[Cabinet card photograph, Mining Town]: Gold Hill, Nevada, [circa 1875]
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- SIGNED Unbound
Unbound. Very Good. Gelatin silver photograph. Image size 5.5" x 3.75" on larger card mount. Some soiling, staining, and small nicks, mostly confined to the mat, a little foxing on the image, about very good. Inked on the verso in an unknown hand "Somewhere in Arizona" but almost certainly incorrect, and rather in Gold Hill, Nevada, home of the Comstock Lode.
A street scene, complete with wooden sidewalks and ramshackle (and perhaps hastily constructed) buildings including a "National Hotel" and "L.B. Frankel Groceries and Liquor". The focus of the image is a large wagon being towed by six horses with an African-American driver, progressing down the town's central thoroughfare, with a hill or mountain in the background, as perhaps two dozen mostly shirt-sleeved loiterers look on singly and in small groups. In 1875 the grocer L.B. Frankel is documented as providing groceries for Gold Hill's "pest house" (although there is some evidence that his tenure there began earlier). An interesting image, worthy of more research.
A street scene, complete with wooden sidewalks and ramshackle (and perhaps hastily constructed) buildings including a "National Hotel" and "L.B. Frankel Groceries and Liquor". The focus of the image is a large wagon being towed by six horses with an African-American driver, progressing down the town's central thoroughfare, with a hill or mountain in the background, as perhaps two dozen mostly shirt-sleeved loiterers look on singly and in small groups. In 1875 the grocer L.B. Frankel is documented as providing groceries for Gold Hill's "pest house" (although there is some evidence that his tenure there began earlier). An interesting image, worthy of more research.