Savage Cage, Virginia City

Savage Cage, Virginia City

Photograph

Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Maker
American, b. Ireland, 1840–1882

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]
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