Mouth of Curtis Shaft, Savage Mine

Mouth of Curtis Shaft, Savage Mine

Photograph

Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Maker
American, b. Ireland, 1840–1882

Mouth of Curtis Shaft, Savage Mine

Comstock Lode Mine Works, Virginia City, Nevada


From United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel


January–February 1868
Albumen silver print
Image: 7 × 8 3/8 in. (17.8 × 21.3 cm)
Mount: 18 3/16 × 23 1/4 in. (46.2 × 59.1 cm)
Matted: 20 1/16 × 26 3/16 × 1/4 in. (51 × 66.5 × 0.6 cm)
Gift of Harvard University
1981.1887.0011
Inscriptions Inscribed in negative on recto, BLC: 85
Inscribed in negative on recto, BL: 82
Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, TLC: 27
Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, TRC: M-
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: Mouth of Curtis Shaft. Savage Mine
[unable to see verso at time of cataloging]
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