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From the KLVX Steamboats on the Colorado Photograph Collection (PH-00156). Written on photo sleeve: "Salt mine. (Colorado River area)." Handwritten on verso: "Courtesy Special Collections UNLV."

Wahmonie, NV. Prospect hole. Typewritten on photo sleeve: "PROSPECT HOLE. The fortune-hunters left their mark on the Wahmonie Mining District. Here is one view from the inside of a miner's prospect hole. These Wahmonie photographs were taken by Dick Borden and first published in the NTS News in the 1960s. Borden gave us a valuable photographic history of the NTS." [Caption in N[evada] T[est] S[ite] News Bulletin August 21, 1981 p. 8]

White Pine County's newest town, New Ruth, where most of the houses shown in this picture were moved by Kennecott Copper Corporation, a distance of over two miles to a new location to escape caving action which would have resulted from the Deep Ruth Mine operations. The homes are employee-owned.

An image of a mining building and a boat on Lake Mead. Gold ore claims were made near the northern shores of Lake Mead in the late 1930s, after the completion of Hoover Dam. Shipments of ore were towed down Lake Mead by barge for railroad transport. Text on bottom of image reads: "First load of gold ore to be transported on Boulder Lake by barge." Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

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

This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)