The George Mortimer Photograph Album of Searchlight, Nevada dates between approximately 1900 and 1910, and contains black-and-white photographic prints illustrating various scenes and individuals in Searchlight, Nevada. Some images are captioned with initials or brief names.
The George Mortimer Photograph Album of Searchlight, Nevada dates between approximately 1900 and 1910, and contains black-and-white photographic prints illustrating various scenes and individuals in Searchlight, Nevada. Some images are captioned with initials or brief names.
Collection is open for research.
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Material remains in original order.
George Daniel Ellsworth Mortimer was born in Clifton, Ohio in 1876 and attended school in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In 1904 he married Charlotte W. Thompson of New Jersey. Mortimer worked as a mining engineer in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Canada before taking the position of president and CEO with Bolivian Mines Company, Inc. in La Paz, Bolivia in 1914. He died in La Paz in 1920.
George Mortimer Photograph Album of Searchlight, Nevada, approximately 1900-1910. PH-00429. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Material were received by UNLV Special Collections and Archives; accession number 2020-071.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Melise Leech rehoused the materials, wrote the finding aid, and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.