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NYE COUNTY COLLECTION

Table of Contents:

Miscellaneous 1

Goodson (Tubb Ranch)

Toles (Ash Meadows Clay Pits)

Lowe

Records (Amargosa Valley)

Toles-Turner

Lisle

Revert

Crowell

Lemmon

Palsgrove

Reidhead (Beatty, Nevada)

Hughes (Pahrump Ranch)

Ruud (Pahrump, Nevada)

Turner (Pahrump, Nevada)

Wiley (Pahrump Valley)

Ford (Pahrump Valley, Nevada)

Hafen (Pahrump, Nevada)

Brown (Tecopa- Pahrump Area)

Fallini (Twin Springs Area)

Bradshaw (Goldfield, Tonopah, etc.)

Coombs (Tonopah Area)

Hooper (Miscellaneous locations)

Slavin (Kawich Mountains Area)

Terrell (Tonopah and area)

Miscellaneous 2

Maps

Moore (Tonopah, Nev.)

Potts

Miscellaneous 3

Boni (Manhattan, Nevada)

Hawkins (Duckwater, Nev.)

Carver (Smoky Valley, Nev.)

Cirac

Hanson (Gabbs, Nevada)

Rogers (Smoky Valley, Nev.)

Carver Duhme (Smoky Valley, Nev.)

Carver Book (Smoky Valley, Nev.)

O’Toole

Lofthouse (Round Mountain, Nev.)

Berg (Round Mountain)

Wilson (Miscellaneous Nye County)

Zaval (Smoky Valley and Round Mountain)

Miscellaneous 1

0001 Stage stop at Beatty, Nevada.
0002 California Hotel, Beatty, Nevada
0003 Beatty Store, Beatty, Nevada
0004 Beatty [cash] Store, Beatty, Nevada.
0005 Beatty Ranch - - Beatty, Nevada.
0006 Remick's Garage - - Beatty, Nevada
0007 Amargosa Hotel - - Beatty, Nevada.
0008 Main Street in Tonopah, Nevada
0009 Springdale, Nevada Brockman Family
0010 Bettles Brothers, around 1910, San Francisco. From left: Alex Bettles, A.J. Bettles, and Gordon Bettles.
0011 Gordon Bettles wearing his Masons fez, during the 1950s.
0012

The daughters of Gordon Bettles, pictured in 1935. Edith Bettles Brockman was Born June 19, 1916 and Helen Bettles was born June 7, 1917 in Mina, Nevada. Their mother was Edith Thirsting Peterson.

0013 Looking east toward Betty, Nevada, about 1978. Land is being cleared for the Alta Vista Trailer Park.
0014

After Gordon Bettles moved to the Armagosa Valley, his daughter Edith and her Husband, frank Brockman, moved to Beatty, Nevada, in the late 1950s, purchased Land where T&T Railroad engines once had been serviced, and constructed the Desert Inn Motel. This picture was taken shortly after the motel began operating.

0015 Desert Inn Motel in Beatty, Nevada. Beatty Mountain sits in background.
0016 Frank Brockman, a Beatty resident, is pictured in the early 1960s with a Beatty
Burro in Reno, Nevada, to publicize the Beatty Burro Race.
0017 Frank Brockman speaking at a meeting concerning the Beatty Burro Races, early 1960s.
0018 Frank Brockman, son- in - law of Gordon Bettles, at his home in Bishop, California, 1980s.
0019 Former Beatty, Nevada, residents Frank Brockman and Edith Bettles Brockman, 1980s.
0020 Frank Brockman, former Beatty, Nevada, resident, in the 1980s. Fishel (T&T Ranch)
0021

A landscape view of fields and trees planted by Gordon and Billy Bettles on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1955.

0022

Inscription on the back of the original photo reads; "Grapes planted April 1917, Trees planted Februarry 1917". View of the original ranch house on the T&T Armagosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1925

0023

Inscription on the back of the original photo, written by Billie Bettles in the 1980s reads: "This [picture] was made the day they were cutting rye, 1949"… The man on the right is Gordon Bettles and the 2 men on the left are unidentified, Though the man on the far left may be M.P. "Gless" Glessner.

0024

The corner of what is currently (1990) Mecca Road and Highway 373, Armagosa Valley, Nevada, August 1962. The foundation of the Mecca Club I being laid. A Packard automobile is visible in the background. The woman is dressed in black Blouse with her back to the camera is Billie Bettles. Bob Fishel, Billie Bettles's Son by a former marriage is visible on the far left.

0025

Stacked hay, probably on the T&T Ranch, ca. 1925. The gentlemen in white shirts And dark ties may be executives of the T&T Railroad. The inscription on the back Of the original photo reads: "Alex Stachau" [or some such spelling, the script is Difficult to read] "C.R. 66462, 848 Doheny Street.

0026 Water flowing from a well on Gordon and Billie Bettles's farm, T&T Ranch, Armagosa Valley, NV., ca. 1953
0027

Horse-drawn mowing machine, T &T Ranch, Armagosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920 Persons pictured are unidentified.

0028 Wagons, haystacks, ducks, and chickens pictured on the T&T Ranch, Armagosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920.
0029 Outbuildings at the t&t Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, date unknown, perhaps Ca. 1920
0030 Home of Gordon and Billie Bettles, T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1949.
0031

The inscription in Billie Bettles's hand on the back of the original photo reads: "June 1953". Pictured here are alfalfa fields and trees on the T&T Ranch, Armagosa Valley, Nevada.

0032

The inscription on the back of the original photo reads: "June 1953, Gordon on The hay wagon". Billie Bettles is driving the tractor on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada.

0033

Inscription on the back of the original photo reads: "Sugar beets" Buildings Pictured on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley Nevada, ca. 1920.

0034 A child feeding chickens and turkeys on the T&T Ranch, probably ca. 1920.
0035 Hogs pictured on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920.
0036 A young girl pictured in a field of the T7T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920.
0037

The inscription on the back of the original photo reads: "Mowing alfalfa, in the
Right hand corner is the height of alfalfa". A horse-drawn mowing machine is
Pictured. T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, NV., ca. 1920, looking west across the
Valley.

0038 Alfalfa field, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, NV., ca. 1920. Ranch and out buildings visible in the distance.

0039

Geese, or perhaps turkeys, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920.
Ranch buildings visible in the background, along with a women dressed in white
Standing behind one of the fenceposts. A child is seated watching the birds.

0040

Women pictured with a diary cow, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca.
1920. Cresote bushes are visible in the background.

0041 Billie Bettles with her granddaughter, Maryanne hensyel, 1985.
0042 House and garden belonging to Gordon and Billie Bettles, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, NV. Ca. 1950
0043

The inscription on the back of the original photo reads: "The gourd, vine and 3 melons that weighed 22 pounds, 26 pounds, and 25 pounds". Grown by the Bettles on their farm on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1955. Home is visible in the background.

0044

Flowering fruit trees in front of the home of Gordon and Billie Bettles, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1957.

0045

Interior of the Mecca Club, located at the junction of Mecca Road and Highway 373, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, late 1970s

0046 M.P. "Gless" Glessner sitting on the Ford tractor belonging to Gordon Bettles, preparing soil on the T&T ranch for alfalfa seed, ca. 1952.

0047 Preparing the soil for planting, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, NV., ca. 1952.
0048 Preparing the soil for planting - - Amargosa Valley, about 1952. Funeral Mountains are visible in the west.
0049 Same as above.
0050

Irrigating land newly planted in alfalfa, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, about 1952 or 1954. Gordon Bettles is pictured with a shovel. The child pictured In the foreground is a niece of Bob Fishel and Betty Lou Kemp, daughter of M.P."Gless" Glessner.

0051 Irrigated land newly planted in alfalfa. T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1954.

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GOODSON (TUBB RANCH)

0052

T.D.L. "Kitty" Tubb, on her ranch in Ash Meadows, Nevada. The bell directly aAbove her head is from the old Greenwater School. The Tubbs originally settled in Ash Meadows about 1900.

0053 Robert McGomery Tubb, son of T.D.L. "Kitty" Tubb.
0054 Swimming in Deep Spring, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, middle 1950s. Gloria Miller is in the water in front on the left.

0055 Judy Tubb and Nancy Tubb on the family farm, Ash Meadows, Nye County,
Nevada, early 1950s.
0056 The Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, early 1950s.
0057

The Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, NV., early 1950s. The saddle horse, Diamond, carried the Helldorado Queen in the parade in Las Vegas one year during the early 1950s….

0058 The Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nevada. Several horses pictured. (1950s)
0059

The Tubb Ranch, early 1950s. Left to right are Judy Tubb, Nancy Tubb, and Jessie Bishop, a resident of Ash Meadows.

0060

Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nevada, early1950s. Dean Hale had just gotten out of the service and was visiting the ranch and was totally blind at the time.

0061 Bob Tubb at the Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada about 1930s.
0062 A photograph of a leaf from an unknown book featuring pictures of Pahrump, Nevada.
0063

Leaf from an unknown book showing Louis Avariaz standing proudly by his horse in front of the Pahrump Store, Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada, 1916.

