NEVADA Mount Davidson - Antique Print Wood Engraving

Landscape

1800-1899

Vintage

Original Print

Unsigned

Dealer or Reseller

View of Mount Davidson
Nevada

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Type of print:

Wood engraving - Original antique print

Year of printing:

c 1880

Artist - Engraver - Publisher:

n/a - n/a - Heinrich Schmidt, Leipzig

Condition:

Excellent - Very good - Good - Fair

Size of print in inches:

9 1/2 x 13 (image size: 6 x 9), 1 inch = 2,54 cm

Type of paper:

Thick - Heavier - Medium heavy - Thin

Reverse side:

Blank - With text or pictures

Notes:

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Description:

The history of Nevada from 1860 to 1910 is largely a story of two mining booms separated by a 20-year depression from 1880 to 1900. The Comstock Lode began the first boom. Peter O'Riley and Patrick McLaughlin in 1859 discovered silver and gold on Sun Mountain (later named Mount Davidson), starting a rush to the so-called Washoe Diggings. Within a short time thousands of people arrived in the area. Immigrants composed a large portion of those who came to Nevada: Chinese immigrants helped build the Central Pacific Railroad across Nevada in the late 1860s; Italians and Swiss worked in smelters; and Irishmen worked deep in the mines. French-Canadians also lumbered the areas around Lake Tahoe, Germans farmed the Carson Valley, and later Basques and Scots tended sheep. Most of those working in the mining business were living in three new towns: Virginia City, Gold Hill, and Silver City. People lived in all types of buildings, and their diggings littered the landscape for miles around. Virginia City, especially, was a combination of industrial city and frontier town, with mine and mill buildings, foundries, and railroad yards alongside gambling houses, saloons, and dance halls.

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