The Minnie Perchetti Photograph Collection (approximately 1902-1959) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of Tonopah, Nevada and documents Tonopah in the first half of the 20th century. The photographs depict mines, events, buildings, people, and landscapes in Tonopah, Nevada. Included in the collection are photographs of the 1923 fire in Goldfield, Nevada.
The Minnie Perchetti Photograph Collection (approximately 1902-1959) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of Tonopah, Nevada and documents Tonopah in the first half of the 20th century. The photographs depict mines, buildings, people, and landscapes in Tonopah, Nevada. The collection includes photographs of the Tonopah Club, Town Hall Casino, Fourth of July parades, and other events around Tonopah. Included in the collection are photographs of the 1923 fire in Goldfield, Nevada.
Collection is open for research.
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Materials remain in original order.
Minnie Perchetti was born on June 26, 1920 in Tonopah, Nevada to Yugoslavian parents. She married Tony Perchetti in June 1937 in Hawthorne, Nevada when she was seventeen. She lived in Manhattan, Nevada for a brief period before returning to Tonopah. Her father, brothers, and husband worked in the Belmont and Mizpah mines in Tonopah. As of 2020, Minnie Perchetti lives in Tonopah, Nevada.
Source:
Perchetti, Minnie. “An Interview with Minnie Perchetti.” Interview by Robert D. McCracken. Nye County History Project, April 2, 2010. Transcript. https://archive.org/details/AnInterviewWithMinniePerchetti/mode/2up
Minnie Perchetti Photograph Collection, approximately 1902-1959. PH-00141. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 1982; accession number 82-65.
In 2020, Landon Paljusaj wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.