Esmeralda Hotel in Aurora, Nevada, 1920s. Aurora, Nevada was a silver mining boom town founded in 1860. Aurora was in its heyday in the 1860s (Mark Twain briefly lived there), but it slowly declined after 1870. It went through a rebirth in 1912...
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Esmeralda Hotel (Aurora, Nev.) -- Pictorial works
Gallagher & Brown liquor store/saloon in Aurora, Nevada, exterior. Aurora, Nevada was a silver mining boom town founded in 1860. Aurora was in its heyday in the 1860s (Mark Twain briefly lived there), but it slowly declined after 1870. It went...
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Gallagher & Brown Liquor Store/Saloon -- Pictorial works; Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Nevada -- Aurora -- Pictorial works
Gravestone of William E. Carder. Inscription reads: "William E. Carder. Native of Tennessee. Aged 33 years. Was assassinated in Aurora on the night of Dec. 10. 1864. I will avenge, saith the Lord. Erected by his Wife Annie E." Aurora,...
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Carder, William E. 1831-1864
Horse-drawn hearse in Aurora, Nevada, 1920s. Aurora, Nevada was a silver mining boom town founded in 1860. Aurora was in its heyday in the 1860s (Mark Twain briefly lived there), but it slowly declined after 1870. It went through a rebirth in...
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Hearses (Vehicles) -- Pictorial works
Shorty Harris and companion eating next to an automobile somewhere in Death Valley during the 1920s. Harris took most of the photographs in this collection of images taken in the late 1920s in the Death Valley area of Nevada and California...
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Harris, Shorty, 1857-1934 -- Portraits; Automobiles -- Pictorial works
The Bottle House in Rhyolite, Nevada, 1920s. Rhyolite, Nevada was founded in 1904 after Shorty Harris and Ed Cross discovered Rhyolite Quartz at the Bullfrog mine. By 1906 the town had two railroad lines and a population of 10,000. The mines,...
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works ; Bottle House (Rhyolite, Nev.) -- Pictorial works
The train depot of the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad in Rhyolite, Nevada, 1920s. Rhyolite, Nevada was founded in 1904 after Shorty Harris and Ed Cross discovered Rhyolite Quartz at the Bullfrog mine. By 1906 the town had two railroad lines and a...
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Depot (Rhyolite, Nev.) -- Pictorial works
Twenty-mule train near Calico, California, 1905. Calico, California was initially founded as a silver mining town in 1882 but by 1890 the cost of recovering the silver became prohibitive. The town, however, continued to exist until 1907 due to...
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Mules -- Pictorial works; Muleteers -- Portraits.
View across Death Valley from Chloride Cliff, 1920s. One silver gelatin POP print purchased from Amalgre Books of Bloomington, Indiana in April of 1997.
View of Rhyolite, Nevada showing the Overbury Building, 1920s. Rhyolite, Nevada was founded in 1904 after Shorty Harris and Ed Cross discovered Rhyolite Quartz at the Bullfrog mine. By 1906 the town had two railroad lines and a population of...
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Overbury Building (Rhyolite, Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Ghost towns -- Nevada -- Rhyolite -- Pictorial works
View of Rhyolite, Nevada, 1920s. Rhyolite, Nevada was founded in 1904 after Shorty Harris and Ed Cross discovered Rhyolite Quartz at the Bullfrog mine. By 1906 the town had two railroad lines and a population of 10,000. The mines, however, did not...
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Rhyolite (Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Ghost towns -- Nevada -- Rhyolite -- Pictorial works.
