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Nevada Mining Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00361

Abstract

The Nevada Mining Photograph Collection depicts mining activities, miners, and mining towns in Nevada from 1868 to 1937. The photographs primarily depict the towns of Tonopah, Nevada and Goldfield, Nevada, including mills, buildings, mine shafts, and panoramic views of the landscape. The photographs also depict Beatty, Lost City, Delamar, Candelaria, Winnemucca, Virginia City, Rhyolite, Elko, and Reno, Nevada. The photographs also include portraits of early settlers in Nevada, Native Americans, children, parades, celebrations, and funerals.

Archival Collection

Photograph of town hall, Alamo (Nev.), 1910s - 1930s

Date

1910 to 1939

Description

First town hall and Sunday meeting house in Alamo, Nevada. The town hall and meeting house was originally in Delamar, Nevada before 1910. The town hall in the photograph was replaced in 1939.

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James E. Deacon Pupfish Research Files

Identifier

UA-00102

Abstract

The James E. Deacon Pupfish Research Files (approximately 1960-2011) contain files kept by James E. Deacon, who was a faculty member in the biological sciences and environmental studies department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The collection primarily contains research files and audiovisual recordings about the Devils Hole pupfish, an endangered species of desert fish only found in Nevada. Also included are copies of Deacon’s testimony and reports for a hearing from 2011 on the probable groundwater pumping by the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Spring, Cave, Dry Lake, and Delamar Valleys (SCDD) in Nevada. The SCDD files also contain copies of exhibits referenced by Deacon in his initial and rebuttal reports for the hearing.

Archival Collection

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dula sitting on a couch in Caliente, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1952

Description

From the Hazel Baker Denton Photograph Collection (PH-00312). On the back it reads, "Mr. + Mrs. Ed Dula, Caliente in 1952. Both have passed on. Mrs. Dula was the first white woman to live in Delamar. The Dulas built the first home there."

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Five men standing around fence in desert landscape: photographic print

Date

1953-22

Description

From the Hazel Baker Denton Photograph Collection (PH-00312). Inscription on the back reads, "Oddfellow Lodge day at the Old Delamar Cemetery. Extreme left Mike Phelps, Caliente; Fourth to the right, Bill Cook, Caliente. One unit of the cemetery fence repair. Summer of '53."

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Wright, John Peter, Sr., 1870-1903

John Peter Wright Sr. was born August 24, 1870 in Pioche, Nevada. He later died January 7, 1903 in Delamar, Nevada. 

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19571925

Person

Transcript of interview with Jan Stewart by Claytee White, June 28, 2010

Date

2010-06-28

Description

In 1901, Jan Stewart's grandfather William T. Stewart brought his family to Alamo, Nevada in Lincoln County and about 90 miles north of Las Vegas to ranch. Soon he and his wife were operating a livery stable. One of his customers was an executive with the Union Pacific Railroad for whom he provided transportation to Las Vegas, where the railroad owned a ranch referred to as the Old Ranch. In this narrative Jan recounts how his grandfather and later his father became managers of the Old Ranch and lived a just a few dozen yards from the Old Mormon Fort, a historic Las Vegas landmark. In addition to sharing stories of his family's history, he describes how the ranch was a unique place to group up, brought the family in contact with many community people and an occasional celebrity.

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Photograph of a building, Tonopah (Nev.), circa 1900

Date

1899 to 1901

Description

Horses draw a cart outside of a stone building. A man appears to be dancing on top of the building. Written on the back of the photograph is, "Taken near present day Tonopah. The first man behind the horses is my great-grandfather John Peter Wright (1870-1903). My grandfather was in the process of dying from silicosis having worked in the Delamar mines. He was a freighter-because he could not do hard labor. W. I. Booth photographer. Wells Nevada."

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Bracken, Anna, 1883-1950

Anna Bracken was born in Eureka, Nevada and graduated from the University of Nevada. She later became a school teacher at Delamar. In 1905, she married head of Las Vegas Land and Water Company, Walter Bracken. She became a community leader alongside her husband and helped establish the first public library in Las Vegas. She later died on January 2, 1950.

Hopkins, A. D. “Walter Bracken,” Las Vegas Review-Journal. February 7, 1999. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/walter-bracken.

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