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Title: Virginia City, Nevada, Photograph Collection
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1898-1900
Collection Number: photCL 287
Creator:
Extent:
33 photographs in 2 boxes : glass negatives ; plate 14 x 20 cm + copy prints in 1 folder.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Photo Archives
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection consists of 33 glass-plate negatives (and corresponding copy prints) of Virginia City, Nevada, chiefly in
the late 1890s.
Views include: interior and exterior scenes of the saloon,
court house, sheriff's office, houses, stores, restaurants, and miners.
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and
obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item], Virginia City, Nevada, Photograph Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance unknown, transferred from the Manuscript Department in the 1950s. Item 29 was added to the collection in 1987.
This collection consists of 33 glass plate negatives (and corresponding copy prints) of Virginia City, Nevada, chiefly in
the late 1890s.
Views include: interior and exterior scenes of the saloon,
court house, sheriff's office, houses, stores, and restaurants. There are a few photographs dealing with mines in the area,
and one of a mining shack with children and mules (Item 29).
Approximate date of photographs based on 1898 calendar that is visible on item 7. G.W. Miller is identified as the photographer
on items 31-33.
Item titles in square brackets supplied by cataloger based on typescript list of items found with the collection.
Related materials in the Huntington Library
The items have been given Huntington item numbers 1-33, but are arranged are arranged in order according to numbers stamped
on the envelopes in which the negatives were received
(from 179-238, with gaps).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Nevada -- Virginia City -- Photographs.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada -- Virginia City -- Photographs.
Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada -- Virginia City -- Photographs.
Mining camps -- Photographs.
Virginia City (Nev.) -- Photographs.
Photographs.
Miller, G. W., photographer.