Savage Cage, Virginia City
Photograph
Savage Cage, Virginia City
Comstock Lode Mine Works, Virginia City, Nevada
From United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel
January–February 1868
Albumen silver print
Image: 7 1/16 × 9 1/16 in. (18 × 23 cm)
Mount: 18 1/16 × 23 3/4 in. (45.9 × 60.4 cm)
Matted: 20 1/16 × 26 1/8 × 5/16 in. (51 × 66.4 × 0.8 cm)
Gift of Harvard University
1981.1887.0013
Inscriptions Inscribed in negative on recto, BC: 88
Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, TLC: 26
Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, TRC: M6
Printed on mount recto, BC: No. \ U. S. \ Engineer Department. \ Geological Exploration. \ Fortieth Parallel. \ T. H. O'Sullivan, Photographer.
Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, BR: Savage. Cage. Virginia City \ Hoisting Cage with safety device used to haul \ men + equipment in shafts of Savage Mine.
[unable to see verso at time of cataloging]
Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, TLC: 26
Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, TRC: M6
Printed on mount recto, BC: No. \ U. S. \ Engineer Department. \ Geological Exploration. \ Fortieth Parallel. \ T. H. O'Sullivan, Photographer.
Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, BR: Savage. Cage. Virginia City \ Hoisting Cage with safety device used to haul \ men + equipment in shafts of Savage Mine.
[unable to see verso at time of cataloging]
