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0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION     

 

Album I

 

Album I:1.2             Old Ranch, June 1, 1911

Album I:1.3             "San Fernando under the pepper trees"

Album I:20.2           "Yakima Washington State Fair, 1911"

Album I:24.3           "Leon Rockwell"

Album I:25.1           "Pete Mesher" (neg.)

Album I:26.2           Indian Tepee, Perry, Snake River (neg.)

Album I:55.2           Bill Morgan's Old Ranch, 1910

Album I:56.1           On old Mormon trail near Fort Callville, 1911 (neg.)

Album I:56.2           Camped on Colorado River - Vegas Wash, 1911 (neg.)

Album I:56.3           Old River Trail above Fort Callville, 1908

Album I:57.1           Oxen, Fort Callville, 1907 (neg.)

Album I:57.2           Fort Callville with Indian lean-to (neg.)

Album I:57.3           Leon Rockwell by Indian hut on Colorado, 1907 (neg.)

Album I:57.4           Indian Frank's house on Colorado River, 1907 (neg.)

Album I:58.1           Frenchman Mine (neg.)

Album I:58.3           Indian ceremonial rock on Colorado River, 1907

Album I:58.4           Indian ceremonial rocks, Vegas Wash, 1907

Album I:59.2           Indian frank's water wheel on Colorado, 1919 (neg.)

Album I:59.3           Old river trail above Fort Callville, 1908

Album I:61.3           Las Vegas, 1914, 4th of July (neg. only)

Album I:64.2           Bill Morgan, Old Ranch Corral, 1910

Album I:64.3           Bill Morgan, 1910 Old Ranch  "Joe May"

Album I:65.1           Bill Morgan, Old Ranch Corral-1907

 

Album II             

 

          (NOTE:  The identifications in albums 2-6 might contain misspellings

                   because the handwriting is difficult to decipher.)

 

Album II:1              Anna Fabian Casiday.

Album II:2              Mary Jewell (cousin).

          II:3              Henry Jewell.

          II:4              Mr. And Mrs. John Humphrey.

          II:5              Leo Crandal

          II:8              L-R: Edgar Breese and Olive Breese (MacIntyre, Fullerton, CA)

          II:9               Grandparents

          II:9.1            Sophev Breese

          II:9.2            Amanda Breese

          II:9.3            Andrew Hurdic

Album II (cont.)

 

Album II:9.4            Charlot Hurdic

          II:10.1          George Breese

          II:10.2          Frances Breese

          II:10.3          Charles Paige

          II:10.4          Peter Hurdic

          II:11.3          Jim Gaultry

          II:11.4          Jim Hurdrilek

          II:12.1          Uncle Mose and Lida Hurdic

          II:12.2          Aunt Elebeth Hurdic

          II:12.3          S.B. Breese

          II:12.4          Dell Hollerback

          II:13.1          Uncle Isaac and Harriet Head (sister to SB)

          II:13.2          (Same)

          II:13.3          Betsy Geming

          II:13.4          Luther Geming

          II:15.1          Anna Creed

          II:15.2          Edgar Breese

          II:15.3          Polly Banfield

          II:15.4          Maggie Banfield

          II:16.1          F. Paige

          II:16.2          Irene Paige and Aunt Jessie

          II:17             Grover and Claudia Breese

          II:18             Emil Shaples

          II:19             Mrs. Emil Shaples

          II:20             Lou and Vera Breese

          II:21             Kinley children

          II:23             Sophev and Addie Breese

          II:25.2          Louis Crandal

          II:25.3          N. Spoll

          II:26.2          Clarence Creed and wife

          II:26.4          Jimmie Taylor and wife

          II:27.2          Fletcher Vangorden

          II:28.2          Dr. Janes

          II:28.3          Hud Howland

          II:28.4          George Breese

          II:29.1          Charlie Bogart

          II:29.2          Chas. Breese

          II:29.4          Frank Breese

          II:30.1          Peter Hurdic

          II:30.2          Nettie  Larison

          II:30.3          Sarah Shaffer

          II:30.4          (Sophie?) Smith

Album II (cont.)     

          II:31.2          Niece of Grandma Hurdic

          II:31.3          Char. Maybe

          II:32.2          Lill Taylor

          II:32.3          Charlie Taylor's first wife.

          II:32.4          Peter Hurdic

          II:34             Minnie Larison

          II:35             Husband

          II:37             Charlott Hurdic (great-great-grandmother)

          II:38             F.L. Breese

          II:39             Jessie Breese Swartwood

 

Album III

          III:22            Nellie Rockwell

          III:25            Joel Davis and wife

          III:28.1         Peter Bogart

          III:28.3         Isic (?) Bandfield (Grandma Hurdic's sister)

          III:28.4         Laura Bandfield

          III:29.1         Ward Head

          III:29.2         Aunt Harriet Head (Grandma Hurdic's sister)

          III:29.4         Susan Simley  (Grandma Hurdic's sister)

          III:31.2         Liddy Leonard

 

Album IV

Album IV:20           Anna E. Albright (died April 14, 1901)

          IV:40            Bert Thompson

 

                             (No other identification in this album)

Album V

Album V:      [Written inscription inside front cover:  "This was Uncle

                                             Charlie Irwin, Mother Rockwell's brother"]

 

Album V:19            Freddie [Rockwell].

          V:20             Mother

          V:21             Father

          V:25             Freddie [Rockwell]

          V:26             Uncle Charlie Irwin

          V:27             Aunt Suki Irwin

          V:37             Freddie Rockwell

          V:38             Henry Halliday.

