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A picture postcard with photographs with the captions "Badger hole;" "Electric Gold Mines, Weepah, Nevada;" "Crowd looking at rich strike;" "Town of Weepah, Nevada where rich gold strike was made;" "Frank Horton, Geo. Wingfield;" "The rich strike;" "Traynor and Horton, boys who found the gold." Leonard Traynor and Frank Horton, Jr., found gold ore in Weepah, Nevada in early spring 1927; George Wingfield was a prominent banker and miner in Nevada in the early decades of the twentieth century. The "badger hole" was where Traynor and Horton reportedly made their first gold strike.

A picture postcard with photographs of a mule team hauling wagons of ore or lumber in Reno, Nevada in 1870; automobiles hauling ore in 1927; Main Street in Reno, Nevada, 1870; men playing roulette at the Palace Gambling House in Reno, Nevada in 1906; and a man standing next to tall saguaro cacti in the desert.

Panoramic view of workers' housing located below Reimers Lumber Mill located near Glenbrook, Nevada in Douglas County, close to Lake Tahoe.

Crowds of people line a street decorated with American flags in Tonopah, Nevada to watch a parade, probably for Independence Day. The Tonopah Club building is seen at left center.

A picture of Wanda Ball Moser driving a Ford at Mt. Charleston.

A picture of Alfred Arthur Moser. Handwritten inscription from behind photograph, "307 N. 9th St. Las Vegas, NV Phone 1137. Railroad yards-SPLA SLC." Street Address: 307 North 9th Street

An external view of the old U. S. Mint building, now the Nevada State Historical Museum in Carson City, Nevada. Site Name: Old U. S. Mint Building (Carson City, Nev.)