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
The Compton Studio collection in the Utah State University Special Collections and Archives division of Merrill Library houses over 100,000 glass-plate, nitrate and acetate negatives. Alma Compton started the Compton Studio in 1884 in Brigham City,...
Brigham City (Utah) -- Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho) -- Pictorial works; Landscape -- Pictorial works
Railroad station at Ephraim, Utah, 1911. To the left is a horse-drawn hearse waiting at the depot to pick up the body of a man killed in a mining accident. About twenty men in suits are standing expectantly awaiting the train. Light covering of...