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Letter (no envelope) from John M. Bunker, St. Thomas, Nevada to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Date
1894-12-10
Description

From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.

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Photograph of a freight team hauling coal in Lincoln County (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date
1900 to 1925
Description
This is a coal team such [as] they drive in this country ha[uling] coal to the furnaces. From (?) 24. Twelve and fourteen is what they use hauling freight from the railroad to the inland camps. They are handled by one man and drove with a jerk line.

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Photograph of Jake Beckley and Ed Von Tobel, Sr. in front of the Ed. Von Tobel Lumber Company, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date
1905 to 1976
Description
Ed Von Tobel, Sr. and Jake Beckley stand in front of the Von Tobel Lumber Company on South First Street in Las Vegas. Pictured are the office, lumber storage, shed and sales room. Beckley, Ed. Von Tobel Sr.'s business partner is seen standing on a horse-drawn wagon on the left. Behind the wagon are stacked shingles. The lumber company was founded in 1905, shortly after the Las Vegas townsite lot auction, but moved from its original location on South Main Street when that proved to be "too far out of town" for business. The South First Street building was destroyed by fire in 1914. Photograph taken 1905?-1906?

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Postcard of Frank Waite driving a carriage, 1920s

Date
1920 to 1929
Description
Frank Waite and two women in horse-drawn wagon.

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Photograph of an ore team in Eldrado Canyon, circa 1930s

Date
1930 to 1939
Description
An ore team making the trip from the Techatticup to the mill via Eldorado Canyon.

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Pat Jones Photograph Collection

Identifier
PH-00110
Abstract

The Pat Jones Photograph Collection (approximately 1925-1930) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and slides of Harry Suiter in Rhyolite, Nevada. There are images of Suiter standing in front of abandoned buildings, as well as scenery near Rhyolite. Also included is an image of a wagon transport containing borax in Death Valley, California.

Archival Collection