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Nevada, Tuscarora Photograph

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Nevada, Tuscarora Photograph
Photograph of 6 men, including two African Americans, taken with what appears to be finished and unfinished lumber in the foreground. Measures 3" x 5", mounted on thin "wooden" matte measuring 4" x 6". "DW Earl & Co" written on matte below bottom of image, barely legible. Small square of information attached on reverse: "Sisson, Wallace & Co. D.W. Earl. D.W. Earl & Co., Forwarding and Commission Merchants. Wholesale Dealers in Flour, Grain, Salt, Coal, Lumber, Mining Timbers. TUSCARORA, NEV." Several names hand-written (illegible) at top of reverse, including "Earl Sr.," and "1889." The town of Tuscarora, about 45 miles NW of Elko, began as a mining camp for the Mt. Blitzen mining district, and had a post office by July, 1871. Named by John Beard, who brought the name Tuscarora from the "hemp gatherers" of North Carolina [Carlson, 1974, pp. 236]. The town's most productive years were 1870-1890, when its mines produced $40,000,000 in silver. At it's peak, the town's population was about four thousand people, split almost equally between whites and Chinese [Ref: ghosttowns.com].City: TuscaroraCounty: ElkoState: NV
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