 

          (no other identification in this album)

 

Album VI                No identification in this album

 

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Early Las Vegas

 

0001   Las Vegas 1876 aka Gass Ranch

0002   Las Vegas Spring (neg.)

0003   Las Vegas Spring, 1906 (neg.) (slide)

0004   First depot, SP, LA & SL coach, No. 12 at Las Vegas, 1905

0005   Rockwell Electric Shop

0006   Rockwell Electric Shop, Dave Perine

0007   Back of shop, City Bakery, Earl and Bill "Limey" Pearson, (where

     Fortune Club now stands)

0008   Same as above, another view

0009   Las Vegas Hardware and Plumbing Co. 1909.  (neg.)

0010   Same as above, another view

0011   First service station, "Wind Mill Service Station"

0012   Warren Woodard, downtown camp Ground

0013   Burned school house (1910)

0014   Burned school house (1910)

0015   Old Side Board Bar, 1907

0016   Colorado Club

0017   Hotel Fox

0018   4th of July, 1908, Vegas Ranch

0019   Old Ranch pool, 1916

0020   Leon Rockwell

0021   4th of July, 1908 at SP, LA, & SL freight station, Las Vegas (neg.)

0022   Judge Lillis-1907, 4th of July

0023   No i.d.  Horses in Las Vegas, 4th of July

0024   July 4th, 1910 at depot

0025   SP,LA, & SL freight station Las Vegas 1910

0026   July 4, 1910.  Celebration by Freight House.

0027   July 4, 1909, George Deverall (?), Leonard Moore

0028   July 4, 1910, rodeo

0028a  Footrace during July 4, 1907 festivities

0029   July 4, 1910, rodeo

0029a  4th of July at railroad depot

0030   1st celebration of Stray Elks, 1910 or 1911

0031   Labor Day, 1910

0032   Labor Day, 1910

0033   Labor Day, 1914

 

Early and later Las Vegas

 

0034   First State Bank, Fremont Street, 1912?

0035   City Bakery

0036   Labor Day, 1912 or 14, Hard Rock Drill Contest

0037   Fair, 1925 auto show

0038   Fair, 1925, Boy Scout Camp

0038a  Jake Garehime's Music Store, Albright Brothers Stationery & Office

          Equipment & Repair Shop

0039   "Our tent, 1908, N. 3rd Street"

0040   "Wally Rhodes, Floyd, Leon, Mother, Earl, 1910"

0041   "Our Tent" 112 N. 3rd St., Maude Swantwood, Mother, Earl, Floyd, Wally

           Rhodes, 1910.

0042   Home of Leon Rockwell, 3rd Street

0042a  "Mother's old house, 3rd St., where Albrights Store is."

0043   4th and Stewart

0044   Von Tobel's house, 2nd Street

0045   "Old Von Tobel home, (Fiesta Room-Fremont, now)  Lottie Rockwell Home"

0046   Old Von Tobel home (Fiesta Room-Fremont, now), Lake home on left.

0047   Von Tobel's house

0048   "Clark County Jail, Ogden by Main" (neg.)

0049   U.S. Post Office, SE corner 1st and Carson

0050   "Las Vegas 1906"

0051   Hay wagons in front of Arizona Club

0052   Man in front of Hughes Ice Cream

0053   Old Pickwick Stages, (buses)  (neg.)

0054   SP,LA & SL station, street side, with draftees WWI Las Vegas.  Sequence

          of farewell scenes with views of cars.  At least one car still lettered "Salt Lake"

0055   Same as above

0056   Same as above

0057   Same as above

0058   Same as above

0059   Same as above

0060   Same as above

0061   Same as above

0062   Same as above

0063   Leon Rockwell and family in Buick (neg.)

0064   People in car "Early Las Vegas"

0065   Green Mill, Las Vegas (neg.)

0066   View of first station, SP.LA & SL coach No. 12.  Court House Library.

0067   Parade

0068   Fremont Street parade

0069   Labor Day Parade, 1931

0070   Labor Day Parade, 1931

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Early & later Las Vegas (cont.)

 

0071   Parade

0072   N. 3rd, front of Mother's old home

0073   1st airplane came to Las Vegas, O.J. Priest. (neg.)

0074   1st airmail plane, Rockwell Fields, Las Vegas

0075   1st airmail plane, Rockwell Fields, Las Vegas

0076   1st airmail plane, Rockwell Fields, Las Vegas

0077   1st airmail plane, Rockwell Fields, Las Vegas

0078   1st airmail plane, Rockwell Fields, Las Vegas

0079   1st airmail plane, Rockwell Fields, Las Vegas

0080   Western Air Express plane

0081   Ceremonial event having to do with air transportation

0082   Ceremonial event having to do with air transportation

 

Nevada

Alamo

 

0083   Foremaster's Alamo Store

0084   Grave near Alamo

 

Beatty

 

0085   Mule team to Beatty

0086   20 Mule Team, Borax, Beatty, 1920s

 

Boulder City

 

0086   Silver Spike celebration at Boulder Junction, south of Las Vegas, where

          Boulder City branch leaves UPRR mainline, ca. 1932 or earlier

 

Callville

 

0087   Fort Callville,  bull corrals (neg.)

0088   Fort Callville boulders left from glacial deposit (neg.)

0089   Fort Callville, 1925

0090   Mother and Earl near Fort Callville, 1910

0091   Fort Callville, Colorado River, 1907

 

 

 

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Carson City

 

0092   Old Carson City-various views

0093   Old Carson City-various views

0094   Old Carson City-various views

0095   Old Carson City-various views

 

 

Colorado River

 

0096   Black Canyon

0097   Site of Boulder Dam, Earl on rock

0098   River, no i.d.

0099   Leon Rockwell, Spud Lake, at Indian Frank's camp, 1907

0100   Old wheel for pump.  Indian Frank's ranch.

0101   Indian grain bin (neg.)

0102   Old homemade plow, Indian Frank's Ranch, 1907

 

Delamar

 

0103   Delamar (neg.)

0104   Remains of old mill (neg.)

0105   Bobby Bell, Rev. Darneill, Nigger Johnson, Dr. H.H. Mayo, operating.

          1899 (neg.)

