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Photograph of train passing through town, Ludlow (Calif.), 1910
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Archival Collection
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Postcard of Bisbee, (Ariz,), 1900-1920
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Myrta Fenwick, 1900-1920
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Archival Collection
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Unidentified mining machinery: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Rosemary Baird as a kid, sister to Helen Fallini: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.C. Fallini Family (Twin Springs, Nevada). Mizpah Mine is visible in the distance.
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Photograph of desert, Tecopa (Calif.), 1907-1918
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Archival Collection
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Desert landscape with hills and valleys; dirt in piles suggests this area was under construction. Inscription reads: "T&T grade at Tecopa end of famous Amargosa River Canyon."
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The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, December 9, 1976
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Archival Collection
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Edith Giles Barcus Family Papers
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The Edith Giles Barcus Family Papers document the lives and work of three related individuals who lived in Goldfield, Nevada: noted mining engineer Edwin S. Giles who settled in Goldfield in 1907, his daughter Edith Giles who was raised in Goldfield, and Clyde Barcus, also a mining engineer, who came to Goldfield in 1923 and married Edith Giles soon thereafter. The papers date from 1848 to 1979 and document the business and personal lives of two generations of the Giles-Barcus family in Goldfield and Las Vegas, Nevada. The collection includes: property, commercial, financial, and mining records; mining and engineering reports; notes on minerals; correspondence; and photographs of the family, Goldfield, and travel shots of the western United States.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with Patsy Rosenberry by Barbara Tabach, February 24, 2013
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Archival Collection
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In the early summer of 1972, Patsy and Chuck Rosenberry packed the car to begin their journey from Hattiesburg, Mississippi to Las Vegas. Patsy’s two teenage children (plus a friend) crowded into the back seat as Chuck eased behind the wheel. He and Patsy had just recently married and he was taking his new family to their new home in southern Nevada. Chuck was a nuclear technologist at the Nevada Test Site and a kind, patient man that Patsy would have followed anywhere. As it turned out, Las Vegas was a wonderful fit and the family would thrive in their new hometown of Las Vegas. The children attended Valley High School; the family eventually bought into a house in the Paradise Valley area; and from 1978 to 1999 Patsy enjoyed working with a growing cardiovascular group. Chuck censored his work-talk like most Test Site employees, but Patsy recalls with pride his concern for safety and how he always felt the public did not have correct information. She also remembers the fun of partic
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