0064

Nancy and Gloria Miller, visitors from Pasadena, California, riding the hay wagon at the Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, middle 1950s.

0065

Gloria and Nancy Miller (visitors from Pasadena, CA) standing atop the hay wagon at the Tubb Ranch, middle 1950s.

0066

Virginia Tubb getting a kiss from her horse, Tubb Ranch, about 1950 or 1951. Virginia's sister is sitting on her horse. The men pictured are Richard Gulack and Fred Tewilliger, a friend from Del Mar, CA.

0067

Nancy Tubb (right) gets a kiss from her horse at the Tubb Ranch, about 1950 or 1951. Virginia Tubb Goodson is sitting on her horse.

0068

Fred Tewilliger, a guest from Del Mar, CA, stands beside a horse on the Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows 1950 or 1951.

0069 Hay barn and corn crib at the Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, about 1951.
0070

T.D.L. "Kitty" Tubb, known as "Shotgun Kitty Tubb" because she never went anywhere without a shotgun (bar or restaurant, it didn't matter), grandmother of Virginia Tubb Goodson, and her husband Robert Tubb, Sr. and their sons, George and Robert Tubb.

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TOLES (ASH MEADOWS CLAY PITS)

0071

Left to right: Beulah Pardee, Jack Pardee, "Dude" Pardee, residents of Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.

0072

"Dud" Pardee, and her brother Wes Pardee, Ash Meadows, Nevada, residents, ca. 1933.

0073

Jepperson children, Louise and Tom, residents of Ash Meadows, Nevada, c. 1933 "Seems like I heard Tom was a World War II hero. I think they all moved to Tonopah or Goldfield during the war", says Herb Toles, a former resident
Himself.

0074.

A.T. Sheppard, Superintendent for the Coen Company, which operated the clay pits, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.

0075 Jess Toles displays a bobcat taken with bow and arrow, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.
0076 Unidentified children swimming in the pool at Crystal Springs, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.
0077

Clay crew and equipment used to mine clay from the Bell Pit, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933. L-R: Glen Jepperson, dragline operator; Jess Toles, mechanic and driver of the narrow gauge train; Jack Pardee, dump man; Mac Mckinna,
Miner. (Resume of mining operations and duties of crew members behind photo).

0078 Drag line used at Bell Pit, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.
0079

Narrow gauge ore train used to haul clay from the Bell Pit to an off- loading ramp on the standard gauge tracks of the T&T Railroad, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.

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LOWE

0080

Gasoline tractor operated by Dave Fairbanks, uncle of Celesta Lisle Lowe. Dave Fairbanks is standing on the right in the white shirt. The tractor was used to haul Gold ore from a mine in Death Valley - - Zabriskie. The picture was probably taken between 1910 and 1915.

0081

Shoshone, California, between 1910 and 1915. Herman Jones is second from the left. Fourth from the right is Celesta Fairbanks. The tent is probably occupied by a visitor. The Fairbanks' home is in the background.

0082.

Resting Spring, California, prior to 1900. Bob Lee, the shorter man in the white Shirt, is pictured with his brother Dick Lee.

0083

John Quincy Lisle, father of Celesta Lisle Lowe, standing beside an ore wagon intended for use in a sodium sulphate mine, Moapa Valley, Nevada, area about 1930. Lisle's son- in-law, Harry Adams, and son Ralph Lisle are at left.

0084

Resting Spring, California, looking west. The picture was taken from a small Mountain. just behind Resting Spring. The roof of the old stone cabin, constructed Before 1900, is visible at the far left.

0085

R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks in Shoshone, California, early 1920s, before he moved to Baker, California. Cabins in the background were moved from Greenwater, California, and the building directly behind Fairbanks was used as a school, where Celesta Lowe attended 1st or 2nd grade.

0086

Goodsprings Hotel, Goodsprings, Nevada, purchased by Deke and Celesta Lowe in 1945. The building was constructed in 1916 by the Fayle family; the Lowes Resided there from 1945 to 1951. The building burned to the ground in 1966. This Photo was taken in the late 1950s.

0087

Baker, California. The top photo, a composite, was taken about 1928, when R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks first moved to Baker and established a service station on the west Side of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad tracks. Photo on the bottom left Shows Death Valley; on the right is a photo of Hoover Dam.

0088 Snowfall at Greenwater, California, prior to 1907.
0089

Celestia Adelaide Fairbanks, wife of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks, and Celesta Fairbanks (mother of Celesta Lowe) at age 16, Annabelle, Utah. This photo taken shortly Before Celestia Fairbanks joined her husband at Fairbanks Spring, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, about 1905.

0090

Celesta Spede Johnson and her husband, David Philo Johnson, great-grandparents of Celesta Lisle Lowe. She was the mother of 16.

0091

Family picture taken at the home of Deke and Celesta Lowe, Good Springs, Nevada, 1985. Deke Lowe is 3rd from the right in back, and Celesta Lowe is at the Far right in the back. All other family members are identified in the verbatim text.

0092

Fairbanks Spring, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, between 1905 and 1907. R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks resided at this site between 1905 and 1907. and is at the far Right in the photo.

0093

Probably the Amargosa Siding, but could be the Johnnie Siding, on the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railraod, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1910.

0094

John Quincy "Jack" Lisle, center, father of Celesta Lowe, at a prospector's cabin, date and location unknown. Others unidentified.

0095.

R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks at the age of 70, a month or so before moving to and establishing a community at Baker, California, about 1925.

0096

The facilities and "community" established by R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks, Fairbanks Spring, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada. The photo was taken in 1907.

0097 Celesta Lisle Lowe at her home at 2525 E. Twain, Las Vegas, Nevada, Christmas, about 1965.
0098

Graduation picture, Celesta Lisle Lowe, granddaughter of R.J."Dad" Fairbanks. She graduated from El Monte High School in California; photo taken in 1934.

0099

David Walker "Deke" Lowe, Jr., at the central train control panel, where he worked as a train dispatcher from 1950 to 1960. The control facility was located at Union Station, Las Vegas, Nevada, present site of the Union Plaza Hotel.

0100

Two daughters of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks, Vonola Fairbanks, and Stella Fairbanks Brown. Vonola is standing. The photo was taken in Long Beach, California.

0101 Ralph Jacobus "Dad" Fairbanks, Shoshone, California, ca. 1920.
0102

Second from Left is Celesta Lisle, daughter of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks. Next to her
are her Brother Vern, mother Celestia Fairbanks. Others are unidentified. Photo-
graph appears to have been taken at Green Water, California, between 1907 and
1910.

0103

China Ranch, Amargosa River area, early 1920s. L-R: Glynn Lisle, John Lisle,
Ralph Lisle; Bernice, Charles, George Brown, and perhaps Celesta Lisle Lowe
May also be pictured. The woman standing at the right is Celestia Fairbanks, wife
Of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks.

0104

The boarding house constructed by R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks and his wife, Celestia, at
Shoshone, California, shortly after their founding of the community in 1910. The
Woman at left is Celestia Fairbanks; next to her is her husband, "Dad"; the man to
The left of the dog is Shorty Harris; next to him is Herman Jones; the 3rd man
Down from Herman is Charlie Brown, in white shirt and dark pants. Sitting on
Post at far right is man the world would later know as Sir Harry Oakes. Photo
Taken about 1915. (More info behind photo)

0105

John Quincy "Jack" Lisle, father of Celesta Lowe, shortly after his marriage to Celesta Fairbanks, Santa Monica, California, March 1907.

0106

Celesta Lisle, daughter of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks, with her daughter Glyn Lisle (Thomas). Photo taken in Hayward, California, about 1909.

0107

John Quincy "Jack' Lisle at the edge of the reservoir on his homestead in the Las Vegas Valley, about 1930. (More info. behind photo)

0108 Margaret Garner, John Quincy "Jack" Lisle's niece, driving at Lake Tahoe about 1929.
0109 Greenwater, California, about 1907. Persons in the photo not identified.
0110

Celestia Adelaide Johnson Fairbanks and her husband, Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks, Shoshone, California, about 1920. Everybody called them "Ma" and "Dad" Fairbanks.

0111

Death Valley Junction, California, 1924. Shortly after the hotel was constructed, the Pacific Coast Borax Company constructed a swimming pool and planted a number of trees in the square. The building at the left end of the square is the company store. An infirmary was established at the right end of the square. The Uppermost track going off to the left toward the middle of the photo, is the narrow gauge to Ryan. Funeral Mountains in the backgrounds.

0112

Parents of David Walker"Deke" Lowe, Jr., David Walker and Frances Columbus Kinkaid Lowe, Tecopa, California, about 1922 or 1923.

