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Postcard of a Native American infant in a cradleboard, Reno, Nevada, circa 1911
Date
1910 to 1911
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard of a Paiute infant in a cradleboard. Caption: "Piute [sic] Papoose in Reno, Nevada." A message dated October 5, 1911 is written on back.
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Photograph of Paiute women and children, Nevada, circa 1910s
Date
1910 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard showing two Paiute women with a girl and a baby in a cradleboard.
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Postcard of a Native American infant in a cradleboard, probably in Nevada, circa 1910s
Date
1910 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard showing a Native American infant in a cradleboard. Caption: "Snug as a bug in a rug. J-14."
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Postcard of a Native American infant in a cradleboard, Reno, Nevada, circa 1910s-1920s
Date
1910 to 1929
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard showing a Native American infant in a decorated cradleboard on a woman's back. Caption: "Indian papoose, Reno, Nevada."
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Postcard of Rhyolite, Eureaka and Rochester, Nevada, 1908
Date
1908
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard with photographs of mining towns Rhyolite, Eureka, and Rochester, Nevada.
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Postcard with four scenes from central Nevada, circa 1900s-1910s
Date
1900 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard with four photographs: the" first [railroad] engine to run over the Sierras;" "Mark Twain 1865 in Aurora, Nevada;" "Mark Twain's cabin in Aurora, Nevada;" the "first house in Genoa, Nevada." Twain is seen with a group of unidentified men.
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Postcard of Weepah, Nevada, desert and gambling scenes, Death Valley Scotty, Frank Horton, Jr., and Tex Rickard, circa 1900s-1920s
Date
1900 to 1929
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard with photographs of prospectors Death Valley Scotty (Walter E. Scott) and Frank Horton [Jr.], promoter Tex Rickard, two saloon gambling scenes, a panoramic view of Weepah, Nevada in 1927, and an illustration of a coyote in the desert (captioned "The orphan of the desert").
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Postcard of scenes of Tonopah, Nevada, 1906
Date
1906
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard with several scenes of Tonopah, Nevada, including a photograph of a house made from wooden barrels.
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Postcard of scenes in central Nevada, circa 1927-1930s
Date
1927 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard with photographs with the captions "Badger hole;" "Electric Gold Mines, Weepah, Nevada;" "Crowd looking at rich strike;" "Town of Weepah, Nevada where rich gold strike was made;" "Frank Horton, Geo. Wingfield;" "The rich strike;" "Traynor and Horton, boys who found the gold." Leonard Traynor and Frank Horton, Jr., found gold ore in Weepah, Nevada in early spring 1927; George Wingfield was a prominent banker and miner in Nevada in the early decades of the twentieth century. The "badger hole" was where Traynor and Horton reportedly made their first gold strike.
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Postcard of scenes from Reno, Nevada, circa 1870s-1927
Date
1870 to 1927
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard with photographs of a mule team hauling wagons of ore or lumber in Reno, Nevada in 1870; automobiles hauling ore in 1927; Main Street in Reno, Nevada, 1870; men playing roulette at the Palace Gambling House in Reno, Nevada in 1906; and a man standing next to tall saguaro cacti in the desert.
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