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Ed Von Tobel, Sr. and (possibly) Tony Felix on an exploring trip for mining claims in mountains surrounding Las Vegas. Physical object has an insert containing additional biographical information.

A handwritten inscription on the front of the image reads: "'Old Dinah,' Borax Smith outfit at Furnace Creek Camp, Death Valley, California."

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

Entrance to a mine, location unknown. A rock sits at the entrance that looks like the profile of a face on the left.

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

Nineteen gold bullion bars are stacked atop one another for a photo. Inscription below reads: "Nineteen gold bullion bars having a value of more than $450,000 and taken from one of the Goldfield mines in its boom days are enough to excite anyone. These were the genuine article. Even to Goldfielders they created a sensation. It is every prospector's dream."

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]