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The Bonanza Firm from the Combination Shaft, Virginia City, Nevada, looking N.W., no. 1069

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Title: The Bonanza Firm from the Combination Shaft, Virginia City, Nevada, looking N.W., no. 1069
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [1876]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: Attributed to Carleton Watkins - reasonably certain Library's collection of mammoth prints printed from negatives by Watkins.
View of mine buildings, Virginia City in background, tailings.
2010-0574.
Also have negative: no. 9595 (70 mm).
Restricted.
Mine begun in 1875 by owners of Chollar-Potosi, Hale & Corcross and Savage mines. Deepest shaft on Comstock Lode. Bonanza Firm name given to partnership of John W. Mackay, James G. Fair, James C. Flood and William S. O'Brien (eventually controlled Comstock Lode).
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; 15 x 21 in. on mount 16 x 22 in.
Identifier: (C)001454290CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Mine buildings--Nevada--Virginia City
Buildings--Nevada--Virginia City
Silver mining--Nevada--Virginia City
Tailings embankments--Nevada--Virginia City
Virginia City (Nev.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: Nevada
Virginia City
Virginia City (Nev.)

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