 

Frenchman Mine

 

0106   Tracks to mine shaft (neg.)

0107   Men with ore cart, 1907

0108   Joe Casablanca, Frenchy,  Spud Lake, Earl  1908

 

Frenchman Mill

 

0109   Earl and Spud  Lake with hay wagon

 

Goldfield

 

0110   Building at Goldfield

 

 

 

 

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Goodsprings

 

0111   Jack Naylor's place, ore pack train, burros and pack saddles (neg.)

0112   Desert between Las Vegas and Goodsprings.  "Floyd, Earl, and mother,

          1917"  (neg.)

0113   Miners, hardrock drilling contest.  July 4

0114   Earl Rockwell and Republic Truck, 1916

 

 

Hiko

 

0115   Rock building

0116   Hiko cemetery

0117   Hiko cemetery

0118   Hiko mill

 

 

Jean

 

0119   Jean Hotel, behind it can be seen incline for Yellow Pine Mine RR ore

          cars to unload concentrate into tipple then transferred to SP,LA< & SL.

0120   Shows top of tipple over truck.

0121   Bessie Rockwell (neg.)

0122   Bessie Rockwell, 1918, Jean, Nevada.  (neg.)

 

Kyote Springs (Fort Paiute)

 

0123   Fort Paiute, 20 miles S.W. of Searchlight

0124   Fort Paiute, 20 miles S.W. of Searchlight

0125   Fort Paiute, 20 miles S.W. of Searchlight

0126   "Indians at Kyote Springs" (neg.)

 

Las Vegas Wash

 

0127   The wash, May 1933

0128   Mormon Butte, 1907

0129   Mormon Temple Rock, 1907

0130   Old Spanish Rock House.  N. side of the Meadows, 1909 (neg.)

 

 

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Logandale

 

0131   Conflicting i.d.'s (1) Benson Ranch or (2) Steve  Whitehead's home

 

Lost City

 

0132   Rooms (house 47)

0133   Rooms (house 47)

0134   Rooms (house 47)

0135   Rooms (house 47)

0136   Rooms (house 47)

0137   Rooms (house 47)

 

Mesquite Wells

 

0138   Spud lake, L.H.Rockwell, Tucks Ranch, 1908

0139   Grandmother Rockwell, Tucks Ranch, 1908

 

Moapa

0140   Moapa, (Nevada Club Saloon, Moapa produce)

0141   Moapa by pump station, 1927

 

Mt. Charleston

0142   Cabin

0143   "Our cabin, Bessie and Margy"

0144   "Our cabin"

0145   "Our cabin, Earl, Leon Jr., Margy"

0146   Mother Rockwell, Earl, Margy, Leon Jr., Marion Stone

0147   Mt. Charleston, a cabin

0148   Cabins at Mt. Charleston

0149   Eagle Peak

0149a  Fire at Mt. Charleston, 1919?

0150   Mt. Charleston (road and car)

 

Rhyolite

0151   Dyerbury Building

0152   Building

0153   Building

0154   Another building

0155   Rhyolite Depot

0156   Rhyolite Depot

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Searchlight

 

0157   Various views

0158   Various views

 

Tonopah

 

0159   General view

 

Tule Springs

 

0160   Leon Rockwell with burro, 1908

 

Virgin Valley

 

0161   Farmer in Virgin Valley

 

Wahmonie

 

0162   Wahmonie

0163   Wahmonie gold rush makeshift store

0164   Cafe

0165   Gilbert's makeshift store

 

Warm Springs

 

0166   The springs

0166a  General view of the springs

0167   Floyd and Leon Rockwell

 

Arizona

 

Chloride

 

0168   Room House, 1945

0168a  Saloon, Allen Bros., 1945

 

White Hills

 

0169   Store and Chinese laundry, also pool hall and barber shop--1945

0170   Buildings, 1943

 

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

California

 

Death Valley 

 

0171   Scotty's Castle

0172   Steam tractor

 

Long Beach

 

0173   Sand artist

 

Utah

 

Cove Fort

 

0174   Court yard (neg.)

0175   Exterior, another view (neg.)

0176   Exterior, another view (neg.)

0176a  Exterior, another view (neg.)

 

Panguitch

 

0177   Various log buildings

0178   Various log buildings

0179   Various log buildings

 

Miscellaneous

 

0180   Yosemite, 'Selig moving picture outfit making 'The Rescue of Daniel

          Boon's Daughter'".

 

Mexico

 

Tijuana

 

0181   Buildings, 1908

0181a  Earl, Roy Mossback

 

 

 

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

People

 

0182   Harley J. Bowen, Shady Bend Outfit.  October 14, 1906.

0183   Clarence Fry.  Oswego, Kans.

0184   Alta Mereness Ham.  (neg.)

0185   Nephi and Grandma Johnson (neg.)

0186   Nephi and Grandma Johnson (neg.)

0187   Black Jack Kellett, Moapa Valley, St. Thomas

0188   Execution of Black Jack Ketchum, May 1, 1901 in New Mexico--

          a member of the Butch Cassidy Gang.

0189   Execution of Black Jack Ketchum, May 1, 1901 in New Mexico--

          a member of the Butch Cassidy Gang.

0190   Execution of Black Jack Ketchum, May 1, 1901 in New Mexico--

          a member of the Butch Cassidy Gang.

