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Wahmonie Panoramic Photographs - Wahmonie, NV

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 2,400.00 USD
Wahmonie Panoramic Photographs - Wahmonie, NV
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Holabird-Kagin Americana Office
3555 Airway Drive Suite#309
Reno, NV 89511
Thursday Feb 20th, 10am-6pm
* Preview also available by appointment

Live Auction
Friday & Saturday
Feb 20 & 21, 2014
9am PDT starting time, both days

Location
Atlantis Casino & Resort
Paradise A Room
3800 S. Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89502

Lot Pick Up
Holabird-Kagin Americana Office
3555 Airway Drive Suite #309
Reno, NV 89511
Sunday February 23rd, 10am-1pm

c1920 Lot of 2. 1) Panorama of the mining camp from up the hill. Tents and a few early automobiles dot the sagebrush in the otherwise empty valley 30 miles east of Beatty. 2) A panorama of the miners (some pictured with family) hired by George Wingfield to work the Shoshone Mountain mining camp. The camp was organized in 1928 "when two prospectors Mcrae and Lefler rediscovered silver in the old Hornsilver Mine" [Ref: Carlson, Nevada Place Names, 1974, p. 240]. The camp was south of the mine (which is not pictured in either of the panoramas). The Hornsilver was so named because of the rich hornsilver ore found here [Ref: Carlson, Nevada Place Names, 1974, p. 136]. Each 30.5" x 8" and are currently rolled. Photographer was N.E. (Ned) Johnson from Beatty, NV. Johnson was known to have doucmented the mining booms in a number of Nevada and California towns and camps including Bodie, Bullfrog, Rhyolite, and Rawhide. He was active between 1902 and 1931. New prints of Johnson`s photographs have been made available. These two panoramas are original prints from the 1920s. - HKA#66325