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Congregation Ner Tamid Scrapbook, 1974-1988

Date
1974 to 1988
Description

This scrapbook documents the early years of Congregation Ner Tamid through the 1980s with newspaper clippings, photographs, and ephemera.

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The Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths, event, menu, Trocadero Restaurant

Date
1870 (year approximate) to 1933 (year approximate)
Description

Note: Prime Warden: Rev. Alfred Marshall, M.A Restaurant: Trocadero Restaurant Location: Piccadilly Circus, W., London, England

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First and only train to run through the Smoky Valley: photographic print

Date
1905 (year uncertain) to 1980 (year uncertain)
Description

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). Doby Doc Caudill lived in Carlin, Nevada, and had amassed a large collection of memorabilia of early Nevada history. He later sold his collection to the Last Frontier Casino in Las Vegas. One of the items in Doby Doc’s collection was this old steampowered locomotive, which was hauled to Las Vegas by way of Highway 50 and the Round Mountain turnoff out of Austin, then on to Tonopah and Las Vegas. The side of the train says "PAT McCARRAN SPECIAL". 

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E. Critchfield, Amy Farrington, and Mamma Jo Francisco: photographic print

Date
1905 (year uncertain) to 1980 (year uncertain)
Description

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: Edward "Eddie" Critchfield (1898-1975), Round Mountain resident and the town’s last Constable and last Justice of the Peace; Amy Farrington; Mamma Jo Francisco. Date and location unknown. Probably circa mid 1960s-mid 1970s in Round Mountain, NV.

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