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Photograph of man standing in tent doorway, Round Mountain (Nev.), early 1900s

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352)

 

A black and white image of children standing in front a tent house in Williamsville (known to the residents as Ragtown), a makeshift community created near Black Canyon as construction began on the Hoover Dam.

Photograph of several men at a tent camp with their catch of fish, (Nev.), 1900-1925

Photograph of a man seated outside a tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Photograph of a panoramic view of a tent camp near Las Vegas, 1900-1925

Clayson and Griffith, an early tent store in Las Vegas. One of the founders was E. W. Griffith who later owned a building on 2nd and Fremont (Golden Nugget site). The sign on the store reads: "Clayson & Griffith, house furnishings, miners supplies, burros and saddles, new and second goods bought and sold."