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Giles and miners holding pickaxes: photographic film

Date
1878 to 1954
Description
Edwin S. Giles stands with two unidentified miners. They hold pickaxes and what appears to be rocks or mineral deposits.

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Photograph of 1200 foot level, Belmont Mine in Tonopah (Nev.), 1911

Date
1911
Description
1200 ft. level, Belmont Mine, Tonopah, NV, 1911. There is an inscription on the back of the image: "The Tonopah Belmont Development Company was Tonopah's second most prosperous mining company, recording a production of $38,000,000. The Belmont mine was the company's principal working shaft and reached a depth of 1700 feet. The Belmont shaft was in use from 1909 until it was burned out by a fire of undetermined origin October 31, 1939." There is a date stamp: mid-year 1987.

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Fayle Family Photographs

Identifier
PH-00113
Abstract

The Fayle Family Photographs depict the Fayle Family in Southern Nevada and California from 1888 to 1990. The photographs primarily include family photographs of Leonard Fayle, Anna Louise Trapnell Fayle, Leonard Fayle’s parents George Fayle and Jean Henderson Fayle, Leonard Fayle’s siblings George Arthur Fayle and Jean Nevada Fayle, and Leonard and Anna Fayle’s children Jane and Edward Fayle. The photographs also depict the Nevada towns of Las Vegas, Goodsprings, and Jean, including railroad operations, mining, milling, and hauling freight. The collection includes a leather-bound photograph album containing images of the Fayle Family and the Yount Family.

Archival Collection

Tonopah, Nevada mining map, March 1904

Date
1904-03
Description
'U.S. Geological Survey, George Otis Smith, Director.' 'R.U. Goode, Geographer in charge. Triangulation by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Topography by W.J. Peters. Surveyed in 1902-1903.' 'Edition of Mar. 1904, reprinted Apr. 1910.' Oriented with north toward the upper left. Relief shown by contours and hachures. Scale 1:12,000 (W 117°14´--W 117°12´/N 38°05´--N 38°03´)

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Map of Tonopah Mining District, Nevada, revised edition, 1903

Date
1903
Description
'Compiled and published by Booker & Bradford, engineers, Tonopah, Nevada.' 'Copyrighted by Booker & Bradford 1903.' 'Photo-Lith. Britton & Rey, S.F.' Insets of Ray Mining District, vicinity map of Tonopah Mining District, Utopia Mining District, Tokop Mining District, Weepah Mining District, East Klondike Mining District, Gold Mountain, Tonopah Mining District and Red Mountain. Relief shown by hachures. Includes advertisements. Scale [ca. 1:10,800]. 1 inch to 900 feet.

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Correspondence, W.H. Clarke to Levi Syphus

Date
1905-02-09
Description
This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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San Francisco Call - Nevada Edition: newspaper issue

Date
1905-05-23
Description

From the C. A. Earle Rinker Papers (MS-00514) -- Series III: Maps, newspapers, souvenirs, and ephemera -- Newspapers from Goldfield, Nevada and various locations.

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Building or mine remains in Europe: photographic print

Date
1880 to 1979
Description

Bell Family Scrapbook scanning, Set 4, proofed 11.04.2010 Building or mine remains in Europe

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Probably Clara Bow (and Rex?) outside a mine shaft: photographic print

Date
1880 to 1979
Description

Bell Family Scrapbook scanning, Set 4, proofed 11.04.2010 Clara Bow and unidentified man at mining site

Possibly Rex Bell 

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Authorization to sell mining interests

Date
1909-11-05
Description
This folder is from "Legal Records" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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