0191   Execution of Black Jack Ketchum, May 1, 1901 in New Mexico--

          a member of the Butch Cassidy Gang.

0192   Execution of Black Jack Ketchum, May 1, 1901 in New Mexico--

          a member of the Butch Cassidy Gang.

0193   Elmer Mosler, Shady Bend Outfit.  October 14, 1906.

0194   "Myself and my dog Dusty".  1906  (Leon)

0195   "Myself and my dog Dusty".  1906  (Leon)

0196   Leon Rockwell, 1908.

0197   L.H.R. and Dusty, 1906

0198   Leon Rockwell

0199   L.H. Rockwell

0200   L.H. Rockwell

0201   L.H. Rockwell

0202   Desert Picnic, Leon Rockwell and family.

0203   Earl, with coyote hides, 1911

0204   Earl Rockwell

0205   "Earl Rockwell"  (really Leon)

0205a  Leon Rockwell

0206   Leon and Earl Rockwell

0207   'Mother and Bessie on Quail hunt with Earl and me"

0208   Mother and Earl-Quails.  1915

0209   Earl, Leon and Mother Rockwell

0210   Leon and Earl Rockwell, 1st Helldorado  (1934)

0211   Leon and Mother Rockwell, 1st Helldorado  (1934)

0212   Earl and Leon Rockwell, 1st Helldorado (1934)

0213   Leon and Earl Rockwell, 1st Helldorado  (1934)

0214   Earl, Mrs. Rockwell, Leon

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

People (cont.)

 

0215   Earl and Leon

0216   Floyd, Mother, Earl Rockwell

0217   1916, Honeymoon-Aunt Jess Swartwood house, Elmira, New York

0218   Earl Rockwell, Ronald Breese, Floyd Rockwell-1918  Breezeport,

          New York

0219   Earl, Grandad, Breese, Floyd, 1918

0220   Earl, Floyd, and Mother, 1917

0221   Marjorie Rockwell's Birthday party

0222   Mother, Jr. Bessie--Charleston

0223   Leon Rockwell, Jr.

0224   Smitty, my saddle Rear 112 N. 3rd-our old home.  1908

0225   Unidentified Native American Woman  (neg.)

0226   Man on ship

0227   Elks Club, 1917  (neg.)

0228   Elks Club, 1936, costumed for Helldorado

0229   Boulder City, Stray Elks, 1933

0230   Fire crew with Leon Rockwell, 1930

0231   Fire crew with truck.  3rd and Carson Streets.

0232   Fire crew with truck.  3rd and Carson streets, with similar view.  (neg.)

0232a  Las Vegas Volunteer Fire Department (oversize) (neg.)

0232b  Las Vegas Volunteer Fire Department (oversize) (neg.)

0232c  Las Vegas Volunteer Fire Department (oversize)  (neg.)

0233   Volunteer Fire Department Christmas party--1935

0234   Volunteer Fire Department, Helldorado (neg.)

0235   Veterans' organization

0235a  Unidentified banquet.  (oversize)

0236   Our house 121 N. 3rd, 1919

0237   Our cabin-Mt. Charleston Park--1926

0238   Our cabin-Mt. Charleston Park--1926

0239   The cabin, 1920

0240   Unidentified group of men.  (very old photo 1800s on tin)

0241   Exhibition Ropes and Riders, 1916

0242   Group of people in desert

0243   Picnic on the desert

0244   Picnic on the desert

0245   Group of people in the desert

0246   Very old photo of a group of men sitting on a rock

0247   Old 5th Street elementary school.  5th and Carson (neg.)

0248   Ethel, Beula, Marguerite

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

0249   Piutes (neg.)

0250   On road to Jean, 1912

0251   Background shows loading platform of yellow Pine Mine RR.

0252   July 4th, 1943

0253   [Spud lake and me packed for trip to river, Colville (Fort) 1907]

          (Leon Rockwell)

0254   Floyd Rockwell on burro

0255   A friend of Hannah's

0256   Brownie, Smith, Leon, Earl, Floyd, 1908

0257   4th of July-Ranch, 1908

0258   Old Ranch

0259   Mother, Earl, Floyd, and me-Old Ranch, 1909

0260   Old Ranch.  Rawhide Corral.  1914  (neg.)

0261   Group with horses at Ranch.  1908  (neg.)

0262   Group-no location, 1907.

0263   Geo. Deverell, Chas McQuade, Red Todd, Earl, Ike Lane, 1907 to 1910. (neg.)

0264   Geo. Deverell, Chas McQuade, Red Todd, Earl, Ike Lane, 1907 to 1910. (neg.)

0265   Geo. Deverell, Chas McQuade, Red Todd, Earl, Ike Lane, 1907 to 1910. (neg.)

0266   Geo. Deverell, Chas McQuade, Red Todd, Earl, Ike Lane, 1907 to 1910. (neg.)

0267   Geo. Deverell, Chas McQuade, Red Todd, Earl, Ike Lane, 1907 to 1910. (neg.)

0268   Old Ranch-1910.

0269   Earl, Andy Rateal, myself (Leon) at the lake, 1944

0270   "Red Fox" or Dr. M.B. Taylor.

0271   "Ozozo-the Gorilla Man and Jack Dempsey"

0272   Bessie Rockwell dressed for Helldorado.

0273   "Kid Shorty Matucci, 1918".

0274   Kyle Brothers. (neg.)

0275   Isaac Kirk.

0276   Talton Hall

0277   The Dalton Boy

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

0278   men and women in fine clothes near marker

0279   Men and women in fine clothes near marker

0280   Four men outside log structure

0281   Older man at roadside in desert

0282   Graveyard

0283   Burros

0284   Burros

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Miscellaneous (cont.)

