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Anna Dean Kepper Postcard Collection

Identifier

PH-00098

Abstract

The Anna Dean Kepper Postcard Collection (approximately 1930-1977) contains postcards and photographic negatives depicting Southern Nevada and California. The images portray Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley, California, street scenes from Southern Nevada mining towns, and Nevada deserts and flora.

Archival Collection

Beatty School: photographic print

Date

1950

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.G. Reidhead Family. The building was constructed and designed around materials scavenged from Rhyolite.

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South view of Frenchman Flat, Nye County, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1910 (year approximate) to 1930 (year approximate)

Description

From the Chester R. Longwell Photograph Collection (PH-00311). Massive volcanic (rhyolite) tuff, turned up along fault. North of wedge thrust bock south of Frenchman Flat. N IV-78.

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Photograph of a house, Beatty (Nev.), 1937-1938

Date

1937 to 1938

Description

This home was built in the 1920s for Billy Wilson. Transcribed from the notes attached to the picture, "House built by Luther Wilson and W.W. (Billy) Wilson (?) they never had to buy any materials-got them all from Rhyolite."

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Unidentified woman and the front side of the old Town Hall, Beatty, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1930 to 1939

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.F. Palsgrove Family. The Town Hall was originally the Miners' Union Building in Rhyolite, Nevada.

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Blanch Jackson Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00243

Abstract

The Blanch Jackson Photograph Collection (approximately 1900-1941) contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives from the Jackson family’s life in Tonopah, Nevada and their travels to mining sites in Nevada and Arizona. Blanch, her husband Clyde, her father-in-law Colonel David Howell Jackson, their two sons, and some acquaintances are pictured in the photographs.

Archival Collection

Photograph of town hall and movie theater, Beatty (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Patron provided the following comment: This was located in the 200 block of West Montgomery behind where the ambulance garage is now. Building originally was the Miner's Union Hall in Rhyolite. It was moved to Beatty in 1914.
Caption: The hall affording dances and movies.

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Beatty schoolhouse: photographic print

Date

1900 to 1940

Description

Beatty schoolhouse, Beatty, Nevada. Inscription on image reads, "Then to Beatty & School." An additional inscription with the photograph by Claudia Reidhead reads "Beatty school - roof, windows, bell & all interior wood, all came from a school in Rhyolite, 1928"

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