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Postcard of mule team, Belleville, Nevada, 1880s

Date
1880 to 1889
Description
Sixteen mule team hauling fifteen cords of wood on one wagon to ore mill at Belleville, Nevada. Water barrel lashed to front of wagon, mule skinner riding wheel horse. The team is controlled by a jerk-line, a single line lead by a trained lead horse or mule.

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Photograph of Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1917

Date
1917
Description
View of businesses in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, looking northwest from the intersection of Fremont and First Streets towards the original Union Pacific Railroad Station. Horse-drawn wagons and automobiles are in the street. A banner for Democratic nominees to the Senate (Key Pittman) and Congress (Clay Tallman) hangs over the street. Written on back of photograph: [1917 Looking west from 1st and Fremont L-R: Beckley's mens store, L.V. Hotel, -,-, Union Plaza [sic] Depot, Las Vegas pharmacy on right corner (hospital on 2nd Floor), Dr. Roy Martin attending, First State Bank. ID by Shirley Ferron Swanson 10-25-83] Railroad employee homes from South 1st, 2nd, 3rd?

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Photograph of a vagabond, Nevada, circa 1930s-1940s

Date
1930 to 1949
Description
Black and white image of a desert vagabond traveling with his goat, ox, chicken, and dog. A vagabond is a person who travels because they have no stationary home.

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