0113

Photo taken at the Noonday Mine, located about 10 miles east of Tecopa, California, in 1936 or 1937. Dr. Lincoln. D. Godshall, the mine's owner (Manager), is on the left, David Walker "Deke" Lowe, Jr., is in the middle and a man known only as Uncle Billy, the watchman at the mine for many years, is on the right.

0114 Celestia Johnson Fairbanks and Ralph Jacobus "Dad" Fairbanks, Baker, California, about 1930.

0115

Second from left is Death Valley Scotty (Frank Scott) at Death Valley Scotty's Castle, Death Valley, California, 1952. At far left is Lisle Lowe; on Scotty's left are Janet Lowe, David Walker "Deke" Lower, Jr., and Dale Lowe. (More info Behind the photo)

0116 The Standard Slag Mine and Mile above Tecopa, California, in the Kingston Mountains. Undated.

0117

Phi Lee in front of his home at Resting Spring, about 5 miles east of Tecopa, California. This photo was taken before 1900, perhaps before 1890. Lee is the Father of the two boys, Bob and Dick Lee, pictured in #0221 0082.

0118

Engine No.1 of the Tecopa Railroad, which ran from Tecopa to the Noonday and Gunsight Mines. This picture was taken in the 1920s, after the railroad had folded.


0119 Tweed Wilson, an Indian who was grandson of the founder of Wilson Ranch west of Las Vegas, Nevada (the ranch is now known as Spring Mountain State Park) and David Walker "Deke" Lowe, Jr., at Phi Lee's residence in the Charleston Mountains, about 1956.

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Records (Amargosa Valley)

0120

Amargosa Valley, Nevada, 1959 or 1960, looking southwest toward the Funeral the Funeral Mountains. The property pictured is on the corner of Section 7. The Home pictured was a frame structure moved from Las Vegas. It is the first town- built home in the Amargosa Farm Area. The trees pictured here were as high as 50 Feet in 1988.

0121

Digging a ditch for installation of a 10" water line to supply a sprinkler system in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980.

0122

Amargosa Valley looking southwest toward the Funeral Mountains, 1980, showing a 10" water line and pump to supply a circle sprinkler system. The pump is a 75 horsepower electric turbine pump that supplies two sprinkler systems with a total of 1,450 gallons per minute. At that capacity, the pump only draws water Down 3 inches in the well.

0123

Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, looking west over land in Section 7, Township17S, Range 49E. The soil is fine -grained and contains few rocks. The profile of the Funeral Mountains in the distance is referred to locally as the " Old man", with the notch below the sharp pointed peak forming the open mouth of a sleeping man, his body stretching to the left.

0124

Land on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1958 or 1959. Commercial electricity was not available in the Amargosa Valley until 1964. Until then all water pumping was down with combustion engines running at the Wells. Pictured here is a butane- operated motor, running a pump on the property belonging to Hank Records.

0125

Ditch leading to an overhead pivot sprinkler system on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980, looking west toward the Funeral Mountains.

0126

Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980. Pivot watering system has just been installed on the property belonging to Hank Records and the alfalfa is beginning to grow. When alfalfa is first seeded, oats are planted as a cover crop. The oats, which protect the tender alfalfa seedlings, are later cut, and the alfalfa takes over.

0127

Pivot irrigation system operating on land belonging to Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980. Alfalfa and oats have just been planted. The Boy pictured is the son of a Mexican farmhand.

0128

Undetermined location in Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1959,
Showing saplings that were newly planted.

0129

The trailer holds alfalfa pellets produced on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada 1984. Note the many horse tracks, horse droppings, and scattering of alfalfa cubes left by wild horses which are a constant problem for farmers in the Amargosa Valley Farm Area.

0130

At left, Nye County Deputy Sheriff Glen Henderson, whose area of responsibility iIncluded Beatty, the Amargosa Valley and Pahrump; at right, Hank Records, Amargosa Valley Farm Area pioneer; celebrating in their new leather jackets in
Las Vegas, about 1968. Henderson's home in the Amargosa Valley became known locally as "Fort Henderson" and is sometimes still called that. It is located not far from the present (1988) site of the Senior Center.

0131

Alfalfa cubes produced on the property of Hank Records, in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1984.

0132

Damaged alfalfa bales on the property of Hank Records, in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1984.

0133

An antique cattle chute owned by Hank Records, used for more then 30 years, although it is much older. Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1988.

0134

Water flowing from a pump located on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1979. The view is toward the west.

0135 The same alfalfa fields shown in Photographs #121, 122, 123 of this collection. A Swath has been cut through the mature alfalfa. Looking towards the south, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada about 1980.

0136

Horses on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1956. The colt, named Cindy, was 32 years old in 1988; she pictured with her mother and several other mares.

0137

House constructed by Hank Records on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa valley, Nye County, Nevada. Records and his brother Robert planted many trees in the valley about the time this photograph was taken, ca. 1955. Balm of Gileads, maples, Elms, and other varieties were planted.

0138

Detroit diesels powering pumps on Hank Records' property, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada. About 1956. Diesels were installed by Mantzer Detroit Diesels out of Sparks, Nevada. Records brought the trailer in the background
From Prescott, Arizona; it was the first structure in the Amargosa Valley Farm area aside from those on the T&T Ranch. The trees are Balm of Gileads.

0139 The first building constructed in the Amargosa Valley aside from those on the T &T Ranch, middle 1950s. Hank Records property, Nye County, Nevada.

0140

Robert Records, pictured, and his brother Hank were the first settlers in the Amargosa Valley Farm Area in the middle 1950s. Records stands beside a pump on the Records' property.

0141

Ribbon-cutting ceremony at the dedication of the All -Purpose Building, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, November 2, 1984. On the right are pictured former Nye County Commissioner, Jacque Ruud, Nye County
Commissioner Bob Revert, Betty-Jo Boyd. State Senator Ken Redelsperger is in the mustache and white collar, beside and slightly to the left back of Boyd. Others Unidentified.

0142 Robert Records, Amargosa Valley Farm Area pioneer, about 1960.
0143

From left, Hank Richards with Ann Redelsperger and State Senator Ken Redelsperger at the dedication of the All -Purpose Building, Amargosa Valley Nye County, Nevada, Nevada, November 2, 1984. Records was asked to be the
Dedicator at the ceremony because he was the first to arrive in the valley and take advantage of the "Desert Entry Program", and with his brother Robert, he "knew what years people came".

0144 Property developed by Hank Records in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1974. Looking can west at the Funeral Mountains, showing the profile of the "old man of the mountains".

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Toles-Turner

0145

Clay Camp, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, 1940 or 1941. The Clay Camp was located northeast of Death Valley Junction, on the Nevada side of the state Line. Jess Toles, grandfather of Joan Toles Turner, is on the left. K.K. Miller is on the right.

0146

Death Valley Junction with a mushroom cloud resulting from open air atomic testing at the nearby Nevada Test Site rising in the background. Probably 1951. The railroad station in the background was moved to Lathrop Wells, where it was used as a brothel. Prior to being moved, the station served as a schoolhouse.

0147 Front entrance to the Furnace Creek Ranch, Death Valley, California, about 1938 or 1939.

0148

Joan Toles Turner playing on a boardwalk beside the home of her grandparents, Jess and Myrtle Toles at Clay Camp, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada 1939.

0150 Clay Camp, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, about 1940. The house in the background is constructed of railroad ties. At left are Myrtle and Jess Toles with Granddaughter, Joan Toles Turner. Bedie Miller is at the far right.

0151 Death Valley Junction about 1930 or 1940. Tonopah and Tidewater car and station are in the background.

0152

Joan Toles Turner, Death Valley Junction, California, 1949. When this photo was taken the lodge was a dinner house with a number of rooms which guests could stay; Ash Meadows Lodge did not become a brothel until a number of years later.

0153

Clay Camp, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, about 1940. From left are Myrtle Toles, grandmother of Joan Toles Turner; Dwayne Baker, a self - Employed truck driver and friend of the Toles's; Mrs. Baker; and Jess Toles.

0154

From left are Jess and Myrtle Toles, grandparents of Joan Toles Turner; Jean Toles, Joan Toles Turner's mother; and father Jess Toles, about 1940. Joan Toles Turner is standing in front of her mother, and sister Jean is being held by her Grandmother.

0155 A ramp from which cars of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad dumped their ore for processing, Death Valley Junction, California, 1939. (NOTE: The perspective of this photograph is reversed from the original.)

0156 Herb Toles and family, in the clay camp in Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1941.

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Lisle

0157 Florence Palsgrove, left, and Chloe Lisle, about 1933.
0158 Chloe Lisle, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, 1932 or 1933.
0159 Photograph from a page of unidentified source featuring pictures of aspects of work associated with Beatty's Episcopal Church. Enlargements of these pictures are featured in Photographs #160-164, and #166 of this collection.

0160 Rear of Beatty's Episcopal Church on Main Street, date unknown.
0161 Outhouse used at Beatty's Episcopal Church, probably 1940s or 1950s.
0162

A trailer occupied by Ken Priest, priest at the Beatty Episcopal Church. He occupied the trailer upon first coming to Beatty in the early 1950s.

