Train car of the Virginia & Truckee Railway in Carson City, Nevada, ca.1935

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Photograph of a train car of the Virginia & Truckee Railway in Carson City, Nevada, ca.1935. The words "Virginia & Truckee" can be seen across the length of the car above 13 rectangular windows. Stairs lead to a walkway as well as a door at the end of the car on the left. The wheels can be seen sitting on the tracks that lie on the grassy ground below. In the background on the left, a small, darkly-colored building with lightly-colored trim sits amongst a backdrop of trees and a faint mountain side.; Picture file card reads "The gaudy looking cars -- yellow trimmed with red -- look like circus cars. The Virginia & Truckee Railway connecting Reno, Carson City and Virginia City was built in 1864. This railway at one time operated 26 trains daily between Reno and Virginia City".

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Title Train car of the Virginia & Truckee Railway in Carson City, Nevada, ca.1935

Subject Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Carson City (file heading), railroad features (adlf), Virginia and Truckee Railway (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Carson City (city or populated place), Nevada (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1935

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1935

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19160

Identifier 20280 (accession number), CHS-20280 (call number), CHS-20280 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19072 (legacy record id), chs-m19160 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14216 (legacy record id), 1-113-55 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19072

Unique identifier UC136532

Legacy Identifier CHS-20280.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.7 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
52.6 cm × 42.8 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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