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Looking north on Main St. from just south of Line St., Ameican flag in the middle of the intersection ca. 1918. The two buildings on the SE corner still exist, the northerly one Galen Rowell's photo gallery and the southerly one a bookstore as of…

In ca. 1918, this building was a school about four years old - it has been converted to the Bishop City Hall

Elbridge Gerry DS19 milks a cow

Merril Wrench was the son of Addison Wrench, one of LL Nunn's business partners from the early days in Colorado

Sheldon Callaway DS18, apparently standing on a rock above the dairy barn

Two concrete silos were built in the early days to hold dairy feed, probably corn silage - caption reads building the silos 65 feet high. One remains as of 2018. "

A team of horses begins digging the lower reservoir, guided by three unidentified people. The handle extending above the left-hand person's head was a lever to control the depth of cut, and could require (and deliver) considerable force.

Katherine Baily was the daughter of workers at the salt works at Deep Springs Lake, and socialized with the Deep Springs community. In these photos she is pointing a shotgun and (it seems, if oddly) washing a roll of developed film

Students toss a fellow student fully clothed into the reservoir shortly after completion

A 4-horse, a 2-horse, and a 2-mule team pulling bucket-type "Fresno" scrapers, probably the early stages of digging the lower reservoir