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Postcard of scenes in central Nevada, circa 1927-1930s

Information

Date
1927 to 1939
Description
A picture postcard with photographs with the captions "Badger hole;" "Electric Gold Mines, Weepah, Nevada;" "Crowd looking at rich strike;" "Town of Weepah, Nevada where rich gold strike was made;" "Frank Horton, Geo. Wingfield;" "The rich strike;" "Traynor and Horton, boys who found the gold." Leonard Traynor and Frank Horton, Jr., found gold ore in Weepah, Nevada in early spring 1927; George Wingfield was a prominent banker and miner in Nevada in the early decades of the twentieth century. The "badger hole" was where Traynor and Horton reportedly made their first gold strike.
Digital ID
pho018465
Physical Identifier
0361_0085
Permalink
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1n873374
Details
Subject
Traynor, Leonard F., 1908-1971
Horton, Frank, Jr.
Wingfield, George, 1876-1959
Headframes (Mining)
Automobiles
Men
Panoramic views
Cities and towns
Mining camps
Place
Weepah
Resource Type
Still Image
Material Type
postcards
Source
Collage of Badger Hole, Electric Gold Mines in Weepah, prospectors, Frank Horton, George Wingfield, and the Traynor and Horton boys who found gold in Weepah, Nevada, undated
Citation

pho018465. Nevada Mining Photograph Collection. PH-00361. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1n873374.

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Digital Provenance
Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
Extent
4117 x 3180 pixels
6.862 x 5.3 inches
39,300,668 bytes
Language

English

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