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Ragnar Mellin was known locally as "the galloping Swede" because he apparently went everywhere at a gallop.

a-g (b missing); a. Salt works evaporation ponds; c. Salt works tramway, Saline Valley end; d. Salt works tramway Owens Valley end and bucket near peak; e. construction of tramway and map of route; f. tramway at peak elevation at Inyo crest; g.…

Portrait of family on steps of cottage - E. A. Thornhill was dean at Deep Springs as well as at Telluride Branches before that time perhaps for the entire TA system. Daughter was Virginia who was also an informant to later historians.

Jim Withrow DS27 and Charles Gilbert DS27 on horseback near the post office end of the old Main Building

Views of 867 Lucile, the house in which LL Nunn died in 1925. a, b - images from Harvey Mansfield in early 1920s, when students sometimes visited during LL's final illness. c - a Google Earth view of the house. d - Google Earth street view. e -…

Roger Dell (math faculty, 1960s and 1970s), wife Marilyn holding daughter Megan, son Jeff, daughter Nicole

View from near partly-finished Boarding House of the Main Building, with scaffolding still in place

Deep Springs Mary was one of the last Paiutes resident in Deep Springs Valley, and did laundry for the early students. Husband was Deep Springs Harry, who worked as an irrigator at the ranch.

Left to right, Mr. Knopf, LL Nunn, Bruce Simmons, and Irwin Scott in the desert, exact location unknown, possibly deciding where to build the college

Deep Springs students had T-shirts made with literary or Deep Springs-specific designs. These are 5 such, including quotations from Thomas Nashe's "Summer's Last Will and Testament" with Air Force logo, 2 Deep Springs toad designs, Nunn and Lenin,…