View, from Mustang Hill, of Main Street, Manhattan, Nevada. Men and women walk on the dirt street. Wooden buildings, some with false fronts, line the street. Prominent signs read: "Pioneer Manhattan Insurance [?] Co." and "Painting". Tents dot the...
Standing studio portrait of Native American (Paiutes) man, Dave Neumena, Captain of Police at the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada. He wears a white kerchief, top coat and vest with metal buttons, pocket chain, pants, and boots. One hand rests on a...
Indian reservation police--Nevada--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Nevada--1890-1900.; Paiute Indians--Nevada--1890-1900.; Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation (Nev.)--1890-1900.; Police--Nevada--1890-1900.; Neumena, Dave.
A Native American (Paiute) woman, identified as the wife of Big Alec, stands in a cultivated garden, Deep Creek, Nevada. She wears a scarf over her head, and a print blouse and skirt, and holds a garden tool. Family members stand in the background.
Indians of North America--Nevada--Deep Creek--1910-1920.; Paiute Indians--Women--Nevada--Deep Creek--1910-1920.; Deep Creek (Nev.)--1910-1920.; Gardening--Nevada--Deep Creek--1910-1920.; Women--Nevada--Deep Creek--1910-1920.; Big Alex--Family.
Panoramic view of buildings in Virginia City (Storey County), Nevada. Shows frame houses and probably mine buildings, brick commercial buildings, and churches with steeples. Horse-drawn wagons are on dirt roads near sagebrush covered hillsides and...
Virginia City (Nev.)--1860-1870.; Cities & towns--Nevada--Virginia City--1860-1870.; Expeditions & surveys--Nevada--Virginia City--1860-1870.; Mining--Nevada--Virginia City--1860-1870.; United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel...
View of frame and brick houses, buildings, and mines on hillsides in Austin (Lander County), Nevada. A small creek bed is near a corral and a wagon is beside a building that reads "stables". Metal pipes and mining supplies are on the ground, and...
Austin (Nev.)--1860-1870.; Cities & towns--Nevada--Austin--1860-1870.; Expeditions & surveys--Nevada--Austin--1860-1870.; Mining--Nevada--Austin--1860-1870.; United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881)
View of a wooden balanced incline used for gold mining at the Illinois Mine in the Pahranagat Mining District, (Lincoln County) Nevada. An ore car is on parallel tracks connected to a pulley wheel at the top of tracks. Rocks, trees and ore piles...
Illinois Mine (Lincoln County, Nev.)--1870-1880.; Lincoln County (Nev.)--1870-1880.; Pahranagat Mining District (Nev.)--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Nevada--Lincoln County--1870-1880.; Gold mining--Nevada--Lincoln County--1870-1880.; Inclined...
Men wear hats and sit, stand, and pose in front of a canvas covered tent near the Arizona Mine shaft at Belmont (Nye County), Nevada. A man sits in a wheelbarrow beside a log pile. Ore piles and rocks, a horse, wagon and a mine building with a...
Arizona Mine (Nye County, Nev.)--1870-1880.; Belmont (Nev.)--1870-1880.; Miners--Nevada--Belmont--1870-1880.; Mining--Nevada--Belmont--1870-1880.; Tents--Nevada--Belmont--1870-1880.; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
Close-up view of a U.S. Army fort at Camp Halleck (Elko County), Nevada. Shows a horse-drawn wagon beside a building constructed with vertical logs and a pitched roof. Wooden barrels are on platforms on a roof apex.
Prospector Hutch Stevens of Hahns Peak (Routt County; also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado, stands near rock formations near a Nevada Mining Camp. Stevens holds a pick axe in his left hand and has a canteen hanging around his neck. He wears a...
View of Central Pacific Railroad construction and a tunnel on Donner Pass (Nevada County), California; a covered wagon and team of horses are by a shed.
Central Pacific Railroad Company--1860-1870.; Donner Pass (Calif.)--1860-1870.; Nevada County (Calif.)--1860-1870.; Covered wagons--California--Nevada County--1860-1870.; Railroad construction & maintenance--California--Nevada County--1860-1870.;...
View of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Company depot in Pearldale (Buena Vista, Nevada County), California. Shows a frame building, outhouse, ties, and railroad tracks.
Two men in small boat slide down a narrow, wooden flume filled with water in the Sierra Nevada Range in Nevada or California. Shows the flume on a tree-covered mountain, rock formations and summits in the distance.
Men and women stand on a wooden bridge erected on Cave Rock, overlooking Lake Tahoe, in Douglas County, Nevada. A road along the cliff is supported by a rock retaining wall. Mountains are in the distance.
Cave Rock (Nev.)--1880-1900.; Douglas County (Nev.)--1880-1900.; Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.)--1880-1900.; Lakes & ponds--Nevada--Douglas County--1880-1900.; Retaining walls--Nevada--Douglas County--1880-1900.; Rock formations--Nevada--Douglas...
A man stands on a road near Cave Rock overlooking Lake Tahoe in Douglas County, Nevada. Shows a steep rocky slope and the road supported by a stone retaining wall. Mountains are in the distance.
