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A messgae on the back of the photograph. It reads: "1920-1954. This was a mizers Castle in Goldfield Nevada. John Bush - lived here 30 years alone while saved 100 thousand dollars, no water or electricity were in this house He worked extremely(?) hard - was student of the Bible never spent nothing at all on himself. Cut his own hair wore socks on his feet in the winter saved on shoes and in the last(?) married a rich woman and is still living"

From the UNLV Special Collections Photograph Collection on Book Illustrations (PH-00170) -- Reverend (Rev.) John Bain. Handwritten on verso: "From: First United Methodist Church of Las Vegas, Nev. [Nevada] (title page), (Rev. [Reverend] John Bain."