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Postcard of a tent store, Montezuma (Nev.), 1908
Date
1908
Archival Collection
Description
Montezuma was the site of extensive mining activity from the 1860s-1880s but was dormant in the early 1900s when the Goldfield strike was made. According to the information painted on the front of the "Road House" of the "Montezuma Trading Company", the traveler or prospector could purchase "Wines & Liquors, Tobacco, Miners Supplies, Hay & Grain, and Groceries" at the store. Montezuma was located in the Montezuma Mountains seven miles west of Goldfield and was experiencing a resurgence precipitated by the discoveries at Goldfield.
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Photographic slide of tents at a camp site at Tule Springs, Nevada, October 14, 1962
Date
1962-10-14
Archival Collection
Description
Description written on the slide: "Wind storm has blown down several tents."
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People in the roadside desert with tents set up: photographic slide
Date
1978-08
Archival Collection
Description
From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Car in the back of the photo near road.
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Slide of government tents, near Boulder City, Nevada, April 10, 1931
Date
1931-04-10
Archival Collection
Description
A black and white image of government-issued tents set up near Boulder City for people working on Hoover Dam.
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Photograph of a survey team standing outside a tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of a survey team standing outside a tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
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Photograph of Walter Bracken on a cot in a camp tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of Walter Bracken on a cot in a camp tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
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Photograph of the first tent camp set up by the Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931
Date
1931
Archival Collection
Description
The first tent camp set up by the Bureau of Reclamation in Boulder City before the city was built.
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Mess tent with unidentified people at snowy mountainous location: photographic print
Date
1880 to 1979
Archival Collection
Description
Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute
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Photograph of a tent camp in a mesquite grove, possibly Ash Grove, Nevada, circa 1880s-1890s
Date
1880 to 1899
Archival Collection
Description
Three Indians in mesquite grove tent camp, possibly located in Ash Meadows, Nevada.
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Morgan, Jackson, and an unknown man sitting outside of a tent: photographic print
Date
1907
Archival Collection
Description
Jim Morgan, Clyde Jackson, and an unidentified man sit/stand in front of tent house in Mineral Park, 1907.
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