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Jack Longstreet with his Ford Model-T: photographic print

Date
1914 to 1916
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). It's said that Jack Longstreet had been shot in the arm, and refusing to see a doctor, lived with an infected arm for many years. He did get Maude Reed attend to the arm, and also Maude's daughter, Helen Reed, when she got older. The arm, it's said, had a foul odor. When Longstreet made some money at his Longstreet Mine, he finally went to Los Angeles and had his arm treated.

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Photograph of Dorothy with officers, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1960s

Date
1960 to 1969
Description
Dorothy Dorothy with six officers at an event for the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Photograph taken by Las Vegas News Bureau. The officers' names are (in no particular order: John Christensen, L.L. Stefen, Theodore Erb, John Bagley, C. Harless Parmelee, and Clarence Davis. (See Image 0131 0186 pho023560 for another photo.) Inscription with photo reads: "DD took the full course along with the reserve officers of So. Nevada."

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MGM construction party, image 16

Description

Stuart Mason (middle) walks with Dorothy and the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz, arm in arm, at the MGM Topping Off Party. Guests at the event can be seen sitting behind them, and Larry Woolf, MGM's President, stands to the left at the podium.

Personal papers, 1887 to 1999

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Series
Scope and Contents

The personal papers contain information on J. Bassett Willard, Bill Willard, Armed Forces, artwork material, correspondence, and a reel-to-reel tape.

Archival Collection
Bill Willard Papers

Archival Component