Douglas County (Nev.)--1880-1900.; Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.)--1880-1900.; Dirt roads--Nevada--Douglas County--1880-1900.; Lakes & ponds--Nevada--Douglas County--1880-1900.; Retaining walls--Nevada--Douglas County--1880-1900.
View shows mining buildings at the Combined Consolidated Virginia and Consolidated California shaft owned by the Bonanza firm, Virginia City, Nevada. A sign on the mill building reads: "C & C shaft."
Men pose at the mouth of the Sutro Tunnel which is marked by an elaborate entryway, Virginia City, Nevada. The tunnel is nine miles long and was used to drain the mines on the Comstock lode. Painted on the entry: "Commenced October 19th, 1869,...
Sutro Tunnel (Nev.)--1870-1890.; Virginia City (Nev.)--1870-1890.; Miners--Nevada--Virginia City--1870-1890.; Mining--Nevada--Virginia City--1870-1890.; Tunnels--Nevada--Virginia City--1870-1890.
The houses on Gunnell Hill in Central City, Colorado, are built of wood and brick. The houses in the foreground on Nevada Street, which are built above a retaining wall, are two story, brick buildings with flat roofs and decorative brick cornices....
Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
Men in suits pose by stacked silver or gold ingots from mines in Virginia City, Nevada. Storefront sign reads: "Wells Far[go] Exp[ress]; shows a woman with a dog.
Virginia City (Nev.)--1880-1900.; Gold--Nevada--Virginia City--1880-1900.; Mining--Nevada--Virginia City--1880-1900.; Silver--Nevada--Virginia City--1880-1900.
Unpaved Main Street is bordered by commercial, clapboard storefronts with false fronts and cornices in Nevadaville, Colorado (also known as Bald Mountain, Nevada, and Nevada City), a small town located in Gilpin County. The "Bald Mt. Post Office"...
Nevadaville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Business districts--Colorado--Nevadaville--1930-1940.; Post offices--Colorado--Nevadaville--1930-1940.
Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, gold mining boom and bust town, also known as Nevada City and Nevada; view looking west over town on treeless slopes; shows a man in a horse drawn carriage on Pat Casey's road and a number of mines, mills, and...
A lone two-story brick building stands next to a hillside on Nevada Street in Central City, Colorado. It is a box-shaped structure with a flat roof and two visible chimneys. A large rectangular window is above the door, and the door and the...
Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
View of mining processing facilities in (possibly) Clark County, Nevada; shows tin buildings with a smokestack, a water tank, a team of horses, and a stream, desert, and mountains.
Clark County (Nev.)--1900-1910.; Horse teams--Nevada--Clark County--1900-1910.; Mills--Nevada--Clark County--1900-1910.; Mining--Nevada--Clark County--1900-1910.
View of American Flat mining processing facility of the Comstock Mine, Storey County, Nevada; shows mine sheds, tailings, elevators, water tanks and low hills.
Storey County (Colo.)--1910-1940.; Buildings--Nevada--Storey County--1910-1940.; Mills--Nevada--Storey County--1910-1940.; Mining--Nevada--Storey County--1910-1940.
Men stand and pose near timber mine buildings and a mine entrance on a hillside in probably Nevada. Log and ore piles are beside ore car tracks and a tipple. A dirt road is on a hill and in a valley with mountains in the distance. Sparse trees are...
Mine buildings--Nevada--1860-1900.; Miners--Nevada--1860-1900.; Mining--Nevada--1860-1900.; United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881)
A man sits on a rocky shore beside the Colorado River in Iceberg Canyon, on the border of Mojave County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada. Shows steep rock cliffs.
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1870-1880.; Iceberg Canyon (Ariz. and Nev.)--1870-1880.; Canyons--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--1870-1880.; Rivers--1870-1880.; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
View of snow covered mountains with sparse trees in the Aura Mining District in the Bull Run Mountains, Elko County, Nevada. A trail in the snow traverses the hillside.
Bull Run Mountains (Nev.)--1870-1880.; Elko County (Nev.)--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Nevada--Elko County--1870-1880.; Mountains--Nevada--Elko County--1870-1880.; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
Panoramic photograph of Goldfield (Esmerelda County), Nevada. Shows the chimney stack of the Goldfield Brewery, canvas tents and wood frame buildings, and the pointed peak of Columbia Mountain.
Columbia Mountain (Nev.)--1900-1910.; Goldfield (Nev.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Nevada--Goldfield--1900-1910.; Tents--Nevada--Goldfield--1900-1910.
Men (including McCormick, James Horsburgh, Jr., Professor Joseph N. LeConte, and a Black man) pose with candle lanterns before a visit to the Comstock Mine, in Virginia City (Storey County), Nevada.
Large rocks are in the Truckee River near Donner Lake in Nevada County, California. Shows trees and the silhouette of mountains in the distance.
Nevada County (Calif.)--1860-1870.; Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.)--1860-1870.; Rapids--California--Nevada County--1860-1870.; Rivers--California--Nevada County--1860-1870.
Document dated May 10th, 1870; signed by A. von Schulz, assayer.
Nevada District (Colo.)--History--To 1876.; Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--Gilpin County--1870.; Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--Nevada District--1870.