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Title: Interior Ophir Hoisting Works. The Cages. # 4152
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [1874]
Publication Information: San Francisco : Watkins' New Series
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: STEREO-2511
STEREO COLLECTION: WATKINS: OUT OF STATE: NEVADA: # 4152
Orange mount; pink verso.
View of the inside of the Ophir Hoisting Works in Virginia City, Nevada. A man stands next to 1 of 2 pillars between 3 metal cages over holes in the floor. Other machinery is visible beyond.
Negative no. 24,657 (4x5 in.)
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001390583CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-3906
Subject: Mining--Nevada--Virginia City
Interiors--Nevada--Virginia City
Virginia City (Nev.)--Photographs
Stereographs
Photographic prints
Place: Nevada
Virginia City
Virginia City (Nev.)

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