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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
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    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