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Photograph of Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1917
Date
1917
Archival Collection
Description
View of businesses in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, looking northwest from the intersection of Fremont and First Streets towards the original Union Pacific Railroad Station. Horse-drawn wagons and automobiles are in the street. A banner for Democratic nominees to the Senate (Key Pittman) and Congress (Clay Tallman) hangs over the street. Written on back of photograph: [1917 Looking west from 1st and Fremont L-R: Beckley's mens store, L.V. Hotel, -,-, Union Plaza [sic] Depot, Las Vegas pharmacy on right corner (hospital on 2nd Floor), Dr. Roy Martin attending, First State Bank. ID by Shirley Ferron Swanson 10-25-83] Railroad employee homes from South 1st, 2nd, 3rd?
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Postcard of ore mills, Belleville, Nevada, 1880s
Date
1880 to 1889
Archival Collection
Description
Ore mills are to the left, sixteen-mule team is pulling four wagons on way to mine or wood camp. Mule skinner (driver) is riding a wheel horse, swampers and passengers are standing, water barrels are lashed to the sides of the wagons. Cordwood is stacked below the mill.
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Photograph of packtrain and horse team at mine, Round Mountain (Nev.), early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of packtrain and horse team at mine, Round Mountain (Nev.), early 1900s
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Photograph of a vagabond, Nevada, circa 1930s-1940s
Date
1930 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white image of a desert vagabond traveling with his goat, ox, chicken, and dog. A vagabond is a person who travels because they have no stationary home.
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Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to his mother March 17, 1907
Date
1907-03-17
Archival Collection
Description
Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to his mother March 17, 1907
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Budweiser Clydesdale horses, Chicago, Illinois: panoramic photographs
Date
1983-08-23 to 1983-08-28
Archival Collection
Description
From the Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs
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