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The grayscale view of Sims Ely at his desk in an unknown building located in Boulder City, Nevada.

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.

An unidentified man bottle-feeding a Burro near Black Canyon, just outside of Boulder City, Nevada.

Four men pose outside of a mine adit, probably in Nevada. "Grandpa Oates" is written at the bottom of the photograph.

Portrait of Vice-President Walter F. Mondale campaigning for fellow Democrats in Nevada. Bob Rose is also pictured in the center.

Judge John Mowbray (left) and Dr. Brock Dixon (right) at a commencement ceremony at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

James Warren Nye, Governor Nevada Territory, 1861-1864. Nye, a New Yorker was appointed by President Lincoln in 1861.