 

0285   Mountain

0286   Waterfall

0287   Mountains

0288   Mountains

0289   Cave (Rock shelter)

0290   Caves

0291   Archaeological site (Pueblo or Basketmaker)

0292   Port Rockwell's Cabin on Government Creek, Utah

0293   Cabin in desert

0294   Stone cabin with shed roof

0295   Interior of room

0296   Frisco store

0297   Street scene, framed buildings

0298   Parked cars

0299   View of burned building from street--collapsed

0300   Interior of burned building

0301   Lynching of three blacks

0302   Hay wagon

0303   Wagon going uphill

0304   Death Valley engine and wagons in Las Vegas?

0305   "Old Federal Truck [   ]  Summerville  [  ] West.

0306   "Fire engines-Red Bluffs, La France, and Senaca."

0307   "Early Fire cart (may be from New York)  (neg.)

0308   "Earl Rockwell's truck hauling manganese"

0309   Two Nevada autos, woman at campsite

0310   Rear view of loaded auto

0311   Wreck-Ralph Thomas

0312   Rockwell's wrecked car

0313   Car in desert

0314   Two cars on desert road, July 24, 1924

0315   Repairing auto tire in desert

0316   Loaded trailer in desert

0317   San Diego southern commuter line outside San Diego. Later electrified.

0318   Children's band at depot

0319   Cartoon of prospector, Indian woman  "A Desert Rat"

0320   Brigham Young settee in museum given by Leon Rockwell

0321   Rockwell Indian artifacts in museum

0322   Rockwell Indian Basket Exhibit

0323   Rockwell Clothing and Rock Exhibit

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Miscellaneous (cont.)

 

0324   108 year old man

0325   Pueblo Snake Dance (neg.)

0326   "On the Desert", 1907.  (neg.)

0327   Lenhi Mt. Ranch 12 miles in distance

0328   Remnant Old Fort

0329   Burros, Stewart Ranch

0330   Bird's Eye View, Las Vegas

 

Postcards

 

Nevada

 

Las Vegas

 

0331   Park Train--1910

0332   Public School 1911

0333   Fremont Street, 1918

0334   Fremont Street, 1924 (neg.)

0335   Hotel Nevada before 1911 fire

0336   Old Fort (neg.)

0337   Artesian well, Wixon Ranch

0338   Clark Ronnow farm

0339   Loaded team, Cottage Hotel in background  (neg.) (slide)

0340   First inaugurating Contract Air Mail, 1926

0341   "The Boozy Burros" 1905 (neg.)

0342   Las Vegas Rancho (neg.)

0343   Poem-The Arizona Club 1908  (neg.)

0344   Casinos and Gambling

0345   Birdseye view, Las Vegas, 1909 (neg.)

0346   Ray Nealy Funeral

0347   Artesian well

0348   Fremont Street 1914  (neg.)

 

Fort Callville

 

0349   Old Fort Callville (neg.)

 

 

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Mt. Charleston

 

0350   Mt. Charleston cabins

0351   Mt. Charleston cabins

0352   Tuck's cabin or Charlie Ball's cabin, 1920 or 1937

 

Moapa Valley

 

0353   Piute Indians (neg.) (slide)

0354   Lost City skeleton and pottery

0355   Lost City-Skeleton in ancient Pueblo.

0356   School building, Overton

 

Red Rock Canyon

 

0357   Sandstone Ranch

 

Reno

 

0358   Business section, 1915

 

Tonopah

 

0359   Barrel House, after 1907

 

Virginia City

 

0360   Downtown

 

 

ARIZONA

 

0361   Montezuma Castle near Flagstaff, Arizona

0362   American Sahara on Old Spanish Trail Highway

0363   Plan Road over the American Sahara

 

 

 

 

 

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTIONS

 

Postcards (cont.)

 

California

 

Death Valley

 

0364   "Civic Center" pacific Coast Borax Co. (neg.) (slide)

0365   Grave near Eagle Borax

0366   The Black Mountains

0367   The Johnsons and Death Valley Scotty in Scotty's Castle (neg.)

0368   The Dripping Blood Cliffs

0369   The Mushroom Rock

0370   Ruins of old Harmony Borax Plant

0371   Devil's Golf Course

0372   Sand Dunes near Dumont

0373   A Mirage of Water

 

Additions to Collection

 

0374   Mrs. Anthony C. Woeckener of Erie, Pa., better known as Chiquita the

          Doll Queen.

0375   Mart Whitcomb, cousin of Silas Breese.

 

 

Indians

 

0376   Indian grain bin-Colorado River--1907

0377   Indian warrior.  [Arizona]

0378   Indian maiden.  [Arizona]

0379   Three Indian maidens.  [Arizona]

0380   Indian maiden.  [Arizona]

0381   Indian chief.  [Arizona]

0382   Indian maiden.  [Arizona]

0383   Indian maiden.  [Arizona]

 

 

 

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Miscellaneous

 

0384   Group at a banquet.  Standing by wall: R.E. Rockwell; (?); Bonnie Botts;

          Harry Jameson; (?); H.Case; Mrs. Arnold Scott; Shorty DeBrink; (?);

          Bill Hall; (?).  Seated left side of table: Mun Levitt; Lolla Adams; Bill Johnson;

          Mrs. Mun Levitt; Lauren Shaw; Mrs. Wm.Hall; Irene DeBrink;  (?);

          Scotty Brewner; (?); Walt Bond.  Right side of table: Mrs. Dick Leavitt;

          Mother Rockwell; Archie Mellott; Mrs. Walt Bond; Lt. Rickwell; Jim Downs;

          Dick Levitt.  Small table:  Bessie Rockwell; Lynn Botts; Mrs. H. Case. 

          (c. 1915-20)  (DUP.: 0008-0235A & NEG.)

