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NV - Lost City,Clark County - c1920s-1930s - Lost Cioty Excavation Photos - Gil Schmidtmann Collecti

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Photographic Images Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
NV - Lost City,Clark County - c1920s-1930s - Lost Cioty Excavation Photos - Gil Schmidtmann Collecti
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 5 original black and white, 8 x 10” photos, with typewritten captions attached, of the excavations of the Anasazi ruins at Lost City between 1924 and 1938. Two of the photos are of excavated tombs, one photo shows the pounding mills where the people ground their grain, one shows archaeologists excavating the remains of “House No. 2,” and the final photo shows a stone hammer which was excavated in Salt Cave, 6 miles south of Lost City, where the ancient people engaged in mining operations. The ruins of Lost City were officially known as the Pueblo Grande de Nevada, actually a series of ruins located along the Muddy and Virgin River valleys. Today the sites are at the northern end of Lake Mead and continue up both valleys about 30 miles. The Lost City was peopled by the Virgin branch of the Anasazi, originally by the Basketmaker people and later—between A.D. 700 to 1150—the Puebloans. The Anasazi mined salt and turquoise both for their own use and for trade. Upon discovering reports made 100 years earlier by Jedediah Smith, that he had found stone tools in salt caves, Nevada’s Governor James Scrugham sent others to investigate in 1924. The result was that M.R. Harrington, an archaeologist from New York who was working in Nevada, was appointed to lead the investigation and excavation of the Lost City sites. Harrington was the one who gave the name Pueblo Grande de Nevada, which the media converted into “Lost City,” and that became its popular name. Between 1933 and 1938 the Civilian Conservation Corps, under Harrington’s supervision, not only helped in the excavations but built the Boulder Dam Park Museum (now the Lost City Museum of Archaeology) in Overton, to house this important collection of artifacts [Ref: www.realtown.com/chrisshouse/blog/lost-city].