0163 Beatty Episcopal Church workers' living quarters, prior to upgrading, probably 1950s.

0164 Unidentified Beatty children. Date unknown.

0165

Dedication of the Beatty Fire Hall (known in 1988 as the Ambulance Hall), located on 4th and Montgomery, ca. 1960.

0166 Beatty Episcopal Church, Main Street, date unknown.

0167

Photograph from an unidentified newspaper showing dedication and ribbon- cutting ceremonies at the Beatty Fire Hall, Beatty, Nevada (called the Ambulance Hall in 1988), July 4th, 1960s.

0168

Demonstrators protesting nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, early 1950s. Ralph Lisle was Justice of the Peace in Beatty at the time. This photograph was reproduced from a newspaper clipping, date and issue unknown.

0169 Dedication of the Beatty Fire Hall (known in 1988 as the Ambulance Hall), July 4th, 1960s.

0170 Demonstrators protesting nuclear testing at the Nev. Test Site during the early 1950s. This photo was reproduced from a newspaper clipping, date and issue unknown.

0171

Persons who were among demonstrators protesting nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, early 1950s. Ralph Lisle, Beatty Justice of the Peace, is at the far right. This photograph is a reproduction of a picture contained in an unidentified news Paper.

0172

Beatty, Nevada, school picture, 1938. Back row, far left, Mr. Dees, teacher of Grades 5 through 8. Chloe Lisle, second from the left in the back row, taught grades 1 thought 4. Ert Moore, principal and high school teacher, is the bald-
Headed man standing next to Chloe Lisle. Robert Revert is the tall boy with glasses in the back row. Johnny Cobb is the tall boy next to Revert. In the front row at far left is Dewey Ishmael; Jack Crowell (blond - haired boy in the striped
Shirt) is sitting in the middle of the front row. Several Indian children attended the school. All others not identified.

0173

A rare photograph of M.M. "Old Man" Beatty, occupant of the Beatty Ranch at the time of Rhyolite's founding, and namesake of the town of Beatty, Nevada. Date and name of newspaper (from which photo was taken) unknown.

0174

Looking north up Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, following a flood in the early 1930s. The old Revert Store with its rounded flood in the early 1930s. The old Revert Store with its rounded roof is visible in the distance on the left, and a sign for the Mayflower Hotel can be seen on the right.

0175

Mrs. Bennett, a school teacher at Beatty, Nevada, about 1933. Mrs. Bennett was from Johnnie, Nevada. This picture was taken in Beatty.

0176

The Beatty Auto Court, know as the "Yellow Cabins", 1930s. The cabins were Located on the far side of the Amargosa River channel as one enters town from the north.

0177 Beatty, Nevada, looking northwest, 1930s. The railroad station in visible on the left.

0178 Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, looking north, early 1930s. Note the unpaved roads, Cottonwood trees lining the street, canopies over store fronts, and partially visible sign for the Exchange Hotel on the right.

0179

A highway sign is being readied at the Beatty Auto Court, Beatty, Nevada, early 1930s. The sign was painted by Chloe Lisle's stepfather and was placed 30 miles down the highway toward Las Vegas, in the vicinity of Lathrop Wells, Nevada. This picture is particularly valuable because it provides a listing of many of the businesses located in Beatty at the time.

0180

View from the Beatty Auto Court looking northeast to the highway across the Amargosa River channel, on the north end of Beatty, early 1930s. Heavy Equipment is engaged in road paving.

0181

Blacktopping activities on the highway at the north and of Beatty, looking north east across the Amargosa River channel from the Beatty Auto Court, early 1930s.

0182

Ore mill near Carrara, Nevada, early 1930s. Ore from the Gold Ace Mine was Processed here. The mill was powered by diesel electricity generated at the mill site. Vic Retterer and his son Homer ran the diesel plant.

0183

Panamint City, California, early 1940s. By this time Panamint City was pretty much a ghost town, but Ralph Lisle and his partners lived here while working a nearby tungsten mine. Because there was no road from Panamint City to the
Mine, all transporting was done by burros, shown here loaded with cargo.

0184

Lottie Mills, mother of Chloe Lisle, on the front porch of her home on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, early 1930s. The house burned down in the 1950s; in 1988 the site was occupied by Beatty's TV station.

0185 Lottie Mills, mother of Chloe Lisle, with two pack burros, Panamint City, California, early 1940s.

0186 Chloe Lisle and her son Jimmy Lisle on Montgomery Street, Beatty, Nevada, 1946. During World War 2 gas and tires were scarce, so many people rode bicycles around town.

0187

Left to right, Bill Martin, Ralph Lisle, Phillip Lisle, and Sam Colvin, brother of Chloe Lisle, in Panamint City, California, early 1940s. The men were partners in a tungsten mine outside Panamint City.

0188

Jimmy Lisle, son of Chloe and Ralph Lisle, pictured with his maternal grand Mother Lottie Mills, in the front yard of a house on Montgomery Street, Beatty Nevada, about 1944. The Beatty Town Hall is visible in the distance. The hall
Was originally the Miners' Union Building in Rhyolite, Nevada, and was moved to Beatty. The Beatty Police Station and the Fire Hall now (1988) sit at the approximate location of this old Town Hall.

0189 Man known as "Gasoline" Bill pictured in front of the Revert Store on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, early 1930s.
0190

Ballarat, California, in the foothills of the Panamint Mountains near Trona. Pictured is the home of "Seldom-Seen Slim". Left to right, Matt Ryan, an employee of the U.S. Park Service; Seldom-Seen Slim; Lottie Mills, and mother
Of Chloe Lisle; a woman who worked in Trona but whose name is not recalled; and Chris West, who lived up Surprise Canyon in the Panamint Mountains.

0191

Front of the Episcopal Church, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930. Left to right, Mrs. Ray, Mrs. Albert Revert, Edith Revert, unidentified women, Mrs. O'Brien, Mrs. McRea, and Mrs. Harvey. The Episcopal Church was the only church in town at that time.

0192

Chloe Lisle talking to Red Mills in front of the barber shop on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, about 1932. Lisle was taking haircutting lessons at the barber shop at that time, and Red Mills, Homer and Vic Retterer, and Lisle's brother,
Sam Colvin, allowed her to practice her haircutting skills on them.

0193 Lottie Mills, Chloe Lisle, and Jimmy Lisle, early 1940s.

0194

Phillip Lisle, brother of Ralph Lisle, with 3 pack burros heading for a tungsten Mine located out of Panamint City, California, early 1940s.

0195

Ralph Lisle with 2 pack burros used to transport supplies and ore to and from his Tungsten mine located out of Panamint City, California, early 1940s.

0196

Looking west at the yard of Lottie Mills, mother of Chloe Lisle, Beatty, Nevada, about 1932. The Beatty Episcopal Church is faintly visible on the very far left of the picture, between the fence post and the bush. The Old Town Hall is also visible in the distance.

0197

Left to right, Lorraine Thomas, Babe Palsgrove, Chloe Lisle, and Florence Phinney. Beatty, Nevada, early 1930s.

0198

Front of the store next to the Exchange Club, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, early 1930s. C.G. Johnson, stepfather to Chloe Lisle, was proprietor of the store, which housed the Beatty Post Office in a corner.

0199

Warm Springs, Nevada, located 50 miles east of Tonopah on Highway 6, either 1937 or 1938. A bar stood to the left of the building pictured here, and a school stood to the left of the building pictured here, and a school stood to the right, near the present (1988) site of the big, stone corral. Mrs. Wilson ran a boarding house in the largest building pictured here.

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Revert

0200

The Revert Brothers' 76 Station, located on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, 1957. Leaning on the hood of the car is Bob Revert. Learning against the building is Norman Revert. Dolf Goole is in the foreground in the white shirt and next to him with his back to the camera, is Red O'Leary. Art Revert is visible in the background, second from the right.

0201 Art Revert filling a bulk truck at the Revert Brothers' Union Oil Bulk Plant, Beatty Nevada, about 1956.

0202

Interior of the Exchange Club, Beatty, Nev., 1950. Murphy Breedlove is behind the bar talking to Robert Revert, Nye County Deputy Sheriff responsible for Southern Nye County. At the end of the bar is Red O'Leary. Norman Revert is watching his brother, Art Revert, play the slot machines.

0203

Interior of the railroad depot at Rhyolite, Nevada, early 1950s. Mr. Heisler, who, with his wife, ran the depot for many years, is near the window; Art Revert is leaning on the back of the chair at far right.

0204

Albert Revert, patriarch of the Beatty Reverts, ca. 1930, when Revert was in his 60s. This photo was taken at the south end of town.

0205

In May 1956 Minute Man Magazine, a publication of the Union Oil Company, ran an illustrated article on the Revert Brothers' Union Oil Station and Bulk plant located in Beatty, Nevada. This picture appeared on the cover of that issue. It features Robert Revert in the background and his two children, Mark Revert And Elaine Revert. Mark Revert died tragically at the age of 5, and Elaine Revert now lives in Las Vegas and is married to Brad Richardson. The photograph was taken on the old Beatty Ranch, then owned by the Reverts.

