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Latest panoramic view of the world's greatest gold camp, Rawhide
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Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada
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No old shelf mark. Panoramic photographic view. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Tonopah, Nevada "Picture of a rising Metropolis." Pictures of Tonopah, Tonopah-Rawhide Tunnel Co.
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Bird's eye view of the City of Goldfield : once a desert country, now a thriving business community of 20,000 population there is more money in Goldfield per capita than in any other city on earth
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No old shelf mark. One of 12 views on this sheet showing various mining operations in addition to the photographic birds-eye view. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Goldfield, Nevada Mining photographs.
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Map of the Washington Irrigated Colony
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Old shelf number: eph J4-7(5). "The Washington Colony was inaugurated in February, 1878, with five sections of land, Lots 1 to 176, inclusive, which sold so rapidly that the company has added six additional sections, adjoining, of equally good first quality land, Lots 177 to 348, inclusive, this April, 1879." A four page newspaper describing "The Washington Irrigated Colony" in great depth. Centered on the town of Covell, a birds-eye view on the first page along with a greatly distorted submap of California act as inducements for buyers. The offices of the colony are in San Francisco. The colony map is on page four. This appears to now be the town of Easton. Submaps: Birds-eye view; Southern California; Map of the town of Covell. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Letterpress. Verso Text: MS note: Eph J-4-7(5).
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Views of Los Angeles and Vicinity, (bulk 1876)
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78 stereographic photographs depicting plant life in and around Los Angeles, California; birds-eye views of various parts of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Bernardino; Wilmington Harbor; various missions (including Mission San Gabriel [nos. 65, 135], San Juan Capistrano [nos. 154, 155, 156], Mission San Luis Rey [nos. 50, 158, 159, 162, 164], and Mission San Diego [nos. 165, 166, 167]); landscapes; and sections of Payne's panorama of Los Angeles [nos. 211-216 and 218-220]. Payne numbers 3, 10, 51, 53 (two images with the same number), 57, 58, 59, 62, 65, 68, 70, 75, 76, 77, 79, 87, 93, 95, 113, 134, 135, 141, 146, 149, 150, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 162, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168 (6 images with the same number, sections 1-5 of the panorama of San Diego), 173, 175, 178, 179, 180, 187, 188, 193, 194, 198, 200, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 218, 219, 220, and nine unnumbered images. Some images exist in duplicate. The mounts are stamped with three titles: Payne's Semi-Tropical California, Semi-Tropical California Scenery, and Southern California Scenery. The former two make up the bulk of the collection.
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Central Pacific R.R. and views adjacent
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An album of 48 mammoth plate photographs by Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) of scenes along the California-Nevada route of the Central Pacific Railroad, from ports in the San Francisco Bay Area to the Sierra Nevada mountain passes. The majority of views were made in 1876, with a few made later, approximately 1879-1880s. The album begins with a photograph of a locomotive that has just traveled across the continent and has arrived at the Oakland Long Wharf, followed by scenes of a train and its passengers being transported on a railroad ferry. Other Central Pacific Railroad views depict a massive wooden bridge being built over the American River, with one view prominently featuring Chinese workers hauling rock in wheelbarrows. Trains are shown navigating through a mountain pass at Cape Horn, and railroad workers are seen posed with locomotives. Other scenes on the Central Pacific route include Soda Springs recreation area, with views of Mark Hopkins cabin, a man and two women under a gazebo, and a croquet game set up in a meadow. There are a series of views of Lake Tahoe, including two hotels with people posed outside; scenic views of the mountains, lake and surroundings from multiple viewpoints; Emerald Bay; Fallen Leaf Lake; boats and docks; and a lumber mill on the shore at Glenbrook. A narrow-gauge lumber railroad is shown in the mountains near Spooner Summit, and there are two birds-eye-views of the town of Reno, Nevada, that include the train station, buildings and boardwalks.
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This is to certify that H. H. Flagg ... Gold Hill Fire Department
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Image of a firefighter's membership certificate from the Gold Hill Fire Department of Gold Hill, Nevada, made out in manuscript to H. H. Flagg and dated May 22, 1867, with multiple vignettes including bare-chested goddesses riding two horses, with one holding a triton; a manual fire engine and a steam fire engine; a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a wounded firefighter on a mattress being nursed by a young woman while another fireman on a ladder behind them lowers a bundle tied in a rope; two eye-level exterior views of firehouses, both labeled "Yellow Jacket Engine Ho."; and an elevated landscape view presumably of the town of Gold Hill, Nevada; the certificate and vignettes are decorated with borders containing ivy leaves, bean pods, grapes, and other plants and firefighting equipment including fire hydrants, hoses, ladders, hats, speaking trumpets, a lantern, censers, and axes.
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