From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.B. Coombs Family. Norman “Curly” Coombs’ sons Allen and Bill, Coombs’ stepson’s wife and her daughter, and behind the child, Norman “Curly” Coombs (identified from left to right).
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.F. Potts-Cirac Family. William Cirac, Elizabeth Cirac, Marie Cirac, Leland Cirac is in front of Marie, Louis Cirac, Sr., and Louis Cirac, Jr. (identified from left to right).
An unidentified person looks at the ruins of the school. Several other buildings are also visible. The Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Depot is visible in the background at the left of the photograph. To the right of the train depot is the was the John S. Cook & Co. Bank building on Golden Street. The building visible between the bank and the school was possibly the John T. Overbury building.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Known to all in Nye County, Nevada, as O.K. Reed. Knighton was his mother’s maiden name. Reed came to the Tonopah area in 1900.
Art Rader is a former Nevada State legislator who resides in Las Vegas. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.