Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a view of the Consolidated Virginia Mineshaft in Virginia City, Nevada, showing hills in the background, ca.1935. The wooden frame of a mining apparatus stands at the right centerground of the picture. The foreground of the picture contains mining debris, including a large-diameter pipe, wood scraps, and scrap metal. More debris is visible on the ground in the centerground. A burst of smoke or steam hangs in the air in the left middle ground, apparently emitted from a low metal structure which bisects the left side of the image. Small houses are visible in the near background, while hills occupy the remainder. The shaft of the Consolidated Virginia Mine was at one time considered the richest in the world. Its great strike was made in March 1873.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 13 x 10 cm., 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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