Manuscripts

(46) BROADSIDE. Miners! Laboring Men! Mechanics! Rally! Subject The Sutro Tunnel and the Bank of California 18 × 23½ inches. With blank spaces to insert place, date and time of lecture

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1862-1950.
Call number: mssNevadar
Provenance: Purchased from H. A. Levinson, February 27, 1963.; Purchased from Yale Brown, May 16, 1963.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

(48) THE INDEPENDENT, Sutro, Nevada, Vol. V, No. 46, 4 pp., 18 3/4 × 21 inches. Contains on first page, The Sutro Tunnel. An Address Before the Bullion Club, New York City, by Adolph Sutro. Discovery of the First Silver Mine

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.

mssNevadar

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