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Rawhide Certificates

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana Start Price:1,500.00 USD Estimated At:3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Rawhide Certificates
This album contains the entire history of this Nevada mining camp in one place! Rawhide is an example of a mining town than on production. Rawhide is an example of a mining town than on production. The gold mine stock manipulation poured millions into the pockets of the manipulators but very little to the stockholders. Despite the fact that Rawhide had three banks, four churches, a school, twelve hotels, twenty-eight restaurants, a theater, thirty-seven saloons and a population of 5,000.
Rawhide was a boom and bust town. This album contains stocks, real photo post cards, billheads and books! 32 mining stocks include The Rawhide Mining Company, Rawhide Gold Reef Mining Company, Rawhide Balloon Fraction Mining Company, The Nevada Rawhide Gold Mining Company, The Rawhide Junction Mining Company etc. 19 real photo post cards of Rawhide; many of them of the fire. 1 photo, 2 pamphlets, small sack to carry gold samples, 2 used covers and 3 unused covers, and 3 checks including the First Exchange Bank and the Bank of Rawhide. Includes 14 billheads such as the Rawhide Mining Company and the Rawhide Marigold Mining Company. And a 1945 printing of Riley Grannan's infamous eulogy!!! All are in very good to excellent condition.
From the post cards relive the days of the Rawhide fire in 1905. It was reported that the town was rebuilding before the last flame was extinguished. From the worthless stocks that were promoted by such infamous characters as George Graham Rice and Nat Goodwin imagine what this investment meant for these stockholders – common men trying to make a living. From the photographs imagine what it was like to live in such a desolate, desert community. From the billheads, learn what companies plied their trade here. And from the propaganda see why this town, this dream drew so many people, so much wealth.
City: [/b]RawhideCounty: Mineral CountyState: NV
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