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Potosi Mining Camp: photographic print
Date
1917
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Potosi Mine 1917. Calciner where ore was roasted."
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Exterior view of cookhouse at Potosi Mining Camp: photographic print
Date
1917
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Cookhouse Potosi [Mine] 1917. 'Blue Room', first to left. Many single miners were fed here."
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Potosi Mining Camp: photographic print
Date
1917
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Entrance to Potosi Mine 1917. Sam Rowe foreman and son Cecil. Cecil attended the Las Vegas High School."
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Potosi Mining Camp: photographic print
Date
1916 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291).
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Potosi Mountain: photographic print
Date
1917
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Potosi Mountain. (1917) Potosi mine can be seen near the top of the mountain. The structure below is the calciner where the ore brought down from the mine was roasted to separate the metals from the rock before being hauled by big power trucks to Arden to be then loaded on to railroad cars to go all over the country. Potosi Mountain was the scene of the disastrous air crash that took the lives of screen actress Carol Lombard and her mother in 1942." - E(lizabeth) Harrington.
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Kiwanis Club: photographic print
Date
1925-12
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Original Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas organized December 1925". Back row, L-R: Lon Derkin, Ed. Dupray, Gene Ward, J. Judson, Dean Bingham, Steve Whitehead, E. K. Kirschman, Doc Conger, Carl Rau, George Hardman, Louis Oakes, Dr. Bunce, Wally Rhoads, Joe Harbison. Center row, L-R: LeRay Neagle, Hal Buzick, Bill Fulton, Charley Horsey, Tom Carroll, Alonzo Delkin, Doc Bulette, Ira Earl, "Doc" Earl Padgett, Warren Woodard, Henry Anderson. Front row L-R: Dick Roschl, Abe Whiteneck, P. Pickles, Coach Craven, Mac McGriff, Warren Parker, Monty Montague, Art Harrington, McHenry Stockton, Ed Smith. Sitting between center and back row: Henry Pervy, Jim Down.
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"Kiwanis Club Follies 1930's.": photographic print
Date
1930 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscribed on the image: "Upper far left - Wally Rhoads. Center, Dean Bingham as-bridegroom. Third, Ron. Second, from left, Harve Perry's as madam schuman-Heink. Third row far right, Ira Earl as a mammy. Second chorus girl from right, Arthur Harrington. Lower left corner, Dick Roschl as pawnbroker." It appears that various people in this image are wearing blackface.
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Las Vegas Kiwanis Club members in front of the Last Frontier Hotel: photographic print
Date
1945
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291)
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"Old Mermaid" swimming pool: photographic print
Date
1910 (year approximate) to 1945 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Old Mermaid swimming pool where most of the towns youngsters learned to swim. Located at North Fifth Street."
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Las Vegas Creek: photographic print
Date
1925
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Las Vegas Creek, formed by the overflow from one well that supplied the town of Las Vegas with its complete water supply for many years. This picture taken in 1925 near the head of the creek. Las Vegas Creek furnished a welcome playground for many youths, especially in the hot weather." - E(lizabeth) Harrington.
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