A dinner event with many men sitting and standing in a small room. The tables are covered with dinnerware - all men are unidentified and location is unknown.
George Lockhart in his office. His right hand is wrapped in gauze. The inscription on the back of the photo reads: "Geo. Lockhart, son of Thomas Lockhart, owner of Florence Mine, Goldfield, Nev. In office where I worked for Davis & Shoemaker."
[Industrial Workers of the World] Caption: Miners-celebration in-Goldfield-Nev Bloody-Sunday Jan-20-1907 Site Name: Miners Union Hall (Goldfield, Nev.) State Bank and Trust Company (Goldfield, Nev.) Palm Grill (Goldfield, Nev.)
A panoramic photo of the Bullfrog Mining District taken in 1906 by well-known Rhyolite photographer A. E. Holt. Written on negative by Holt: "Panorama looking north west from Shoshone Bullfrog Gold property showing country east of Montgomery property." Image also names five mines with corresponding numbers which locate the mines on the photo. Those listed are: "1. Montgomery Shoshone, 2. Lucky Jack, 3. Red Oak, 4. Pittsburgh, and 5. Shoshone Bullfrog Gold."
Photograph was taken at 102 E. Ramsey Avenue, Goldfield, Nevada, in front of the Lewis Rogers, Attorney-at-Law Office. July 4, 1906. Joe Gans (left) with three unidentified men. One is most likely Rogers, his attorney. Handwritten inscription w/ image: "On Sept. 3, 1906, Joe Gans, known as the "Old Masta", fought Oscar "Battling" Nelson in Goldfield. The fight was promoted by Southern Nevada Mining magnate Tex Rickard. Nelson had come out of retirement for the bout saying "I want to settle once and for all that a white boxer can defeat a ------ any day." Gans, a negro, had come to begin his training in Goldfield in June 1906. Because Gans was was black, he was compelled by boxing promoters to permit less-talented white fighters to last the scheduled number of bouts with him and occasionally defeat him. The Gans-Nelson fight for the lightweight championship lasted 42 rounds and is considered the single greatest boxing performance in history. Gans won when Nelson deliberately fouled him. The fight brought in a purse of $75,000 and was attended by 6500 spectators, both records at the time. Blacks from across the country came to cheer on Gans and many stayed in town to work following the contest. Less than four years later, Gans would be dead of tuberculosis."
The Ronald and Rosemary Thome Collection of Goldfield, Nevada Postcards contains three postcards from around the 1950s to the 1970s depicting Goldfield, Nevada. The postcards portray three paintings of life in Goldfield around the turn of the twentieth century.
The UNLV University Libraries Collection on Goldfield, Nevada Collection dates from 1906 to 2009, with the bulk dating from 1906 to 1917 and documents the mining, business, and civic history of Goldfield, Nevada. Items in the collection include a program from the Nelson-Gans boxing match, a letter from H. M. Yerington describing the miners' strike, mine prospectuses, and minutes from the Goldfield Woman's Club.