0206

The Revert brothers, Norman, Robert, and Art, on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, 1956. Photograph appeared in an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.

0207

Dolf Goole works on the first street light in Beatty, Nevada. Photograph appeared in an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.

0208

Service station at Lathrop Wells, Nevada, leased by the Reverts from Bob Wheel Lock. Photograph appeared in an article on the Revert brothers in the May 1956 issue of Minute Man Magazine.

0209

Death Valley Scotty's Castle, located 60 miles from Beatty, Nevada. Art Revert looks at the Castle. Photograph appeared in the May 1956 issue of the Minute Man Magazine, in conjunction with an article on the Revert Brothers.

0210

Robert Revert is pictured with a new Ford automobile in Beatty, Nevada. Photo Graph appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.

0211

Mining operation in the vicinity of Beatty, Nevada. Photograph appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine.

0212

Beatty residents gather to view a new Mercury automobile. The Revert brothers were Ford- Mercury dealers in Beatty. Photography appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.

0213

Part of the Beatty, Nevada, water system during the 1950s. The system was owned by the Revert brothers. Photograph appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.

0214

Art and Norman Revert examine ore specimens at the Boyd-Endseley Mining Company Mill. Photograph appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert Brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.

0215 Stagecoach and horses, probably southern Nye County, Nevada, before 1910.
0216 Early shot of Tonopah, Nevada. The woman is unidentified.
0217

Famous picture of a lighting strike in Tonopah, Nevada. Photograph taken by Mimosa Pittman, wife of Senator Key Pittman; copyrighted 1904.

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Crowell

0218

Don Finley, (in the hat) and his friend Jack Parsons, obtaining water for Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains southwest of Beatty, Nevada. Water is being taken from a well in a canyon east of Chloride Cliff.

0219

Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains, located Southwest of Beatty, Nevada, about 1914. Originally Crowell and his associates lived in dugout dwellings near the mine. The buildings in the foreground are a part of what they called "New Camp".

0220

Construction of the mill at Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains, southwest of Beatty, Nevada. 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.

0221

Horses pulling part of either a compressor or an engine up the trail to Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains, southwest of Beatty, Nevada, probably about 1914. This photograph illustrates the difficulty in Moving equipment in the early days in southern Nye County, Nevada.

0222

Road located near the Oasis Ranch in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada. The automobile is a 1914 Ford purchased by J. Irving Crowell, Jr., for $90. Photo probably taken between 1920 and 1922.

0223

Christmastime in the dugout dwelling occupied by Josiah Irving Crowell at his Chloride Cliff mine, located in the Funeral Mountains southwest of Beatty, Nevada. Picture taken around 1915, possibly earlier.

0224

Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad as it crossed the Amargosa River about 8 to 10 miles south of Tecopa, California, around 1915.

0225

Home of J. Irving Crowell, Jr., and Dorothy Crowell, Beatty, Nevada, 1919. At that time the home was occupied by Crowell's father Josiah Irving Crowell, who had moved to Beatty from his mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains.

0226

Surface structures at the Crowell fluorspar mine, located in the Care Mountains east of Beatty, Nevada; photo taken in 1939 or 1940. The Crowell fluorspar mine is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, continuously operated mines in Nevada. The dump and surface structures belie the mine's extensive under ground workings and its long record of production.

0227

Aftermath of a flood in Beatty, Nevada, showing flood damage and water levels on machinery inside the mill owned and operated by J. Irving Crowell's home on Second Street in Beatty. The mill was built to refine ore from the Crowell Fluorspar mine. Photo was taken around 1923.

0228 Rhyolite, Nevada. Date unknown.
0229

Josiah Irving Crowell's mill near his mine at Chloride Cliff, located in the Funeral Mountains southwest of Beatty, Nevada. The mill was designed to amalgamate and cyanide gold ore. Photo taken around 1915.

0230

Beatty, Nevada, looking to the northwest. Date unknown - - perhaps 1920s. The large building on the far right housed the Palmer Store. The white building with many windows is the California Hotel. The large with building left of the California Hotel is the Exchange Club.

0231 Camp at the Crowell fluorspar mine located at Bare Mountain, west of Beatty, Nevada. Photograph taken in the early 1940s.

0232 View of Beatty, Nevada, taken from the top of the water tank at the Crowell home, ca. 1920s.
0233

Don Finley at Josiah Irving Crowell's Chloride Cliff mine, Funeral Mountains, Beatty, Nevada, about 1915.

0234

Josiah Irving Crowell in his dugout dwelling at his Chloride Cliff mine, Funeral Mountains, Beatty, Nevada. Judging from the date on the calendar in the back ground, this photograph was taken October 12, 1915.

0235

Josiah Irving Crowell and his teenage son, J. Irving Crowell, Jr., in a 1917 Buick at their new house at the Chloride Cliff mine in the Funeral Mountains southwest of Beatty, Nevada.

0236

Left to right, J. Irving Crowell, Jr., with Jerry, the Airdale, Elizabeth Crowell, Josiah Irving Crowell, Mary Crowell O'Connell, and Annie L. Crowell, wife of Josiah Irving Crowell, prior to 1920.

0237

Main highway across Westgaard Pass in Fish Lake Valley, probably between 1920 and 1922. May be a close -up of photograph #0222.

0238 The Red Rooster Brothel, Beatty, Nevada, 1940s or early 1950s.
0239 Candelaria, Nevada, 1902. The child is J.Irving Crowell; the other people are unidentified.
0240

These panoramic shots of Beatty, Nevada, dates unknown, were obtained from to Jack and Maud - Kathrin Crowell, Beatty, Nevada, 1987 (Six shots in all, 0245 #0240 to #0245)

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Lemmon

0246 Looking north on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, probably early 1950s.
0247

The old Beatty Ranch located on the northeast side of Beatty, Nevada, date unknown. M.M. Beatty, for whom the town is named, occupied the ranch at the time of the Bullfrog discoveries by Shorty Harris and Ed Cross.

0248 The Beatty Store with Pop Richings and his wife, probably 1930s, Beatty, Nevada.
0249 Looking north on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1920s or early 1930s.
0250 Pioneer, Nevada, probably 1930s.
0251

This photograph has not been authoritatively identified. It may be Gold Center or Carrara, Nevada. It has even been suggested that it is Springdale.

0252 Probably Aurora, Nevada, date unknown.
0253 Marble quarry, Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
0254 Springdale, Nevada, probably 1907. Subjects are not identified.
0255 Mayflower Hotel, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada. Date unknown.
0256 Springdale, Nevada, probably 1910.
0257 Marble quarry, Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
0258 School picnic, Springdale, Nevada, probably May 1, 1907.
0259

The "underground" chapel, Beatty, Nevada, about 1958 or 1959. The church was located in a converted storage cellar, behind the Beatty Cash Store, on Montgomery Street. It was operated by Renee Gibson, a long - time Beatty resident. Sunday school and church services were held there.

0260 Train depot, Beatty, Nevada, date unknown.
0261 Probably Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
0262 Beatty, Nevada, date and subjects unknown.
0263

Renee Gibson, for many years the postmistress of the Beatty Post Office, Beatty, Nevada, 1950s. Looking north down Main Street from site of the new post office, built during the 1950s.

0264 Community Park, Beatty, Nevada, date unknown.
0265 Marble quarry, Carrara, Nevada, date unknown. The people pictured are unidentified.
0266 Location and person unidentified.
0267 Perhaps Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
0268 Schoolteacher and children, Springdale, Nevada, 1908.
0269 Schoolteacher and children, Springdale, Nevada, 1908.
0270 Probably Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
0271 Unidentified persons sitting on the fountain, Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.

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Palsgrove

0272 Carrara, Nevada, 1928.
0273 A truck hauling part of a ball mill of the Gold Ace Mill, several miles south of Beatty, 1928.
0274

Charles E. Phinney working on a concrete form at the Gold Ace Mill, about 1928. Phinney was in charge of constructing the mill, which was located a few miles south of Beatty, Nye County, Nevada.

0275

A view of the Gold Ace Mill from the valley, about 1929 or 1930. The Gold Ace is located a few miles south of Beatty, Nevada, off Highway 95.

0276 Carrara, Nevada, probably in the 1920s.
0277 Episcopal Church, Beatty, Nevada, Easter Sunday, April 1941.
0278 Workers unloading a ball mill near Beatty, Nevada, probably 1920s.
0279 A house in Carrara, Nevada, probably 1920s.
0280

Unidentified woman and the front side of the old Town Hall, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1930s. The Town Hall was originally the Miners' Union Building in Rhyolite, Nevada.

0281 House and occupant, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930.
0282 The California Hotel, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930.
0283

Hot springs located a few miles north of Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930. At one time the hot springs was a stop on the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad, which linked Rhyolite and Goldfield. The building pictured is the old station house for the
Railroad.

