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 Virginia City, Nevada, showing Mount Davidson in the background, ca.1930. There is an empty ridge in the foreground, occupied solely by a man at right and a utility pole at left. The town is farther in the distance and is composed of a collection of rectangular wooden buildings and a handful of trees at right. The treeless mass of Mount Davidson looms over the town in the distance. Photoprint reads: "The famous mining town of the Comstock Lode.Mt. Davidson in the back (alt. 7827). There is said to be about 600 miles of tunnel and shafts under the town and mountain".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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