View of the Consolidated Virginia Mineshaft in Virginia City, Nevada, showing hills in the background, ca.1935

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Title	View of the Consolidated Virginia Mineshaft in Virginia City, Nevada, showing hills in the background, ca.1935
Description	Photograph of a view of the Consolidated Virginia Mineshaft in Virginia City, Nevada, showing hills in the background, ca.1935. The wooden frame of a mining apparatus stands at the right centerground of the picture. The foreground of the picture contains mining debris, including a large-diameter pipe, wood scraps, and scrap metal. More debris is visible on the ground in the centerground. A burst of smoke or steam hangs in the air in the left middle ground, apparently emitted from a low metal structure which bisects the left side of the image. Small houses are visible in the near background, while hills occupy the remainder.; The shaft of the Consolidated Virginia Mine was at one time considered the richest in the world. Its great strike was made in March 1873.
Subject (adlf)	mine sites
Subject (file heading)	Mining -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Virginia City
Subject (lcsh)	Mines and mineral resources
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Virginia City
Geographic subject (state)	Nevada
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1935
Photographer	Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1935
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm., 26 x 21 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Accession number	20423
Call number	CHS-20423
Microfiche number	1-113-31
Legacy record ID	chs-m19099; USC-1-1-1-14223
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-20423
Archival file	chs_Volume105/CHS-20423.tiff

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