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Firemen with fire engine, Carson City, Ormsby Co., Nevada, ca. 1860 – Historic Print

Firemen with fire engine, Carson City, Ormsby Co., Nevada, ca. 1860, [ca. 1860] — historic photograph
Firemen with fire engine, Carson City, Ormsby Co., Nevada, ca. 1860, [ca. 1860]. Historic photograph from the Fire Engines collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Firemen with fire engine, Carson City, Ormsby Co., Nevada, ca. 1860

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A fire engine and its crew pose in Carson City, the seat of Ormsby County in western Nevada, in a photograph dated only to about 1860. The town was then young, having grown quickly after the 1859 discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode drew miners and merchants to the area. Volunteer fire companies were the usual defense against fire in such boomtowns, where wooden buildings stood close together and water often had to be pumped by hand. The date and subject come from an old caption card and have not been verified, so the picture is best read as evidence of early civic life in the settlement.

Created / published[ca. 1860]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Firemen; Nevada.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 705 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108585

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