0284

Students at the Beatty School, 1930s. Chloe Lisle is in the front row wearing the dark jacket, and Robert Revert is in back on the far left.

0285 Main Street of Beatty School, 1930, Nevada, looking north, ca. 1930.
0286

A postcard showing a bus stopped at Andre's Grocery Store and Fountain next door to the Exchange Hotel, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930.

0287

Looking north up main Street, Beatty, Nevada, about 1920. Note the trees lining the street, the dirt road, and the Exchange Hotel, visible at right.

0288 A view of Main Street, Goldfield, Nevada, before 1910.
0289 Remick's Garage, Beatty, Nevada, 1930s. The garage stood at the present site (1988) of the service station at 2nd and Main, across from the Exchange Club.

0290

An early view of Tonopah looking toward T Mountain, ca. 1920. The old high school, now (1988) the site of Barsanti park, is visible in the distance in the distance on the left. The Mizpah shaft, Tonopah's largest producing mine, is in
The foreground.

0291 The Goldfield Hotel, Goldfield, Nevada, perhaps the 1930s.

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Reidhead (Beatty, Nevada)

0300 Looking north up Main Street at the Gold Ace fire, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1940.
0301

Looking north up Main Street at the Emergency Medical Clinic, Beatty, Nevada, about 1951 or 1952. The clinic building was originally the home of Judge Gray.

0302 Labor Day Parade in Beatty, Nevada, about 1955. Looking north up Main Street.
0303 Looking south down Main Street toward Daylight Pass, Beatty, Nevada, about 1947.
0304 View of Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad cars, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1930s.
0305

Looking north up Main Street at the bridge over the Amargosa River, Beatty, Nevada, following a flood, during the 1960s.

0306

Train depot, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1930s. The man in the doorway of the baggage car is possibly a Mr. Hilton.

0307 Grace Davies with a bobcat that her husband, Fred Davies, had trapped, Beatty, Nevada, 1938.
0308

North side of Judge Gray's home, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, late 1930s. Left to right, Fred Davies, Grace Mitchell, two unidentified women, and Judge William B. Gray. Date of photo unknown, possibly late 1930s.

0309

View of Beatty, Nevada, looking east, probably 1930s. Beatty mountain is on the left and Bare Mountain is on the right.

0310

View of the baggage car of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1930s. The man in the car is possibly a Mr. Hilton. Photograph appears to be a closeup of 0221 0306.

0311 Exchange Club fire, Beatty, Nevada, March 1987.

0312

Looking north up Main Street at the Exchange Club fire, Beatty Nevada, March 1987. Photo was taken in the early hours of daylight on that date. March 1987. Photo was taken in the early hours of daylight on that date.

0313 Looking north up Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, probably middle 1950s.
0314

Pioneer, Nevada, probably 1930s. Smoke can be seen rising from the chimney of the large house in the background and both it and the cabin in the foreground on the left appear to be occupied.

0315

Fred Davies, long -time Beatty resident, working in his blacksmith shop at Pioneer, Nevada, 1920s. Davies was a blacksmith, farrier, pipefitter, and boil maker.

0316 View of the Exchange Club, Beatty, Nevada, early 1940s, looking north up Main Street.
0317

Looking north up Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, about 1941 or 1942. The Shell Service Station at the corner of Third and Main Streets is on the left.

0318 Chevron Service Station, possibly early 1940s. Location is undetermined.
0319

Headframe and buildings at the Gold Bar Mine, Beatty vicinity, Nevada, late 1930s. The pickup belongs to Beatty resident Fred Davies.

0320 View of the Tonopah Club and Ace Club, Tonopah, Nevada, Fourth of July Parade, about 1951.
0321 Tonopah, Nevada, July 4th, about 1951. Beatty resident Claudia Davies Reidhead is pictured.
0322

Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, about 1945. Looking south toward Death Valley. The white building is Mrs. Morgan's Church; a curio shop is at the right.

0323

Water tank belonging to the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, Beatty, Nevada, Late 1930s. The man in the foreground has been identified as Mr. Hilton.

0324 Exchange Club fire, Beatty, Nevada, March 1987.
0325

Tanker truck belonging to the Beatty Volunteer Fire Department, Beatty, Nevada, at the Exchange Club fire, March 1987.

0326 Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s.
0327

Fred Davies standing on top of the adobe monument that marks the boundary to Death Valley National Monument on the highway to Daylight Pass, west of Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s. or early 1940s.

0328

A picture postcard that came out about 1937, featuring Aurora, a Shoshone Indian resident of Beatty, Nevada, who was very skilled at making baskets.

0329

Main Street of Beatty, Nevada, looking to the northwest. Part of St. Peter's Bar is Visible on the far left. Partially visible on the far right is M. &M. Bar, Known in 1988 as the Sourdough Saloon. St. Peter's Bar is now (1988) the Pot Shop.

0330

The woman featured here is either Mrs. Heisler, a sister to a gentleman who was at the Rhyolite Railroad Depot, or Mrs. Moffatt - - probably Mrs. Heisler. Fred Davies' dog, Boots, is also pictured. Probably late 1930s or early 1940s.

0331

Claudia Davies and her uncle, Jack Davies, at a watering tank on the west side of Daylight Pass, about 1948 or 1949.

0332

Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Engine No. 10, Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s. Identity of the men in the photo is unknown.

0333

Hides of coyotes trapped by Fred Davies and Johnny Konzos, Beatty, Nevada area, about 1945.

0334 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Engine No. 8, Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s.
0335 Death Valley Junction, probably late 1930s.
0336

Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Engine No. 10, Beatty, Nevada, probably later
1930s.

0337 Beatty Cemetery, looking east, 1940s.
0338 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad car, Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s.
0339 Amargosa Hotel, Death Valley Junction, California, late 1930s or early 1940s.
0340 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad cars, Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s.
0341

Beatty, Nevada, probably 1949 or 1950, from the Reidhead home on the end of Main Street, looking across Main Street toward the northern part of Beatty Mountain.

0342

Left to right: Fred Remmick, Fred Davies, unidentified man, and Charlie Walker. Possibly taken in the late 1930s.

0343 Looking north up Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1940s.
0344

Tonopah and Tidewater Engine No.9, probably late 1930s. Beatty Mountain is visible in the background.

0345 Beatty, Nevada, looking northeast, after a snowstorm, probably 1948.
0346

A water Tank behind the Davies home on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1940s. The water tank was a part of the old Revert water system in town and Provided water to the homes in the vicinity of the Davies' residence.

0347 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Engine No. 10, Death Valley Junction, probably 1930s.
0348

Billie Wallace, wife of Dr. E. Dasse Wallace, a Las Vegas physician who came up to Ash Meadows and Beatty and sometimes as far north as Tonopah to treat patients during the 1940s. Billie Wallace accompanied her husband on theses trips.

0349 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Engine No. 8, ca. 1930.
0350

Beatty Primary School picture, October 1947. Back row, left to right: Shirley Gibbens, Jeanette Poland, Claudia Davies, Mary Lu Bright, teacher Irma Cunningham, Judgina Shirley, Esther Ray McCann, Rowina McLean and Jean Bacoccina. Front row, left to right: Robert Bright, Virginia Revert, Sherry Looney other children's identity unknown.

0351 Jim Hendershot in front of the Shell Service Station, Third and Main Streets, Beatty, Nevada, about 1954.
0352 Claudia Davies Reidhead atop the burned-out jail cell, Beatty, Nevada, about 1953.
0353 Claudia Davies Reidhead and her dog in front of Beatty High School, Beatty, Nevada, early 1950s.
0354

Air Force "volunteers" from the Indian Springs Air Force Base, helping to construct the Beatty Catholic Church in 1956.

0355

Beatty, Nevada, looking west toward Indian Head Mountain, with the primary School on the far right and next to it, the new high school building, probably 1950s.

0356

Back row, left to right: Patsy Manley, Brenda Revert, Anna Fordham, and Francis Bodich. Front row, left to right: Pam (last name unknown); Julia Landis, and Claudia Davies.

0357

Beatty School, ca. 1950. The building was constructed and designed around materials scavenged from Rhyolite.

0358

Air Force "volunteers" from the Indian Springs Air Force Base, putting finishing touches on construction activities at the Beatty Catholic Church, 1956.

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Hughes (Pahrump Ranch)

0362

Two young women at the Pahrump Ranch, all dressed up and no place to go. At left if Beryl Hughes, daughter of Pahrump Ranch owner John R. Hughes; at right is Mabel Ishmael, daughter of well - known Nye County resident George Ishmael. Photo was taken in 1938, when Beryl Hughes was 15 and Mabel Ishmael was 16. Beryl Hughes later became a model in Los Angels.

0363

Leon Hughes, son of Pahrump Ranch owner John R. Hughes, in front of the "old Motel" located on the Pahrump Ranch, 1938. Hughes believes the motel was constructed around 1920 by the Pahrump Valley Company, under the ownership of Isodore Dockweiler… 1940s.

