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Photograph of a carriage leaving the tent camp in Bullfrog (Nev.), 1905

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Date
1905-12-01
Description
Freight team leaving Bullfrog, Nevada, December 1, 1905. There is an inscription on the back of the photo: "Headed for Goldfield, 65 miles to the north. Bullfrog was founded after the discovery of gold in the area in 1904. By 1907 Rhyolite, the tent camp at the left in the picture, had become the city of the district with a population of over 6000. The boom was over by the end of 1907." There is a date stamp: 1980.
Digital ID
pho020524
Physical Identifier
0082_0007
Permalink
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d12z12t9f
Details
Subject
Deserts
Carriages and carts
Horses
Place
Bullfrog (historical)
Resource Type
Still Image
Material Type
photographs
photographic prints
Source
Horse freight team leaving Bullfrog, Nevada, 1905 December 01
Citation

pho020524. Central Nevada Historical Society Photograph Collection. PH-00082. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d12z12t9f.

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Digital Provenance
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Extent
3158 x 2187 pixels
5.26 x 3.65 inches
20,725,760 bytes
Language

English

Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Format
image/tiff