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Stone depot: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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W. I. Booth and A. Allen Photograph Album of Goldfield, Nevada
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The W. I. Booth and A. Allen Photograph Album of Goldfield, Nevada (approx. 1900-1910) contains forty-five black-and-white photographs taken by photographers W. I. Booth and A. Allen. The images depict the Goldfield, Nevada townsite; mines, miners, camps, and equipment; horses pulling freight and carriages across the desert; and topographical features of Goldfield and outlying areas. The photographs document the mining boom in the Goldfield area during the early 20th century.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with Byron Underhill by Joyce Moore, March 20, 2002
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Archival Collection
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Byron Underhill's father owned the first Coca-Cola bottling plant, the first beer distributorship, and the first bowling alley in Las Vegas. Byron moved here from Needles, Calif., with his family in 1927. Byron later took over the bottling plant, served in the Army as an aircraft mechanic and a glider pilot during World War II, was a private pilot who worked with Search and Rescue, played in various bands, and suggested to the Lions club that they found a burn unit at University Medical Center that is still the only one in the state
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Photograph of Engine #8 of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad in Beatty (Nev.), circa 1934
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Archival Collection
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Newspaper clippings, Las Vegas Tonopah Railroad, 1907
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Archival Collection
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Prospectors map of Tonopah, Goldfield, Bull Frog, & principal mining districts
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Showing towns, roads, trails & watering places, in southern Nevada & Death Valley region, California. 1 map ; 44 x 49 cm, folded in cover 18 x 11 cm. Scale [1:950,400]. 15 mi. to an inch. (W 119⁰--W 114⁰/N 39⁰--36⁰). Relief shown by hachures. Blueprint. "Jan. 1905." Includes list of distances. Goldfield, Nev. : Booker, Philbrick & Fenner.
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