0385   Arizona Club, c. 1906.  Exterior and interior views.

0386   Earl Rockwell, brother of Leon Rockwell, Sr.  (c. 1905)

0387   Marjorie Lucille Rockwell, daughter of Leon Rockwell, Sr.

0388   Charlotte Amanda Rockwell.  (Leon Rockwell, Sr.'s mother)

0389   Crater Lake (Oregon)

 

 

Family

 

0390   "Grace Elisabeth Hurdick [Hurdic] 1844-1865"

0391   "John Barlow'

0392   "F.L. Breese"  (uncle)

0393   "Charles E. Breese, born April 17-1851".

0394   "Breese [Family] Reunion"

0395   "Grandad & Grandma Rockwell"

0396   Bessie Banfield's family (see reverse of photo for i.d.)

0397   "Charlotte Herdick (sic) born Feb 23-1822 died 1910"

          [Charlotte Hurdic, Leon Rockwell Sr.'s great-grandmother]

0398   "Andrew Herdick (sic) born Jul 23-1809 died 1864"

           [Andrew Hurdic]

0399   "Uncle L.R. Breese   Frank Lee"   [Frank Lee Breese]

0400   "Lou Rockwell taken from photo"

0401   "Grandmother Rockwell; Aunt Sarah Antis, her daughter;  Cousin Lena

          Antis Thomas; Glen and Thomas, their sons".

0402   "Geo. Breese"

0403   "Mat Lockwood?  Costumer"

0404   Ancestral home?  (Possibly Hurdic?)-no identification.

0405   People standing in front of home-1800s?- no identification.

0406   "For Mrs. Hurdic and after her for Mrs. S.B. Breese.  84 years old.

           Eloise Hunter Howel's Mother"-

0008

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Family (cont.)

 

0407   "Breese [Family] Reunion-1890"

0408   Family group photo.  (no identification)

0409   Group of school children.  (no identification)

0410   "Ronald Breese-5 ½ years old-with his papa's clothes."

0411   "L-R: Jessie; Lottie & baby Leon' Father & Mother Breese; S.B. Breese"

0412   "S.B. Breese and L.H. Rockwell"  [Grandad Breese and his grandson Leon

          Rockwell Sr.]

0413   "Mother, Father, Earl & me; the dog is Boo Jum.  Taken 1893 at our home

          404 Division St., Elmira, N.Y."

0414   Family group in front of house-no identification.

0415   Family portrait-no identification-c. late 1800s.

0416   Family portrait-no identification.

0417   Portrait of family member-no identification.

0418   Portrait of family member-no identification.

0419   "Aunt Alva, Aunt Jessie, Maud, Ronald".

0420   "1902 Che--?  River, Elmira, NY.  Leon R., (Ducky) Orrie Drake, Mother

           Rockwell, Aunt Jessie, the White girls and their parents Bessie and ----."

0421   "Leon, Uncle Tom---?  1902"

0422   "Tom, Ducky and self 1902."

0423   "1902 vacation on Che---? River, NY."

0424   "Mother, Aunt Jessie; Floyd and Earl; myself 1902."

0425   "Edward Rosenberg , April 15, 1914."

0426   "Admiral & Lottie Dot (Kahn), midgets & son Gabriel     Daughter?"

0427   "Mr. & Mrs. Brown Courtland."

0428   Portrait of young man.  (no identification)

0429   Portrait of young man.  (no identification)

0430   Portrait of an older woman.  (no identification)

0431   Woman holding child.  (Seated on front porch) - no identification.

0432   Portrait of woman.  (no identification)

0433   Portrait of a young man.  (no identification)

0434   Portrait of a young  woman.  (unidentified)

0435   "Sheldon Rufurt.  Age 19  June 29-29"

0436   "Jennie Tuttle."

0437   "Mrs. Walter Carpenter & Daughter."  (postcard)

0438   Unidentified man in western dress.

0439   Portrait of young man.  (unidentified)

0440   Two little girls and one boy---portrait-no identification.

0441   Portrait of  young man.  (no identification)

0442   Portrait of a young man.  (no identification)

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Family (cont.)

0443   Graduation portrait of young man-no identification.

0444   Young boy in uniform (boy scout?)-no identification.

0445   "Father Breese & Leon; 2 yr & weighs 27 lb."

0446   "Leon-Earl-Floyd Rockwell".  (portrait of them as boys)

0447   "L H Rockwell Sr."  (portrait of him as a toddler)

0448   "L H Rockwell 1892".  (portrait of him as a toddler)

0449   "Leon & William Brown when he came west."

0450   "L H & Bessie M. Rockwell when first married."

0451   "Floyd  1918"

0452   "This is the part of camp where I am now located."  (Army camp--

           identification of buildings on reverse of photo.)

0453   "Marjorie and Leon."  [Jr.]  (portrait of them as young children)

0454   "Marty."  (when she was a baby)

0455   Marjorie Rockwell as a young woman. 

0456   "Love Margie"  (Marjorie Rockwell)

0457   "Earl & May Rockwell wedding-Left to right standing, Mother Rockwell,.

           Leon Rockwell Sr., Bessie Rockwell, Harry Dale, Mrs. Arabella Dale.

           Sitting, May & Earl Rockwell."

0458   "4 generations: Mother Rockwell; Leon Rockwell, sr.; Margie Riley; Judith

           Riley."

0459   Bessie and Leon Rockwell, Sr.

0460   Marjorie Rockwell-portrait of a young woman.

0461   "Leon Rockwell Jr.  Class H2A.  Southwest Airways Inc.  Phoenix Arizona

           July 1941"

0462   Old Ranch 1916  Mabel Smalley, Geo. Deverale Sr.  Old time LV family.

          Railroad man.

