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[Nevada - Goldfield - Circus parade down main street] – Antique Photo Print

[Nevada - Goldfield - Circus parade down main street] — historic photograph
[Nevada - Goldfield - Circus parade down main street]. Historic photograph from the Circus & Carnival 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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A window into the past: [Nevada - Goldfield - Circus parade down main street], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Goldfield, Nevada, was a raw mining camp when this parade moved down its main street around 1907, only a few years after gold was discovered in the surrounding hills in 1902. Circus parades were among the few spectacles that could halt a boomtown's daily routine, as horses, painted wagons, and costumed performers marched through town to draw crowds to the show grounds. The photograph documents a moment when a town built on hard labor and rough living made room for a day of public pageantry.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1907.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,187 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122941

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