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/dlp/copyright.htm
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