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Exterior view of the Pipers Opera House in Virginia City, Nevada, showing fire hydrant and crumbling brick wall, ca.1935

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Title	Exterior view of the Pipers Opera House in Virginia City, Nevada, showing fire hydrant and crumbling brick wall, ca.1935
Description	Photograph of an exterior view of the Pipers Opera House in Virginia City, Nevada, showing fire hydrant and crumbling brick wall, ca.1935. A split-level two-story building is shown at center on a gentle slope. The building, constructed in what appears to be the Second Empire style of architecture, is primarily clapboard, with its colonnaded face surfaced in brick, while this face of the building also bears a decorative medallion. Each of the main doors and windows is framed by a decorative arch. The building is in a slight state of disrepair: the shingles of its roof are uneven and warped, a brick and stovepipe chimney on the lower roof is bent, some of the clapboard has come undone and several panes of glass appear to be missing from the leftmost window. A fire hydrant and crumbling brick wall are visible in the left foreground.; Pipers Opera House, the oldest theatre in Nevada, was built by John Piper in 1864. In its heyday, it played the best talent available. The front was a bar room, while another part of the building was once used as a city jail. At the time of the photograph, it was the oldest theater in Nevada.
Subject (adlf)	buildings
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 ; 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Accession number	20419
Call number	CHS-20419
Microfiche number	1-113-35
Legacy record ID	chs-m19095; 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-20419
Archival file	chs_Volume105/CHS-20419.tiff

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