0463   Prof. Barnett's daughter, Prof. Barnett's wife & baby, Leon Rockwell Sr.

          holding Margie, Bessie Rockwell.  Jean, Nevada-1917.

0464   "Floyd and Mother Rockwell-Camp Lewis, Wash.-1918"

0465   Mrs. Charlotte (Lottie) Rockwell and son Floyd Rockwell at Camp Lewis.

          (1918)

0466   Early Las Vegas personalities: Fred Tisdial, Pauline Tisdial, Lynn Botts,

          Isabell Botts, Earl Rockwell, Bessie Rockwell.

0467   Old time camp and fliver of the Rockwells.  Pictured are Mrs. Bessie Rockwell

          and children Margie and Leon Jr.

0468   Mrs. Leon Rockwell Sr.  (Bessie) in Death Valley, early 1920s.

0469   Lost City Pageant (old St. Thomas) 1920s.  Leon Jr., Margie, Bessie, Lottie.

0470   Early day Las Vegans-the George Sandersons (barber) and  Leon Rockwells.

0471   Early Las Vegans camp out: Gilda Mosbach (Earl in arms); Bessie Rockwell,

          Effie Rhodes.

0008

LEON ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Family (cont.)

 

0472   Early Las Vegans:  Bill & Alice Johnson, et al.

0473   Moapa  Valley.  Mrs. L.A. Rockwell, Gilda Mosback, Ray Mosback,

          Bessie Rockwell, Leon Jr., Leon Sr., James Adams, Harry Jameson,

          Mosback children, Margie Rockwell, Adams' girl.

0474   Mrs. Sam Lawson and Jessie Henderson.  (Sam Lawson was owner and

          founder of Southern Nevada Power and Southern Nevada Telephone Co.)

0475   Entire Mosback Family: Ray, Gilda, Rolline, Charlotte, (?).  Bessie and

          Leon Rockwell.

0476   Early Las Vegas on camping trip at Moapa, NV.  Jim and Lotty Adams and

          daughter.  Harry Jameson.  Ray and Gilda Mosback and daughters.  Earl

          Rockwell and Lottie Rockwell (mother).

0477   Fishing trip near Moapa.  Early Las Vegans:  Ray Mosback family, Jim Adams

          family, Leon Rockwell Sr. family.

0478   Early Las Vegans:  Jimmy & Lola Adams & daughter.  Bessie Rockwell

          (behind Earl), Earl Rockwell, Margie and Leon Jr.

0479   Early 1920s-Mrs. Leon Rockwell, Sr. and daughter Margie and Leon Jr.

          (behind bush)

0480   Family picnic, North 3rd St.  Leon Jr., Jack Tisdial, Margie Rockwell,

          Lorraine Henry, Georgia Brooks (?), 1920s.

0481   "Ray Mosback-Baby Earl."  [early 1920s, Las Vegas, Nev.]

0482   Leon Jr. and Margie Rockwell (Riley), front yard at 121 No. 3rd St.

          (Early 1920s)

0483   Margie Riley and Leon Jr. in front of father's electrical [    ] store on

          No. 3rd St.  (Fiesta Room), early 1920s.

0484   Leon Jr. and Margie Rockwell in front of Leon Sr.'s electrical supply co.

          Early 1920s, Las Vegas.

0485   Margie Rockwell (Riley) and brother Leon Rockwell Jr. in front of Las Vegas

          home, early 1920s.  (Fiesta Room of Fremont Hotel now in location where

          Rockwell home was.)

0486   Early Las Vegas campers-going to Mt. Charleston area.

0487   Rockwell Cabin, Mt. Charleston.  Standing: Dick Cornish (cobbler in LV),

          Earl Rockwell, Mrs. Sam Lawson, Bessie Rockwell, Allie Lawson.  Children:

          Leon Rockwell, Jr., Eugenia Lawson, Margie Rockwell.

0488   Lawson Cabin at Mt. Charleston.  Rockwell Family, Lawson Family (Mrs.

Lawson standing)

0489   Irene DeBrink and Elizabeth Dale Griffith (in overalls-lived at 123 N. 3rd, now

          lives in Glendale, Calif.).  Early Las Vegans coming from Mt. Charleston.

0490   Mrs. L.A. Rockwell; Earl Rockwell; Leon Rockwell; Bessie Rockwell; (?);

          (?) ; Pinky Hayford (?), on end.  Below-children.  1920s-at Mt. Charleston.

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Family, cont.)

 

0491   [Early 1920s]  "Me & Leon Jr., Margie, my salesman Mr. Briscoe & wife

           from Arizona.  Colorado River."

0492   Las Vegans-going to St. Thomas pageant-1920s (early).

0493   Early 1920s, Mt. Charleston, [Lawson Cabin or Rockwell Cabin?]

          Dick Cornish,  Mrs. Lawson & Eugenia, Leon & Bessie Rockwell and

          Children, Ally Lawson.

0494   Mrs. Sam Lawson and daughter Eugenia at Mt. Charleston.  Early 1920s.

0495   Mrs. Art Trelease, Sr. (?)  Taken by Leon, Sr. at Mt. Charleston. 

          Art Trelease-longtime fire chief and father of Las Vegas City Mgr. (?)

0496   Indian camp at Coyote Springs, Nevada (1923).  Take by Lynn Botts

          (Wadsworth)  or Leon Rockwell Sr.

0497   J. Warren Woodard (original owner of Downtown Chev. Co.), Leon

          Rockwell Jr. and Charlotte Mosback.  Photo taken at Long Beach, Calif.

0498   Leon Rockwell and Mrs. Margie Rockwell Riley in front of Leon Sr. store on

          North 3rd St., ca. 1925.

