The Maps, newspapers, souvenirs, and ephemera series, 1880-1929. contains newspaper, souvenirs and ephemera of Earle Rinker’s life and experiences in Goldfield, Nevada as well as trips he took to various other locations. Included are detailed maps of the Goldfield mining district and the town layout, with annotations as to Earle’s living and working quarters and railroad and general maps of Nevada.
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Cleveland A. Earle Rinker was born in Indiana in 1883 to S. Cleveland Rinker and Isadora (Fenwick) Rinker. Shortly after his twentieth birthday Rinker went to Parker, Indiana, seeking work as a stenographer. He soon began working as a clerk for Thomas Condon, a coal and oil dealer who was also an enthusiastic investor in Nevada gold mines. Condon encouraged Rinker to seek his fortune in the gold fields and, in late October of 1906, Rinker boarded a train to make the journey to Goldfield, Nevada.
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