0365

Betty Jean Hughes, daughter of John R. Hughes, riding her brother Leon's horse, Chico, on the Pahrump Ranch, about 1938. (For details on the barn see Photo Graph - 0359 in this series.)

0366

Young stallion named Snit belonging to John Hughes on the Pahrump Ranch, about 1938. The horse was a mustang and was caught on the open range in the Pahrump Valley.

0367

About half of this photograph was eaten away by the mice while in storage. From left, Mabel Ishmael, Red Hughes, Beryl Hughes, and Leon Hughes about 1938. Pictured in back is what was called the old stagecoach hotel, located on the Pahrump Ranch. Leon Hughes believes the building was used as a hotel at the same time that the barn, pictured on 0359, used to quarter stagecoach horses, at a time when the Pahrump Ranch was a stage stop…. The building is said to have burned down in 1943.

0368 Leon Hughes in the San Joaquin Valley, California, about 1935.
0369 Leon Hughes and his horse, about 1938.
0370

Mustang named Snit corralled on the Pahrump Ranch, about 1938. (See also photograph 0366 of this collection.)

0371 Leon Hughes and his family in the Pahrump Valley, mid -1950s.

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Ruud (Pahrump, Nevada)

0372

Robin Ruud stands beside a snowman he and his friend Brian King made following a two-day snowstorm in Pahrump, Nevada, in 1973.

0373 Mike Floyd heads out of the chute during a junior rodeo in Pahrump, Nevada, in the mid 1970s.
0374

Robin Ruud with his steer, Moby, at the J.C. Fair, about 1970. His sister, Joyce, is with her steer, Dynamite. The man inspecting Dynamite is unidentified. The fair was held each year at the Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada; the Pahrump 4-H Club always participated.

0375

Jacque Ruud in a contemplative mood at the pond where she washed clothes after her family moved to Pahrump, Nevada. Their dog, a Doberman, is in the background. The photo was taken in 1958.

0376

Joyce Ruud at age four, standing before the trailer the family moved from California to Pahrump, Nevada. The photo was taken in 1958.

0377

Bob Ruud in the backyard of his new home in Pahrump, Nevada, looking east Toward Mount Charleston, 1968.

0378 Joyce and Robin Ruud standing in front of their trailer in Pahrump, Nevada, in 1961.
0379

From left: Margaret Woner Elgorriagga, Lealla Woner Upton, Frank Woner, Louis Woner Clark, Jacque Woner Ruud, and Charlotte Woner Floyd in 1983 at Charlotte Woner Floyd's home.

0380

This is the pond described in photograph 0375 of this collection. The artesian Water was used for washing; play; and irrigation. This view is looking south. The photo was taken in 1958.

0381 Rick Ruud in 1969 or 1970 after a jackrabbit hunt.
0382

Taken at an El Riata trail ride sometime in the 1960s. El Riata was a horse Training and riding club for the children of Pahrump, Nevada. Once each year the children went on a long ride, with a barbeque and overnight stay. Bob Ruud
Was chef; he would drive his cattle truck up, attach a tarp, cook, and let the smaller children sleep inside the truck.

0383

Another view of the El Riata trail ride described in the previous photo. Some of
The older children opted for motor bikes instead of horses.

0384

Bob Ruud with his granddaughter Ricky in approximately 1980. Ricky is Sporting a shawl Bob brought her from his trip to Guatemala.

0385

Jacque Ruud and her mother, Mildred Hensley Woner, in 1981 at Pernicano's Italian Restaurant in Pahrump, Nevada. Mrs. Woner has been a Pahrump Resident since 1975.

0386

Bob Ruud and his youngest son, Robin, in front of Frank Woner's house on the Pahrump Ranch, approximately 1965. The house (at right) is made of railroad ties. The fish were probably caught below Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.

0388 Another picture from the El Riata trail ride, ca. 1970.
0389

Bob Ruud wrapping meat for the Pahrump Harvest Festival in the early 1970s. Bob was the chef for the festival for about 12 years.

0390 Jacque Ruud at the cotton gin in 1963 or 1964, standing beside the year's first Bale of cotton. A prize was awarded for the first bale of the year, and growers used to practically handpick their first bale to try to win that prize.

0391 Pahrump 4-H youngsters at a greased pig contest in 1968 or 1969. The kids kept and raised the pigs that they caught.

0392 Rick Tuud with daughter Ricky down at the hay- cubing barn.
0393 The Simkins Ranch on the northern end of Pahrump, Nevada, in 1975, looking east.
0394

Back row, from left: Margaret Woner Elgorriagga, Lealla Woner Upton, Frank Woner, Lois Woner, Clark, Jacque Woner Ruud, and Charlotte Woner Floyd. Mildred Hensley Woner is in the center. Charlotte Woner Floyd's home, 1983.

0395

Neighbors help the Ruuds break ground for their new home in September 1968, from left: Gary Bowman and his wife Alice; Mrs. Perry Bowman; Pauline Siri; Ed Siri (the Pahrump deputy sheriff at the time); Carol Woner and her son
Benny; (the blond-haired women is not identified); Ben Floyd; Frank Woner; Perry Bowman; Hollis Harris; Jacque and Bob Ruud.

0396 Al and Lynn Bells balling what probably is alfalfa, on the Simkins Ranch in 1975.
0397 From left: Max Hefen, Bob Ruud, and Tim Hefen celebrate the completion of a cattle chute on the Ruuds' Basin Ranch. The chute was put together in cooperation with the state of Nevada and some of the advisory council from the
University of Nevada, Reno, and is used for vaccination and de-horning.

0398 Joyce Ruud shows her steer, Dynamite, at the J.C. Fair in Las Vegas, Nevada, about 1970.
0399 Another shot of the greased pig competition described in photo 0391 of this collection, 1968 or 1969; holding onto the pig is one of the Mason boys.

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Turner (Pahrump, Nevada)

0400

Two views of the grapevines on Frank "Pop" Buol's place. These shots were taken from a booklet on Pahrump, Nevada, published in 1947.

0401

Nan Crutchfield at the entrance to the Pahrump Ranch, October 1947. This picture is from a booklet on Pahrump, Nevada, published in 1947.

0402 Registered Hereford cattle on the Pahrump Ranch, after 1947.
0403

Irrigating grain or alfalfa on the Pahrump Ranch in the early 1950s. At the time planting was done on beds, and irrigation was done in the furrows.

0404

Stanley Adams examining a new pump well on the Shurtliff Ranch, about 1955. The well was powered by a 92 horsepower Caterpiller diesel engine.

0405 A cotton crop on the Pahrump Ranch, looking southwest.
0406

Bill and Frances "Dutch" Turner at Dutch's testimonial in 1976. The testimonial was held to celebrate Dutch's many years as postmaster in Pahrump, Nevada.

0407

Apricot trees on frank "pop" Buol's place. The person in the photograph is not identified. The farm also grew peaches pears, cherries, pomegranates, figes, and nut trees, including pistachios. From a booklet on Pahrump, Nevada, published in 1947.

0408 Tom and Ben Ward in a cotton field in the early 1950s.

0409

Stacks of baled hay, a chief product of the Pahrump Valley, from a booklet on Pahrump, Nevada, published in 1947.

0410

Ben Ward driving a tractor on the Pahrump Ranch in the early 1950s. Gerland Emory is trying wires; the man at far right is unidentified.

0411

Walt Williams on the Pahrump Ranch Air Strip, with the cotton gin in the distance, in approximately 1959.

0412

Cotton trailers in front of the cotton gin in Pahrump, Nevada. The tall tower was a pre-cleaner. Seed storage was to the left of the tower, and the small structure next to the tower was the power house.

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Wiley (Pahrump Valley)

0413

Willow trees bordering both sides of the first road that led to the old Yount Ranch, also known as the Hidden Ranch and the Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1937.

0414

Suspension bridge above Cathedral Canyon, Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada. The bridge was constructed in 1972 by Roland Wiley, owner of the ranch and producer of the Cathedral Canyon attraction. ( More information printed on the photo board.)

0415

Dora Lee Brown and her niece on the Yount, or Hidden Hills Ranch, 1930s. Mrs. Brown and her son Steve originally lived at the Yount home on the ranch, but when Roland Wiley took possession they moved to a nearby area in which a
Spring flowed and considerable vegetation was present. Wiley referred to the area as Dora's place. In the 1970s, a flash flood destroyed the area, washing away the soil and trees and eliminating the spring.

0416

Elmer Bowman and Roland Wiley are pictured in a cotton field on the Manse Ranch, owned by Elmer Bowman, early 1950s. Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada.

0417

Granddaughter of Dora Lee Brown near the spring at Dora's place on the Yount (Hidden Hills) Ranch, probably the early 1940s.

0418

Dora Lee Brown and her granddaughter at Dora's place on the Yount (Hidden Hills) Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, ca. 1940.

