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Carson City, Nevada. Railroad Station
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Description
Identifier
ov037
Title
Carson
City
,
Nevada
.
Railroad
Station
Creator
Unknown
;
Date Created
circa
1880s
Description
Railroad
station
at
Carson
City
Nevada
.
Railroad
personnel
,
most
likely
those of the
Virginia
and
Truckee
Railroad
Company
,
along
walls
of
station
.
Carriages
waiting
at
station
for
passengers
. The
two-wheeled
carriage
in the
center
is
from the
Park
Hotel
.
Telephone
lines
overhead
.
Inscription
on
front
of
photograph
: "THE
DEPOT
CARSON
,
NEV
.
PHOTO
CO
.
172.
"
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Background
The
Virginia
and
Truckee
Railroad
Company
was
incorporated
in
1868
and
began
construction
of a
line
from
Virginia
City
,
Nevada
, to
Carson
City
,
Nevada
, in
1869
. The
line
was
fully
functioning
in
1870
and
served
the
great
silver
mines
of the
Sierra
Nevada
,
such
as the
Comstock
,
near
Virginia
City
. In the
early
1870s
some
80
to
100
carloads
of
ore
from
mines
in the
areas
of
Virginia
City
;
Minden
,
Nevada
; and
Washoe
Lake
were
being
sent
daily
to
Carson
City
for
smelting
. The
line
was
eventually
expanded
to
Reno
,
Nevada
, in
1872
. The
station
here at
Carson
City
served
as the
main
offices
of the
railroad
company
. The
Owens
Valley
was
closely
related
culturally
and
even
economically
to the
mining
towns
of
western
Nevada
that the
railroad
serviced
.
Type
image
;
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
b&w
;
8
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/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Language
eng
;
Subject (Name)
Virginia
and
Truckee
Railroad
Company
;
Subject (Place)
Carson
City
(Nev.)
;
Viriginia
City
(Nev.)
;
Comstock
Lode
(Nev.)
;
Reno
(Nev.)
;
Subject (Topic)
Railroad
stations--Nevada--Carson
City
;
Silver
mines
and
mining--Nevada
;
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
5
,
Sleeve
19
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