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Photograph of a boom camp in Weepah (Nev.), 1927

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Date
1927-03
Description
Weepah, Nevada, March 1927. There is an inscription on the back of the image: "Shortly after the beginning of Nevada's last "Gold Rush." Rich gold ore was found in the area by Frank Horton Jr. and Leonard Traynor. Within a month over 16000 people had arrived at the new boom camp. The boom was soon over but the district eventually produced over $1,600,000." There is a date stamp: 1980.
Digital ID
pho020525
Physical Identifier
0082_0008
Permalink
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1z60c64s
Details
Subject
Deserts
People
Mountains
Camps
Place
Weepah
Resource Type
Still Image
Material Type
photographs
photographic prints
Source
Weepah, Nevada shortly after the beginning of Nevada's last gold rush, 1927 March
Citation

pho020525. 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/d1z60c64s.

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Digital Provenance
Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
Extent
3173 x 2187 pixels
5.29 x 3.65 inches
20,824,064 bytes
Language

English

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