0499   Leon Rockwell Jr. at Vegas Wash-1926.

0500   "Leon Jr., Floyd, Rags-Earl's dog-our front yard, 3rd St."

           [Floyd was Leon Sr.'s younger brother-Las Vegas, 1926]

0501   Ronald Floyd Rockwell and Mrs. Margie (y) Rockwell Riley.  Adjacent to

          the Ed Von Tobel home in Las Vegas.  Ca. 1928-30.

0502   Mosback Family (early Las Vegas family), Long Beach, Calif., early 1930s.

0503   Roy Mosback (behind surf board), his daughter Rolline (kneeling).

0504   Rolline Mosback (Mrs. Clyde Kaye, lives in Ramona, CA).  At Rockwell home

          on No. 3rd St., Las Vegas, Nev., ca. early 1930s.

0505   Las Vegas, 1930s: Back row: Evelyn Young, (?), Margie Rockwell, Audrey

          Waters, (?),  ---Stivers.

0506   The Jimmy Adams and Leon Rockwell Sr. families having a picnic.

          Las Vegas-1930s

0507   Mrs. Leon Rockwell, Lottie Rockwell and Jenie Henderson and Panguitch

          Lake.  Ca. early 1930s.

0508   Leon Rockwell Sr. and daughter Margie (y) Rockwell on way to the Mt.

          Charleston cabin.  1930

0509   Campout-Mt. Charleston area.  Leon Sr., Leon Jr., Margie & Bessie.

          Ca. 1933.

0510   The Pete Hanfords (UPRR), lived on 3rd St., and the Leon Rockwells--

          camping 1930s.  On the way to Charleston.

0511   "Trout-one morning's catch-Leon [Rockwell] Jr.  Panguitch, Utah"

0512   Von Tobel home-1930s.  Second from left is ex-Sheriff Glen Jones' daughter

          Patty.

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Family & Friends (cont.)

 

0513   Margie Rockwell Riley, age 12.  At 121 no. 3rd St., Las Vegas, Nev.

0514   "Margie & Leon"-[121 No. 3rd St., Las Vegas, 1923]

0515   Margie Rockwell Riley-121 No. 3rd St.-1933.

0516   Leon Rockwell, Jr. and Thomas Bowman (at an early Westside grocer

          in Las Vegas).  Ca. 1933

0517   "Floyd Rockwell Bro".  W.W. I hero from Las Vegas, 6'6" in stocking feet.

          Brother of R.E. and Leon Rockwell Sr.

0518   Earl Rockwell at 118 ½ No. Third St.  (2nd Helldorado celebration)

0519   Bessie Rockwell-1st Helldorado-121 N. 3rd St.

0520   Marie and Charlie Dean, first Elks Helldorado in Las Vegas.

0521   1939-Mrs. Leon Rockwell-Loly and Harry Jameson at Colorado River.

0522   Hotel Nevada Biltmore-1940s.  Margaret McLaughlin.  No. Main St.,

          Las Vegas.

0523   Mrs. Leon Rockwell Sr.  (Bessie Stockton), Ray Mosback, Las Vegas,

          ca. 1940s.

0524   "Death Valley-April 6, 1941".  Ray, Fay, Eddie, Bessie & Leon Rockwell Sr.

0525   Las Vegas clan-Big Springs Cookout-1942.  "1942 corn roast: Jennie Ready,

          Isabell Botts, Harry Jameson, Lolly Jameson, Bobby Tisdial and someone's

          Baby, Fred Tisdial & Mrs. Walt Bond, Alice Johnson, Pauline Tisdial, Bessie

          Rockwell."

0526   Captain Leon H. Rockwell-Jan. 7, 1942.  (Born in Las Vegas, NV., 12/22/19)

0527   Old timers.Las Vegas.  Harry and Lollie Jameson, Gloria and Harry Jr.,

          Alice Johnson (Ladd), Pauline and Betty Marie Tisdale (sic), Elma Leland        

          (center).  July 4, 1943.

0528   Catherine Tisdial Graves (born in Las Vegas, 1920) with Terry.  (photo taken

          1944)

0529   Leon Rockwell Jr., 1st officer Western Air Lines-daughter Rosemary, 1945,

          Burbank, Calif.

0530   Leon Rockwell sr. winning Jackpot--$250, Nevada Club, 1960.

0531   Leon Rockwell Sr. in 1960s.

0532   "Leon Jr. & Rosie."

0533   Rosie and [husband?].

0534   "With Love to Grandma & Grandpa-Ricky-7th grade."

0535   Ricky in cub scout uniform.

0536   "Gerald E. Waters.Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana."

0537   June 4, 1966-Patsy & GE. Lehman Family:  Mike (6), Russ (2 ½), Ken

          (3 mos.).

0538   Ken Lehman (3 months), son of Patsy & Geo. Lehman.

0539   Judith Riley (as a toddler) holding her doll.

0008

ROCKWELL COLLECTION

 

Family & Friends (cont.)

 

0540   Portrait of young boy in military [school?] uniform.  No identification.

0541   Portrait of a young woman (color-tinted photo).  No identification.

0542   Portrait of two older women-no identification.  (c. early 1900s)

0543   Portrait of a young man.  (No identification)

0544   Portrait of a young woman in a swimsuit (posed against fake backdrop of a

          tropical island).  No identification.

0545   Mother holding baby.  (No identification)

0546   Nine (9) portraits of children and young adults.  (No identification)

0547   Family group posed in front of house.  (No identification)

0548   Wagon drawn by mules.  (No identification as to date or location.)

0549   Possible excavation site with human skulls, bones, etc.

0550   Tintype of baby.  (No identification)

0551   Tintype of young man.  (No identification)