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CA - Bodie,Mono County - 1958 - Bodie Photographs (Modern)

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Photographic Images Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
CA - Bodie,Mono County - 1958 - Bodie Photographs (Modern)
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Lot of 2 photographs and six new postcards (5 1/2 x 3 1/2), including: 1) a photo of what is probably the Standard Mill, measures 10 1/2" x 4", on beige matte measuring 12" x 5". "Bodie 7/4/58" on reverse in pen. Good size flock of sheep are grazing contentedly in front and below the main mill buildings. Contrast is high, focus is sharp, with no photographer listed. 2) "Bodie Wagon," with grass growing axle high and the Methodist Church and spire visible in the upper right. By James C. Ritchie, 2008-2011. Measures 9" x 6 1/2", mounted on white matte measuring 10" x 8". This photo appears on the dust jacket for Bodie: The Mines Are Well. The History of the Bodie Mining District, Mono County, California, by Michael H. Piatt. 3) Two modern postcards of the Standard Mill, one shot from the side and one a front shot from a distance. When the original wooden mill burned in the late 1890s, the owners recovered enough gold amid the wreckage to build a new 20 stamp mill. Theodore Hoover, the brother of President Hoover, was superintendent of the mill. 4) Two modern postcards of the Methodist Church, built in 1879. The town supported a resident pastor during its boom days, and the church was partially restored in 1928. 5) A modern postcard of the Bodie School House, which employed up to three teachers. The brick building behind the school was a substation for Thomas Edison's first long distance power line, which ran from Green Creek to Bodie. 6) A modern postcard of the President Garfield Monument in the Cemetery of Bodie. Money was originally raised for a monument to William Bodey, the namesake of the town, following his death in the snow. President Garfield was assassinated prior to the inscription being placed on the monument, so it was changed to honor the President. Gold was discovered by Wm. S. Bodey on Bodie Bluffs in 1859, and with an eventual yield of $80 million over the life of its mines, began the story of the mining camp named Bodie.