Mining on the Comstock / drawn by T.L. Dawes ; engraved and printed by Le Count Bro's., San Francisco. – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: Mining on the Comstock / drawn by T.L. Dawes ; engraved and printed by Le Count Bro's., San Francisco., preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mining on the Comstock / drawn by T.L. Dawes ; engraved and printed by Le Count Bro's., San Francisco.
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Few places captured the mid-century silver boom like the Comstock Lode, the rich vein beneath Virginia City and Gold Hill in western Nevada. This lithograph, drawn by T.L. Dawes and printed by Le Count Bro's. of San Francisco, shows the mining operations that made the district famous in the 1870s, when the Comstock was among the most productive silver fields in the world. Published at Gold Hill by J.B. Marshall, it offers a rare view of the tools, shafts and workers of that industry, and it was later reproduced in *Eyes of the Nation*, a survey of American visual history.
| Created / published | Gold Hill, Nev. : published by J.B. Marshall, 1876, c1877 (San Francisco : engraved and printed by Le Count Bro's.) |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Silver mining--Nevada--Comstock Lode--1870-1880. Prospecting equipment & supplies--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,455 × 1,118 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216460 |
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