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Map of the town of Sutro and other property belonging to the Sutro Tunnel Co. [cartographic material] : Lyon County, Nevada
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(49) BROWNE, ROSS E. Map of the Town of Sutro and other property belonging to the Sutro Tunnel Co. Lyon County, Nevada. Surveyed and drawn by Ross E. Browne
Manuscripts
The collection consists of materials related to railroads built in Nevada and eastern California in connection with the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, and other mining booms in Nevada and California (mainly in the period from 1870-1890). Subjects in the collection include not only the railroad and mining industries but also the lumber industry.
255540[?] 373959[?]
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Reports and estimates on the Pittsburg mine and mining property, Nevada county, California
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Locomotive used in tunnel, Sutro, Nevada [locomotive reads "Comstock Tunnel Co., "Theodore"]
Visual Materials
A personal photograph album of 104 images with handwritten captions chiefly depicting Chester A. Thomas (1874-1920) and Thomas family members between 1892 and 1898 in mining camps in Nevada (pages 1-29); at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California (pages 30-33); visiting Harvard University and Cambridge, Massachusetts (pages 38-49); and at Camp Merritt at the Presidio, San Francisco, in 1898 (pages 33-37 and 50-65). The album includes 20 cyanotype photographs (12.5 x 16.5 cm) of the mining camps in Virginia City and Sutro, Nevada (where Thomas's father, Charles Thomas, was superintendent of the Sutro tunnel), including: mining equipment, miners, locomotive cars, interior views of the mine shaft, buildings and mules. Some of the images are of Camp Merritt, at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, where California volunteers assembled in May-June 1898 for transport to the Philippines during the Spanish American War. Thomas, a member of Company K of the United States Cavalry Volunteers, is depicted as well as other soldiers, including members of the 51st Iowa Volunteers.
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KIRCHHOFF & SPECHT (firm). Profile Map of the Sutro Tunnel, Virginia City, Nevada
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and mining reports), photographs and maps related to the career of mining engineer Charles Janin. Subject matter in the collection focuses on minerals, mines and mining, especially in California, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Russia (including Siberia), and Central and South America. There is information about gold, silver, platinum, and tin mining as well as gold dredging.
mssJaninc
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L. Prang & Co. Map of Boston ... [cartographic material]
Visual Materials
(Boston, 1872) Click here to view catalog record.
342185