Sutro tunnel. Sutro tunnel and mule train. Adolph Sutro, founder of the Sutro tunnel. Sutro from the tunnel. Sutro mansion and machine shop – Antique Wall Art
(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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This rare historic print captures Sutro tunnel. Sutro tunnel and mule train. Adolph Sutro, founder of the Sutro tunnel. Sutro from the tunnel. Sutro mansion and machine shop in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sutro tunnel. Sutro tunnel and mule train. Adolph Sutro, founder of the Sutro tunnel. Sutro from the tunnel. Sutro mansion and machine shop
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This composite gathers five views on one sheet: Adolph Sutro himself, the tunnel entrance, a mule train, Sutro's mansion, and a machine shop. Together they tie the man to the project he championed. Sutro pushed for a drainage and access tunnel driven under the Comstock Lode, which ran beneath Virginia City, to drain flooded silver mines and carry ore out. Work on the tunnel stretched across the 1870s, and its mule-hauled traffic shows how much of the Comstock's industry still depended on animals and hand labor. The photographs were made by James H. Crockwell of Virginia City and reproduced by the Albertype Company in New York around 1890, and the sheet was issued in a souvenir album of the Comstock.
| Created / published | N.Y. : The Albertype Co., c1890. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1890.Photomechanical prints 1890. |
| Notes | Photographed and copyrighted, 1890, by Jas. H. Crockwell, Virginia City, Nevada. Composite of five reproductions of photographic prints. In album: Souvenir of the Comstock, p. 15. |
| Subjects | Sutro, Adolph,--1830-1898--Homes & haunts. Mine railroads--Nevada--Virginia City--1890. Silver mining--Nevada--Comstock Lode--1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,277 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184177 |
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