0419

Hoot Gibson, a western cowboy actor, and Mrs. Elderbrook, then crowned Mrs. America, landing on Roland Wiley's Hidden Hills Ranch airstrip, early 1950s.

0420 Fred Kennedy riding a gaited horse owned by Roland Wiley at Cathedral Canyon Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, approximately 1939.

0421

Cathedral Canyon in Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, between 1950 and 1960… Roland Wiley is on the left in the white shirt; Mr. Elderbrook, from Palm Springs, is in the foreground in the white hat. Mrs. Elderbrook and Hoot Gibson's wife are also pictured.

0422

Visitors at the Hidden Hills Ranch during the 1950s. Hoot Gibson is standing behind the hitching post shaking his hands with Murdell Earl, owner of the ENT Drug Store in North Las Vegas.

0423

Roland Wiley is at the left and Elmer Bowman, owner of the Manse Ranch, is at the far right, visiting Harry and Mary Sackett, an Indian couple who lived in a cottage on the Manse Ranch, ca. 1990.

0424

Homestead house constructed on John Yount's homestead location at the south end of Pahrump Valley, Nevada. The house looked pretty much as it does here when Roland Wiley acquired John Yount's ranch in 1936. (More information on Photo board.)

0425

In 1941, Roland constructed the airstrip pictured here near his ranch in Pahrump Valley. (Pictured here; more background info. on photo board.)

0426

Cabins located on the Yount Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, 1950s. The cabins were constructed by Roland Wiley following Wiley's purchase of the ranch in 1936. The last cabin was built in 1950.

0427 Cattle trails located on the Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada. Undated photo.
0428

Riders and horses at the mouth of Torpedo Canyon, Hidden Hills Ranch, late 1940s. Left to right: Fred Kennedy, a resident of Sandy Valley for many years; Caretaker of the Hidden Hills Ranch; a client of Roland Wiley's,name unknown.

0429

Buildings located on Roland Wiley's Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada. The site where the buildings are located was known as Dora's Place, where Dora Brown and her family resided. (More information on photo board)

0430 Aerial view of the Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, ca. 1980.
0431

In 1967, 15 acres of Roland Wiley's land holdings on the California side of the Pahrump Valley were planted in melons. … Part of the irrigation system and the Crop from that enterprise are shown.

0432 Unidentifed persons and melons grown on the California side of Roland Wiley's Ranch in Pahrump Valley, 1967.
0433

A view of a truck, farm workers, and melons grown on Roland Wiley's Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, 1967.

0434

Mummified remains of an Indian renegade known as Queho. This photo was taken in the early 1940s… (More information on the photo board). Standing second from left is Frank White was a member of the pose that initially searched For Queho.

0435

Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, just prior to the canyon's development as a shrine by Roland Wiley, ca. 1971. A few lights have been strung up and guests have been invited to commemorate the occasion.

0436

A view of the suspension bridge and the statue of Christ at Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, late 1980s. … Roland Wiley is seated in the picture; the man standing in the white shirt is unidentified. More information on the
Photo board.

0437 Another view of Cathedral Canyon from the same perspective as 0436.
0438

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, ca. 1986.

0439 Aerial view of Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, late 1980s.
0440

A close up of the Christ of the Andes statue located at Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, ca. 1980.

0441

Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, circa 1950. The remains of a fire place believed to have been constructed by the Indians. Left to right: Ruth Ellerbrook; unidentified; unidentified; Frank Ellerbrook, husband of Ruth Eller Brook. More information on the photo board.

0442 Roland Wiley at the entrance to Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, Late 1980.
0443

Roland Wiley, the creator and financier of Cathedral Canon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada (admission is free), seated in the canyon with the suspension bridge and the replica of the Christ of the Andes in the background, 1989.

0444

During the early 1950s, Roland Wiley raised pheasants on his Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada. The birds were turned loose on the property in large numbers and hunted by guests from hotels In Las Vegas and other areas. Wiley's economic venture in raising pheasants for hunting, however, was not successful.

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Ford (Pahrump Valley, Nevada)

0445

Stanley Ford and his new six- cylinder Chevrolet truck, about 1931. For was in The trucking business in the Los Angeles area.

0446 Cowboys branding a calf on the Manse Ranch, probably in the 1940s.
0447

Looking west from the Raycraft Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, around 1940. Cedar posts, on the left, were cut in the Spring Mountain Range. Pictured is a four-wheel trailer constructed by Stanley Ford.
0448

House on the Raycraft Ranch, 1945, looking west. The house was built by Jim Raycraft from lumber obtained at the Johnnie Townsite and hauled down to Pahrump in wagons. The car is a 1931 Graham, used by Stanley Ford… (More Information on photo board.)

0449

Look closely toward the middle of the photograph, about an inch above the Mountain range, and you'll see an atomic mushroom cloud from a test at the Nevada Test Site. Photo was taken from the front yard of Harry Ford's home in Pahrump Valley, Nevada, looking north, a little east of Mount Sterling in 1952 or 1953.

0450

Eighteen - year old Harry "Button" Ford and his 1946 Ford convertible, parked in front of his home in Pahrump Valley, Nevada, during the summer of 1955.

0451 The first Pahrump Harvest Festival, held September 5, 1964. Looking northeast toward Mount Sterling.
0452

The first Pahrump Harvest Festival, September 5, 1964. The celebration was held approximately where the arena exists in 1988, near the Community Building.

0453

A John Deere tractor purchased by Stanley Ford use in Pahrump Valley, Nevada. The tractor was purchased shortly after World War II, after Ford stopped using horses. Ford did not purchase the tractor new; at one time it had been used as a power planet for a sawmill.

0454 Head frame of the Johnnie Mine, Johnnie, Nevada, about 1987.
0455

Remains of the home of Jack Longstreet, long - time Nye County resident and renowned desert frontiersman. The home was located in Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, near a large spring now known as Longstreets's Spring. Longstreet occupied the site in 1890s. This photo was taken in July 1983; in August 1984, floods destroyed the remains of the home.

0456

Another view of the home of Jack Longstreet, at Longstreet Spring, Ash Meadows, Nevada, July 1983. The home was destroyed by a flood in the following year.

0457

Students at the Pahrump School, Rose School District, Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada, 1945. Back row. Left to right, Johnnie Franks, Glenn Brooks, Helen Ford (Ward), Frederick "Fraddy" Sharp, Angelina Sharp. Font row, left to right, Teacher Norma Schnerder, Harry S. Ford, Mary Sue Sawday, Carol Jean Wilson, Darlene Cayton, Alberta Sharp, Catherine Ann "Timynia" Sawday.

0458 Automobile used a school bus in Pahrump, Nevada, 1945, and students.
0459 Grader removing snow from Pahrump Valley, Nevada, roads, ca. 1960.
0460

Well -drilling rig owned and operated by Stanley Ford. During the 1940s and 1950s Ford drilled many of the wells in Pahrump Valley, Nev. Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada. 1948.

0461

The Pahrump School, operated by the Rose School District, Main Street, Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada, 1948.

0462 Stanley Ford operating the controls of his well-drilling equipment in the Pahrump Valley.
0463

Cabin once occupied by Jack Longstreet in Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada. Photograph was taken in July 1983; the historic landmark was Destroyed by a flood in August 1984.

0464 The Johnnie Mine, Nye County, Nevada, 1983.
0465

Hattie Todd Ford, Pahrump, Nevada, 1946. She was related through her father to Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.

0466 Stanely Ford, Pahrump, Nevada, 1946.
0467

Cover of the official program for ceremonies opening the Pahrump -Las Vegas Highway over Mountain Spring Pass, September 26, 1954.

0468 Cover of the first Pahrump Valley, Nevada, telephone directory. March 6, 1965.
0469 First Pahrump Valley, Nevada, telephone directory. March 6, 1965.
0470 Front page, Pahrump Valley Times, January 1971.
0471 Page 6 of Pahrump Valley Times, January 1971.

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Hafen (Pahrump, Nevada)

0499      

Aerial view of the Pahrump Trading Post, probably taken at the same time as photo 0478 in this series, about 1947.

0500     

Building on Ray Van Horn’s place on the Dollar Ranch now (1988) known as Country Place II, at the north end of Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1947.

0501      Fall Festival Parade, Pahrump, Nevada, early 1980s. The Saddle West is visible in the background.
0502      Aerial view of an unidentified ranch, perhaps the Pahrump Ranch, Date Unknown.
0503      The Cotton Pickin’ Saloon near Highway 372, Pahrump, Nevada, approximately 1970.
0504     

Lois Kellogg at an unknown location, with a Russian wolfhound dog, a breed which she later raised at her Fish lake Valley, Nevada, ranch. Photo was taken in approximately1915, and was obtained from the Getty Museum.

0505     

Lois Kellogg at an unidentified location, ca. 1930. This photo was originally obtained from the Getty Museum.

0506     

Lois Kellogg at an unidentified location, ca. 1930. This appears to have been taken at the same time as the photo 0505 in this set. This photo was originally obtained from the Getty Museum.

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Brown (Tecopa- Pahrump Area)