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W. Rose's Revised Chart of the Comstock Mines and Sutro Tunnel, State of Nevada / Compiled & Drawn by W. Rose. October 1878



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    W. Rose's chart of the Comstock Mines and Sutro Tunnel, State of Nevada / Compiled and drawn by W. Rose

    Rare Books

    Surround contains many vignettes and prominent buildings. Many vignettes in surround. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 255540.

    255540

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    Sutro Tunnel Company letterbook

    Manuscripts

    Letterbook kept by C.C. Thomas, superintendent of the Sutro Tunnel Company, from March to November 1882. The letters describe company business and operating expenses, as well as repairs made on the Sutro Tunnel. Also includes a sketch showing the claim of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company.

    mssHM 74760

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    Map of the mines on the Comstock Lode and vicinity, Nevada

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    A detailed map of overlapping claims, clearly showing the location of the Sutro Tunnel. MS note: 373959. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Steel engraving.

    373959

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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.

    photCL 144

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    Treadwell's new map of the Comstock mines : State of Nevada, 1876

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    "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1876 by J. B. Treadwell, C.E. in the office of the Librarian at Washington D.C." Vignette: Mountain view above. MS note: 149919. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes.

    149919

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    State of Nevada : compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources / Compiled and drawn by H. Ruh. Relief revised by D. E. Walker. Revised by T. W. Gates

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    At head of title: "United States Department of the Interior General Land Office." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: shaded. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.

    264704