Virginia City, Nevada, 1861 – Antique Map 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: Virginia City, Nevada, 1861, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Virginia City, Nevada Territory, 1861
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Virginia City, Nevada, 1861
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Virginia City, Nevada, in 1861 was a mining camp still reeling from its own speed. Silver ore from the Comstock Lode, found on the slopes of Mount Davidson in 1859, had drawn prospectors, merchants and saloonkeepers up a barren hillside, and the town grew faster than its streets could be laid out. Stamp mills and hoisting works rose along the ravines, and freight wagons hauling ore and supplies crowded the roads toward Carson Valley. That same year Congress organized the Territory of Nevada, and the new government sat at Carson City, a short distance away, while Virginia City's residents argued over water, mine claims and the cost of living at high altitude.
| Created / published | 1861 |
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| Creator | brown, grafton tyler, kuchel, charles conrad |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Virginia City, Nevada, drawn in 1861. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Nevada |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,264 × 3,216 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Virginia City, Nevada Territory, 1861 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489814 |
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