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Film transparency of a Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Company train car, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1910
Description
Black and white image of a railroad engineer inside of a train car for the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Company.
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Postcard showing the robbery of a United States Mail coach en route to Bullfrog, Nevada, circa 1900s-1910s
Date
1900 to 1919
Description
A picture postcard showing the robbery of a U.S. Mail coach in the mountains of Nevada. Captions:"A hold up. U.S. mail coach en route to Bullfrog, Nev.;" "Larson Pho. no. 333;" "Denver Eng. Co. "
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Photograph of Mary Edwards, Elbert Edwards, and others, Taos, New Mexico, circa mid to late 1900s
Date
1950 to 1999
Description
Mary and Elbert Edwards (right) posing beside two other unidentified individuals in Taos, New Mexico.
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Film transparency of Roy Mosback and Henry Lotts at Lucky Strike mine, Clark County, Nevada, circa early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1939
Description
Black and white image of Roy Mosback and Henry Lotts at the "Lucky Strike" mine near Mount Charleston, per the handwritten description at the bottom of the image. Note: Image is from a family photo album that was loaned to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and returned to the family on July 17, 1984.
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Photograph of Jake Beckley, partner with Ed Von Tobel, Sr., next to supply wagon, LAs Vegas, circa 1900s
Date
1900 to 1909
Description
Jake Beckley, partner with Ed Von Tobel, Sr., is shown next to supply wagon on its way to one of the mining camps of the Rhyolite or Beatty Districts. Physical object has an insert containg additional biographical information.
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Postcard of Weepah, Nevada, desert and gambling scenes, Death Valley Scotty, Frank Horton, Jr., and Tex Rickard, circa 1900s-1920s
Date
1900 to 1929
Description
A picture postcard with photographs of prospectors Death Valley Scotty (Walter E. Scott) and Frank Horton [Jr.], promoter Tex Rickard, two saloon gambling scenes, a panoramic view of Weepah, Nevada in 1927, and an illustration of a coyote in the desert (captioned "The orphan of the desert").
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Photograph of a man and a woman standing in front of brush house, with a shade shelter on one end, possibly Ash Meadows or Pahrump, Nevada, circa 1900s-1910s
Date
1900 to 1919
Description
Man and a woman standing in front of brush house, possibly a karnee dwelling, with a shade shelter on one end. The photograph is labeled "Summer Camp." A Post-it note on the back identifies the man as "probably Chief Tecopa."
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Photograph of Emma (Peggy) Marie (Schaefle) Schuyler and William Norton Schuyler (left), with Jack (John) and Caroline Heaton., Denver, Colorado, January, 1900
Date
1900-01
Description
Emma (Peggy) Marie (Schaefle) Schuyler and William Norton Schuyler (left), with Jack (John) and Caroline Heaton. In Denver, Colorado. Caroline is Emma's sister (Caroline Agnes (Schaefle) Heaton), and was prominent in Las Vegas real estate market in 1930s-40s. Caroline established the first Las Vegas radio station KGIX in 1928 in the "country" at the current location of 9th and Mesquite Streets.
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Photograph of Lemuel and Johana Compton, circa 1890s
Date
1890 to 1899
Description
Portrait of Lemuel (Lem) and Johana Compton. Handwritten on back of photo: "Had a ranch in Nye County at Peavine, in the early nineties. Both of these people are buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Austin [in Lander County, Nevada]. Present owner of the Peavine ranch now Charley Keough, nephew of Mrs. Compton. Mrs. Johana Compton in the late nineties or 1900 used to deliver potatoes from Peavine Ranch to [Y?illegible] Canyon and Berlin, Grantsville [both in Nye County] which they raised at Peavine Ranch." Johana Compton, a former Union Army nurse, died whle trying to save the Peavine Ranch from fire in November 1900.
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Photograph of a group in covered wagon at Round Valley
Date
1900 to 1925
Description
Photograph of a group in covered wagon at Round Valley
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