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Norman Hanson on the road which ran from Basic Magnesium's camp to the loading ramp at Luning: photographic print

Date
1936 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.D. Hanson Family (Gabbs, Nevada). Norman Hanson on the same road pictured in pho005678 running from Basic Magnesium’s camp to the loading ramp at Luning, Nevada. This picture was taken in the winter of 1936-37 when the region was snowed in for weeks.

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Interior of Carver's Station: photographic print

Date
1948 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). One of the first pictures ever taken of the interior of Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, about 1948 or 1949. Jean Carver Duhme is pictured on the left and Gerald Carver is to her right standing behind the bar. Others are not identified. The bar top, made of Solid mahogany, was originally in the old hotel located in Round Mountain, Nevada. 

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Some of the Carver Family in Jean Carver Duhme's home, Carvers's Station: photographic print

Date
1974 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Left to right: Dick Carver, Jean Carver Duhme, Gary Carver in Jean Carver Duhme’s home, Carvers’s Station. 

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Picnic held in Kingston Canyon: photographic print

Date
1949 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Left to right: Dolly Francisco, unidentified men in white shirts in back. The woman farthest from the camera is Margaret Ishmael, wife of George Ishmael. In back row: Mrs. Millett, Mrs. Vucanovich (mother of Nevada U.S. Rep. Barbara Vucanovich’s husband), Mrs. Michels (former postmaster of Round Mountain, Nevada). Man in dark shirt and woman holding a baby in the background are unidentified.

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One of the first pictures taken at Carver's Station: photographic print

Date
1948 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). One of the first pictures taken at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, when it was originally known as Carver’s Rainbow Ranch Bar and Café. Driver of the Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Line, which traveled through Tonopah to Winnemucca every other day, is pictured with Dick and Gary Carver. 

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Death Valley Junction with a mushroom cloud due to atomic testing nearby: photographic print

Date
1951 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series II. Ash Meadows, Nevada -- Subseries II.C. Toles-Turner Family. Death Valley Junction in Nevada with a mushroom cloud resulting from open air atomic testing at the nearby Nevada Test Site rising in the background, probably 1951. The railroad station in the background was moved to Lathrop Wells, where it was used as a brothel. Prior to being moved, the station served as a schoolhouse.

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Jean Ford, Frances Saxton, Elizabeth "Liz" Warren, and Florence McClure: photographic print

Date
1997 (year approximate)
Description
From the Florence McClure Photograph Collection (PH-00354). Taken at UNLV where Ford was honored for all of her contributions. L-R, back row: Elizabeth "Liz" Warren, Florence McClure. L-R, front row: Jean Ford, Frances Saxton. Handwritten on verso: "Picture taken at UNLV, where an exhibit was on display and Jean Ford was honored for "all" her "works", as she had announced that she had inoperable pancreatic cancer.".

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Planning meeting for McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1968 (year approximate)
Description
From the Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection (PH-00237) -- Photographed is Erle A. Taylor to the right of the display board, Dick Ronzone seated in front of the display board, Mayor Oran Gragson standing to the left of the display board, and Bill Briare standing next to Gragson.

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Las Vegas Valley Water District officials: photographic print

Date
1955 (year approximate)
Description
From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248). Identified standing from left to right: Raymond E. Thorn, William C. Renshaw, Thomas A. Campbell, Harry Miller, and C. Norman Cornwall. Sitting from left to right: Mary Jean Barozzi, William Rosevear, S. R. DuBravac, and G. William Coulthard.

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Petroglyphs at dune site at Muddy Springs Canyon, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1987 (year approximate)
Description
From the Eileen Margaret Green Photograph Collection (PH-00229) -- Muddy Springs Canyon, dune site. Handwritten on envelope, "Dune Site, Muddy Springs Canyon. (from her MA thesis. A Cultural Ecological Approach to the Rock Art of Southern Nevada, GN 799 P4 G73x 1987a)". Handwritten on the back of the photograph, "Figure 22. Dune Site, Muddy Springs Canyon."

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