Black and white print of a ghost town. Could possibly be an area of Tonopah, although the exact place was never clearly identified.

From left to right is Blanch Jackson with parasol in her hand, two unidentified young ladies, Mrs. Sam Forman, Harry Crocker and Mrs. Crocker. In the foreground, Sam Forman is being poked with his wife's parasol in Tonopah, Nevada, 1905. This photographer refered to this picture as "Some of the beautiful people."

Addressed to Marko Dobro in Tonopah (Nev.), with a written message in what is believed is Croation. In the corner you can see the postage stamp from Yugoslavia.

Located 10 miles southeast of Tonopah, the camp was settled in the late 1890s when silver and gold was discovered in the area. In May, 1900, when Jim Butler picked up his first samples at the site that would become Tonopah, he was en route to Klondyke. He offered the local assayer, Frank Higgs, an interest in the find for an assay, but Higgs declared the samples worthless and threw them out. Fortunately, Butler retrieved more samples on this return trip to Belmont. The building on the right with the large smoke-stack was the assay office. None of the structures remain today.