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Title
Virginia City, Nevada Territory, 1861
Creator
Brown, Grafton T. (1841-1918), artist and publisher Kuchel, C. C. (1820-ca. 1865), Swiss, lithographer Britton & Co. (active ca. 1861), printer
Date Created and/or Issued
1861
Publication Information
Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information
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Description
View of town situated in valley taken from Gould and Curry claim; predominantly one-story wooden buildings and houses line streets; several mine buildings on ourskirts; mining tunnels in hills to left. Marginal images include views of banks, hotels, stores and other businesses, private residences, and mining operations. Both main view and marginal images populated with pedestrians, people riding horses and in carriages, workers, and others.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn from nature by Crafton T. Brown; (LC): Britton & Co. Print.; (LC, below title): Published by Crafton B. Brown; (LR): C.C. Kuchel Lith., 174 Clay St[reet], S[an] Francisco, Cal[ifornia].
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, hand color 54.2 x 70 cm., visible image
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6489p34h
BANC PIC 1963.002:1403--FR
Subject
Buildings
Business enterprises
City & town life
Dwellings
Frontier & pioneer life
Hotels
Laborers
Mining
Nevada
Settlements
West (U.S.)

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