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Tonopah and Tidewater Engine No. 9: photographic print

Date

1930 to 1939

Description

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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Ida Pinckney oral history interviews

Identifier

OH-02900

Abstract

Oral history interviews with Ida Pinckney conducted by Claytee D. White on August 23, 2012 and November 05, 2012 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Pinckney discusses her personal history and life in Las Vegas, Nevada after moving there with her family as a child in 1942. She begins by talking about her family and living in a tent house in the Westside community of Las Vegas. Pinckney describes how she feels Westside development has been stunted by an overabundance of churches in the area not paying taxes, life in the Westside during the 1940s, and her experiences as an African American woman in Las Vegas. Other topics of discussion include Pinckney being a member of Culinary Workers Union Local 226, her father and brother working at the Nevada Test Site, and various aspects of Las Vegas history. Willie Jean Beatty also participates in the interview, helping Pinckney expand on topics such as the presence of organized crime in casinos and her involvement in the Sisters Network: An Afro-American Breast Cancer Survivors Organization.

Archival Collection

People driving through cattle: photographic print

Date

1900 to 1940

Description

Clay Dodson and Joe May driving cattle through Beatty, Nevada. Inscription with the image reads, "The young man she married, Clay Dodson, and Joe May driving cattle through Beatty."

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Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00221

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

John Lisle oral history interview, 2013 March 13

Level of Description

File

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

History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: OH-00000
Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

Archival Component

Postcard of Shoshone Native American woman named Aurora: photographic print

Date

1937

Description

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

Date

1921 (year approximate)

Description

Phinney home in Beatty, Nevada, circa 1921.

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Photograph of Jesse Christensen home, Bullfrog Hills (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Per patron comments, this home was one of two twin houses that stood next to each other on Knob Hill in Rhyolite before it was moved to Beatty. Patron also commented that Jesse Christensen was the Beatty postmaster, and that an outline of the Exchange Club is visible on the right.
Caption: Home of Jesse Christensen. Beatty, Nevada, where he first saw her.

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Grace Davies with a bobcat that her husband, Fred Davies, had trapped: photographic print

Date

1938

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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Reidhead home on the end of Main Street: photographic print

Date

1949 to 1950

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.G. Reidhead Family. From the Reidhead home on the end of Main Street, looking across Main Street toward the northern part of Beatty Mountain.

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