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Aerial view of Carver's Station: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Aerial view of Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, looking east before the garage was constructed to the left of the station prior to 1965.
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Jean Carver Duhme's first new car, a 1955 Mercury: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). She purchased the car from Red Douglas at Red Douglas’s Ford Dealership in Tonopah.
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Gerald Miller Carver at beach in Southern California: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Gerald Carver was born in Winnemucca, Nevada, but the courthouse in Winnemucca later burned down, and he thus had no official birth certificate.
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Jean Carver Duhme working at the grill at Carver's Station: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Items from the Carver’s menu are listed on a sign on the wall in the upper right-hand corner.
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Rogers, Emma G.
Local person. 1940 census shows her living in Round Mountain, Nevada (http://www.archives.com/1940-census/emma-rogers-nv-11364107).
Shown in snv001031 with Katie Rogers (sister?)
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Negative: Irrigation reservoir on old Turner Ranch, Nevada: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). The reservoir was fed by an artesian well located to the left of the photograph. The well was 500 feet deep, and flows 90 gallons a minute without pumping.
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Gerald and Jean Carver Duhme with son Dick Carver: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). They are with the family dog beside an airplane belonging to Ken Arnold of Boise, Idaho, who operated the Great Western Fire Protection Service.
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Gerald Miller Carver, Carver's Station, Nevada: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Gerald moved to the Smoky Valley after purchasing the Carver ranch. Formerly, he had been a rancher near Glendale, California, northeast of Bakersfield, California.
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Some of the Carver Family in Jean Carver Duhme's home, Carvers's Station: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Left to right: Dick Carver, Jean Carver Duhme, Gary Carver in Jean Carver Duhme’s home, Carvers’s Station.
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Manor, Sam Houston
He once lived in Millers, Nevada during the early 1900's and worked for the Tonopah & Goldfield Rail Road. His nickname of Barney Oldfield was given to him because he had a heavy foot while driving. As of February 1980, Manor was living at Hawthron and Round Mountain at 90 years old.
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