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Photograph of Sunday school children and teachers, Panaca (Nev.), approximately 1900-1950

Date
1900 to 1950
Description
Panaca Sunday School class and teachers stand on the steps of a building.

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Photograph of Harold Stocker on a donkey, Las Vegas (Nev.), approximately 1900-1950

Date
1900 to 1950
Description
Harold Stocker on burro in Las Vegas

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Postcard of Ezra Brooks Queen of Hearts whiskey bottle, approximately 1900s-1980s

Date
1900 to 1989
Description
A postcard illustrating a statue/bottle resembling the Queen of Hearts advertising Ezra Brooks Whiskey.

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Postcard of Jack of Diamonds Ezra Brooks whiskey bottle, approximately 1900s-1980s

Date
1900 to 1989
Description
A postcard illustrating a statue/bottle of the Jack of Diamonds advertising Ezra Brooks Whiskey

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Postcard of poker hand of one Jack and four 2s, approximately 1900s-1980s

Date
1900 to 1989
Description
A postcard illustrating five cards (four deuces and a jack) n.d. The caption reads, "Beat it".

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Photograph of Techatticup Mine in El Dorado Canyon, circa early to mid 1900s

Date
1900 to 1930
Description
Handwritten description provided on back of image: "Tchatticup [sic] Mine, El Dorado Canyon."

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Slide of snow-covered Fremont Street, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date
1900 to 1929
Description
Fremont Street covered in snow at night.

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Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) Fiscal Year 2005 draft: digital files, 2004 June

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Bruce Turner Collection on Transportation and Water in Southern Nevada
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Collection Number: MS-00648
Collection Name: Bruce Turner Collection on Transportation and Water in Southern Nevada
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

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Freck Lydon, husband of Catherine Banovich-Lydon and Jack Dempsey at Tonopah's 50th Year Celebration: photographic print

Date
1950
Description

 From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.G. Miscellaneous. Dempsey was the Grand Marshal in the Tonopah 50th Anniversary Parade. Dempsey knew Lydon from his early days in the Tonopah-Goldfield are, when Dempsey roomed (batched) with Lydon's brother. Dempsey is known to have said that the two toughest fights of his life were against a local fighter, Johnny Sudenberg, with whom Freck Lydon trained. Lydon was involved in law enforcement in Tonopah for many years. If a troublemaker saw Lydon put on his gloves when making an arrest, the troublemaker knew he was in for a tough time!.

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A collage of pin-up girls displayed on a wall: photographic print, approximately 1900-1903

Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00350
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 02

Archival Component