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Jean Carver Duhme at the bar at Carver's Station: photographic print

Date
1952 (year approximate)
Description

Jean Carver Duhme, pictured at the bar at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, circa 1952. 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). 

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Don Finley and Jack Parsons obtaining water for Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains southwest of Beatty, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1914 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family.  Water is being taken from a well in a canyon east of Chloride Cliff.

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Construction of the mill at Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1914 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. The round machine near the base of the mill is a Lane Mill, which rotated and crushed the ore. All equipment and materials were moved to the building site using horses.

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Aerial view of Cathedral Canyon: photographic print

Date
1986 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.D. Wiley Family. An aerial view of Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, showing the parking lot and suspension bridge. The walls are about 30 feet high and a Recirculation waterfall has been constructed at the head of the canyon. The canyon is lighted at night. 

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Jack Soules Memorial Golf Tournament: photographic print

Date
1986 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.F. Hafen Family. Held at the Cal-Vada County Club Golf Course, Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada. Left to right: Tim Hafen; Warren Church, former President of Preferred Equities; Dottie Soules, widow of Jack Soules; and Fifth Judicial District Judge William P. Beko. 

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Oldest children of Shirley Ann Berg Lofthouse: photographic print

Date
1956 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.C. Lofthouse-Berg Families (Round Mountain). Oldest children of Shirley Ann Berg Lofthouse, left Dianne Marie and Carol Ann. Girls’ dresses were made by Shirley Ann Lofthouse.

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Horsedrawn hay wagon and workers on Kelsay Ranch: photographic print

Date
1923 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.C. Lofthouse-Berg Families (Round Mountain). A horsedrawn hay wagon and workers on Kelsay Ranch, north-central Nye County, Nevada. Fulton Little Kelsay is believed to be the man standing holding a pitchfork dressed in bib overalls. Photograph is taken prior to 1923.

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House and garden belonging to Gordon and Billie Bettles: photographic print

Date
1950 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.A. Fishel Family (T&T Ranch). The house was occupied by Betty-Jo Boyde and her husband in 1990, was moved to the site by the Bettles from Death Valley Junction, California. The site was bare land when the Bettles moved onto it. As this picture testifies, Billie Bettle's reputation as a skilled gardener is fully justified.

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Celesta Lisle Lowe at her home in Las Vegas, Nevada, Christmas: photographic print

Date
1965 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.F. Lowe Family. The building site was originally part of a 40-acre homestead taken by Celesta Lowe's father, John Quincy "Jack" Lisle, in the late 1920s.

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Ralph Jacobus "Dad" Fairbanks in Shoshone, California: photographic print

Date
1920 (year approximate)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.F. Lowe Family. This photo was taken by a newspaper reporter from Los Angeles who came to Shoshone and wrote a spectacular article on the many people that Fairbanks had rescued from perishing in Death Valley, and other exploits.

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