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Panoramic view of Rawhide, Nevada taken from Hooligan Hill, featuring Crescent Peak, Silver King Hill, Last Chance Hill, Bluff Hill, Grutt Hill, Balloon Hill, and Murray Hill: photographic print
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Photograph album, Henry Wieking Collection, circa late 1920s-early 1930s, page 16
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Towns and Cities, 1890-1972
Materials include photographs of Boulder City, Caliente, Moapa Valley, Panaca, and Pioche, Nevada from 1890-1972.
Collection Name: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
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Foster, Josephine Gail, 1912-2003
Josephine Gail Johnson was born in Goldfield, Nevada in 1912. Her stepfather, Sam Manor, was a section foreman for the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad. Because of his position, the family moved to a company house in the town of Millers after the birth of Josephine's younger brother Sam, Jr. in 1920. Josephine and her family evenutually moved to Tonopah. Josephine later married George Byron Foster, and they had two children: Marjorie and Patricia. Josephine Foster passed away March 24, 2003.
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Hand, Herman, 1875-1961
Austrian-born composer who immigrated to the United States in 1900. Hand worked as a musician and composer with several orchestras until 1928, when he moved to Hollywood to work as a composer and arranger in the film industry. Between 1928 and his death in 1951, Herman Hand contributed to over ninety film scores, including Howard Hughes' 1942 western, The Outlaw and the Oscar award-winning adventure Lost Horizons (1937).
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Photograph album, Henry Wieking Collection, circa late 1920s-early 1930s, page 14
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Barth, Delbert S.
Delbert Sylvester Barth was born on July 16, 1925, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Delbert married R. Lucille Barth on July 10, 1946, and they had four children: Delbert II, Christopher, Deborah, and Diana.
Barth retired from his position as Rear Admiral at the Nevada Test Site but remained at the United States Public Health Service and the Test Manager’s Advisory Panel.
Barth was director of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Research Center in Las Vegas.
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