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Letter and envelope from Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada to John M. Bunker, St. Thomas, Nevada
From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, an envelope, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.
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Photograph of a man and mule in the Nevada desert, 1940s
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Clara Bow Bell on the patio at the Walking Box Ranch, Nevada: photographic print
Bell Family Scrapbook scanning, Set 4, proofed 11.04.2010 Clara Bow at rock garden in courtyard at ranch house at Walking Box Ranch. The garden was made by "Big John" Silvera from Searchlight Nevada. He was deputy sheriff and did rock work
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Nevada Gay Rodeo Association booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Eureka, Austin, and Hawthorne, Nevada, 1986
Materials contain photographic slides of neon signs in the towns of Eureka, Austin, and Hawthorne in central Nevada from 1980 to 1989.
Collection Name: Neon in Nevada Photograph Collection
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Nevada Burial Records of Stewart Ranch
The Nevada Burial Records of Stewart Ranch date from 1905 to 1913 and consist of a ledger recording those buried at Stewart Ranch in Las Vegas, Nevada. The entries in the ledger document the names of the deceased and where they died. Some entries have additional information explaining how the person died and their height and weight.
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Dredge in Manhattan, Nevada: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada). The hopper on the starboard side of the dredge is visible. The dredge processed the gravel through jigs as opposed to sluices. With the volume of material the dredge handled, a sluice would have been impractical. A jig has a diaphragm driven by an electric motor which pulsates. The Yuba jigs were about 42 inches long by 42 inches across. A bed in the jig was filled with steel shot. As the gravel material floated across the steel shot, the jig's pulsating diaphragm raised the steel shot-bed up and gold, being so much heavier than the gravel and the steel shot, would work its way down through the shot-bed. The jig bed usually has a 1/8-inch mesh stainless steel screen so that any gold finer than 1/8 inch will pass through the screen. The jig pulsated between 60 and 100 times a minute, a "steady throb." Gold coarser than 1/8 inch, being very heavy, would be held on top the screen beneath the bed of steel shot.
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UNLV's Senior Sendoff April 9, 2013 the University of Nevada, Las Vegas: digital photographs
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Postcard of Business Section in Reno, Nevada, 1915
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Letter and envelope from John M. Bunker, St. Thomas, Nevada to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada
From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, an envelope, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.
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