Manuscripts

Virginia City and California history notebooks

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Description: Five notebooks, by an unknown author, regarding historical resources for Virginia City, Nevada, and California history. Two notebooks includes sources from the newspaper Territorial Enterprise, which was founded by William Jernegan and Alfred James in December 1858 in Virginia City, Nevada.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: after 1927.
Call number: mssVCV
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of March 2020.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Virginia City Foundation Trust certificates of trust receipt books

Manuscripts

Receipt book for donations collected by the Virginia City Foundation Trust to preserve and restore Virginia City, Nevada.

mssVirginia

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Virginia City And The Comstock

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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Mayor & Board of Aldermen of the City of Virginia vs California Mining Co. 4 items

Manuscripts

The material is chiefly related to the economic and social history of late 19th century Virginia City, Nevada; some materials show economic connections between Virginia City and San Francisco as well as inter-state relations between Nevada and California. The collection is 90% legal documents. These documents are related to specific court cases (most filed with the First Judicial District State of Nevada). They are grouped case by case and contained in Boxes 1-11. Other types of legal documents, including deeds, indentures, and agreements, are housed in Box 12. Finally, miscellaneous legal documents share Box 13 with non-legal documents, a letter, and ephemera. The items in each series are in chronological order. Although the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company and California Mining Company are prominent in the collection, the collection includes documents related to more than 50 other mining companies (too numerous to list here). The documents comes from a variety of different law suits including: mining companies suing one another over the uses of resources such as water, building material, railroads, roads and tunnels; and employees suing their employers for wages or injury compensation.

mssComstocklode

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k WRECK AT UNION TRESTLE, Virginia City

Manuscripts

mssNevadar

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Mining notebook, Virginia City, Nevada

Manuscripts

The collection consists of two letterbooks containing press copies of Janin's business and personal correspondence between 1878-94, a number of incoming letters (primarily from the Concepcion Mining & Milling Co. for the years 1887-89), several property appraisals authored by Janin in the 1870s, and 47 notebooks and pocket diaries kept by Janin between 1859-89. These notebooks and pocket diaries contain financial accounts, addresses, memoranda, experimental data, and rough notes for mining surveys.

mssJanin, Louis papers

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[Virginia City, Nevada, Dwyer's Haberdashery]

Visual Materials

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. G.W. Miller is identified as the photographer on items 31-33.

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Virginia City and California history notebooks

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