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Identifier
ov162
Title
Rhyolite
,
Nevada
.
Bottle
House
Creator
Mendenhall
,
Harry
W.
,
1882-1952
;
Date Created
circa
1925
Description
A
black-and-white
photograph
of a
house
built
of
50,000
bottles
in
Rhyolite
,
Nevada
, by
Tom
Kelly
in
1906
.
Sign
in
front
of
house
with
title
"The
Bottle
House.
"
Posted
by
Paramount
Pictures
to
record
its
restoration
of the
house
in
1925
for
use
in the
movie
"The
Airmail.
" In the
background
are the
Bullfrog
Mountains
.
Inscription
on
front
of
photograph
: "The
Bottle
House
.
Rhyolite
Nev
.
H.W.M
.
792.
"
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Background
A
major
gold
strike
occurred
in the
Bullfrog
Mountains
of
Nevada
in
1904
,
around
which
the
town
of
Rhyolite
was
organized
that
same
year
. By
1907
the
town
had a
population
of
6000
. The
financial
panic
of
1907
caused
many
of the
mines
to
cease
operations
and by
1920
Rhyolite
was a
ghost
town
. The "
Bottle
House
"
is
one
of the
few
buildings
remaining
in
Rhyolite
.
Rhyolite
ws
one
of the
many
mining
communities
of
western
Nevada
and
eastern
California
that
sprung
up
in the
late
nineteenth
century
and to
which
the
Owens
Valley
had
cultural
and
often
economic
ties
. The
photographer
,
Harry
W
.
Mendenall
, was the
owner
of the
Camera
Art
Shop
in
Big
Pine
,
California
and a
resident
of
Big
Pine
from at
least
1910
until
his
death
in
1952
.
Type
image
;
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
b&w
;
9
x
14
cm
Institution
Center
for the
Study
of
Los
Angeles
Research
Collection
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Collection Identifier
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3w1022nb
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
Public
Domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/dlp/copyright.htm
Language
eng
;
Subject (Name)
Bottle
House
(Rhyolite
,
Nev.)
;
Subject (Place)
Rhyolite
(Nev.)
;
Bullfrog
Hills
(Nev.)
;
Subject (Topic)
Gold
mines
and
mining--Nevada--Rhyolite
;
Houses--Nevada--Rhyolite
Form/Genre
Photographs
;
Postcards
;
Metacollection Identifier
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number
J
.
D
.
Black
Papers
,
CSLA-15
,
Series
3
:
Photographs
,
Subseries
A:
Photographic
Postcards
,
Box
16
,
Sleeve
37
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