Loading at the Potosi Mine, Virginia City, Nevada

Artist Thomas Houseworth (American, 1828 - 1915)

Date1865

MediumAlbumen stereograph

DimensionsImage and sheet (both): 3 1/16 × 6 inches (7.78 × 15.24 cm)
Mount: 3 3/8 × 6 7/8 inches (8.57 × 17.46 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.3740

SignedOn mount recto, right edge, in black type: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by LAWRENCE / & HOUSEWORTH, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United / States, for the Northern District of California."; On mount verso, center, in black type: "PHOTOGRAPHED AND PUBLISHED / LAWRENCE & HOUSEWORTH, / OPTICIANS, / IMPORTERS OF STEREOSCOPIC GOODS, / ETC., ETC., / 317 & 319 Montgomery St., San Francisco.".

InscribedOn mount recto, left edge, in black type: "NEVADA"; On mount recto, lower right, in black type: "729. Loading at the Potosi Mine, Virginia City."

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DescriptionImage of a rocky landscape with horse drawn carriages and men pushing carts across a raised path. Houses dot the sloping landscape in the background.

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