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Panoramas: Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada: photographic prints, image 006
Date
2000-12-01
Description
From the Nevada Mining Photograph Collection (PH-00361)-- An unidentified man poses with mining equitment.
Correspondence, Page, McCutchen, Harding and Knight, Attorneys, to H.E. George
Date
1902-01-13
Archival Collection
Description
This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)
Text
Wilverna Leavitt oral history interview
Identifier
OH-01074
Abstract
Oral history interview with Wilvera Leavitt conducted by Pat van Betten on October 30, 2012 for the History of Blue Diamond Village in Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Leavitt talks about growing up in the township of Arden, Nevada. She talked about her father’s employment for the Blue Diamond Mine, the water tower in Arden, and moving to Mesquite, Nevada.
Archival Collection
Photograph of a hauling manganese, Las Vegas, 1918
Date
1918
Archival Collection
Description
The view of a hauling manganese for the first world war in early Las Vegas, Nevada. The Overland Hotel is visible in the background. Handwritten on the back of the image: "1st world war - hauling mang. - 3 kids to Las Vegas - 300 tons a day." Hand written on a slip of paper included with the image: "3 kids, mine owns included Roq Martin, Bill Ferron, "Chick" Chiapello (lived in LA, wealthy family) & probably others. Deal to purchase during March, 1918, when my mother, Ruth Ferron, was giving birth to me in Los Angeles. She didn't hear from Bill until 3 days after I was born, which did nothing to raise the stock of their new fathers! -Barbara Ferron Doyle."
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