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Photograph of people outside Gold Reef's first business (Nev.), 1908

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1908-10-11

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Gold Reef, Nevada, camp's first business, October 11, 1908. There is an inscription on the back of the image: "The camp's first business, a combination saloon, restaurant, barber shop and general store, October 11, 1908. Gold Reef was located 8 miles south of Tonopah in the Gold Mountain mining district. The camp was founded after rich gold outcrops were discovered nearby, but the deposits were small and the camp had vanished by 1910. The area came to life again during the Divide boom of 1919, but was abandoned again by 1925. E.W. Smith photo." There is a date stamp: 1984.

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pho020535

Physical Identifier

0082_0019
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    pho020535. 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/d1np1wp4p.

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    Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

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    2901 x 2244 pixels
    4.84 x 3.74 inches
    19,546,112 bytes

    Language

    English

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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    image/tiff