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Virigina City, Nevada. Miners of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company
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Identifier
ov071
Title
Virigina
City
,
Nevada
.
Miners
of the
Consolidated
Virginia
Mining
Company
Creator
Unknown
;
Date Created
circa
1880s
Description
Group
portrait
of
miners
in
employee
of
Consolidated
Virginia
Mining
Company
,
Virginia
City
,
Nevada
.
Inscription
on
front
of
photograph
: "
ConVirginia
Mining
Co
.
Virginia
City
,
Nevada
.
49.
"
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Background
In
1859
,
gold
was
discovered
in the
Virginia
City
,
Nevada
,
area
, and by
1860
the
city
was
well
established
as the
center
of
Comstock
Mining
District
,
named
after
one
of the
early
miners
,
Henry
T
. "
Pancake
"
Comstock
. The
partnership
of
four
Irishmen
,
John
Mackay
,
James
Fair
,
William
S
.
O'Brien
, and
James
Flood
,
made
the
most
significant
discovery
on the
Comstock
Lode
,
hitting
the "
Big
Bonanza
" at the
Consolidated
Virginia
, a
silver
strike
in
1873
that
yielded
a
profit
of
166
million
dollars
by
1878
. Their
mining
interests
appropriately
became
known
as the "
Bonanza
Firm.
"
Virginia
City
and its
surrounding
area
grew
as
well
, and by
1875
had a
population
of
25,000
.
After
1878
the
bonanza
days
withered
as the
veins
ran
out
or
declined
in
quality
. The
introduction
of the
cyanide
method
in the
mid
1890s
for
extracting
gold
and
silver
ore
helped
maintain
Comstock's
mining
,
although
not at
previous
levels
. By the
1940s
mining
had
played
out
, and
Viriginia
City
survived
as a
tourist
attraction
.
Virginia
City
was
part
of a
web
of
mining
towns
that
developed
in
eastern
California
and
western
Nevada
in the
late
nineteenth
century
. The
towns
of the
Owens
Valley
were
linked
to this
web
by
social
ties
and
often
economic
ones
.
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/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Language
eng
;
Subject (Name)
Consolidated
Virginia
Mining
Company
;
Subject (Place)
Viriginia
City
(Nev.)
;
Comstock
Lode
(Nev.)
;
Comstock
Lode
Mining
District
(Nev.)
;
Subject (Topic)
Silver
mines
and
mining--Nevada--Comstock
Lode
;
Miners--Nevada--Comstock
Lode
;
Mining
Corporations--Nevada--Virginia
City
;
Form/Genre
Photographs
;
Postcards
;
Metacollection Identifier
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number
J
.
D
.
Black
Papers
,
CSLA-15
,
Series
3
:
Photographs
,
Subseries
B
:
Abandoned
Properties
,
Owens
Valley
,
Box
16
,
Sleeve
32
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