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Goldfield Post Office: postcard

Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)
Description
Tinted postcard of the Goldfield Post Office, titled "Waiting for mail, front of old post office building. Goldfield, Nevada". The image depicts people lined up in front of The Angelus building.

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Text Rickards Drill arrival for mining: photographic print

Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)
Description
Large blurry aerial group image. Center of photo reads "Arrival of Tex Rickards Drill for Mining and Water Rawhide Northern Water Co."

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George Mortimer Photograph Album of Searchlight, Nevada

Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1910 (year approximate)
Description

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.

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A thirst parlor in a Nevada mining camp, the "Boozy Burros" at the bar: postcard

Date
1905
Description
Tinted postcard. A thirst parlor in a Nevada mining camp, the "Boozy Burros" at the bar. Printed at the bottom of the card: Copyright 1905 by Frank H. Leib." and "Frank H. Leib. Publ. Salt Lake City. N. 1702."

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Rochester Goldfield Mining Company wagons: photographic print

Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)
Description
Men of the Rochester-Goldfield Mining Company sit in horse-drawn wagons. Rinker is seated in first wagon (see blue "x" on the image).

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Rochester Goldfield Mining Company miners: photographic print

Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)
Description
Rochester Mine in Goldfield, Nevada. C.A. Rinker is on the left, J.D. MacMaster is 4th from right. The other men are not identified.

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"Goldfields' Lighting Express in the early days.", postcard

Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)
Description
Tinted postcard, "Goldfields' Lighting Express in the early days."A man crouches down with a dog carrying supplies/tools on the animal's back.

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Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to his mother, November 26, 1906

Date
1906-11-26
Description
Letter to his mother. He wrote about how the hotel fire was only accurately accounted in one paper. He wrote that most papers do not address the disagreeable stuff and that most of the papers disregarded the tenant housing that burned along with the hotel. He also noted that most of the papers did not even list the casualties. Second half of letter describes a shaft that he plans on descending. He also thoroughly described the building that he rents a room in.

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