa Farm Area, Nye County, Nev. Bettles was the first occupant of the Farm Area since the closure of the T&T Railroad years before.

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