Tonopah (Nev.) -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Goldfield Coming Nation Gold Mines prospectus
Collection
Identifier: 99-52
Abstrac
Company prospectus advertise the riches to be made from their mines, report on gold yields to date, list names of claims, and offer investment opportunities. One brochure includes photos of Tonopah, Nevada
Letters from A. C. Williams to Leonora Kennedy
Collection
Identifier: 2017-46
Overview
Albert C. Williams was born in Nevada in 1883 and lived in Austin and Tonopah, Nevada. In 1904 he worked for the Nevada Central Railroad train station, which ran from Austin to Battle Mountain, Nevada and connected to the Southern Pacific. By September of the same year, he found a new job at a bank in Tonopah. Collection contains four letters from Williams to his cousin Leonora Kennedy who lived in Florin, California.
Manuscript Thesis Draft of The Tonopah, Goldfield, Bullfrog Mining Districts, 1900-1915: History of a Twentieth Century Mining Boom
Collection
Identifier: 2017-84
Overview
Russell Richard Elliott was a Nevada historian, author, and professor in the History Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Collection contains a bound copy of Russell Elliott's Ph.D. in History thesis from University of California, Berkeley in 1946.
Monarch Pittsburg Mining Company ledger
Collection
Identifier: 2001-09
Abstract
Ledger lists expenses which date from January 1926 to October 1932.
Sodaville (Nev.) Letters
Collection
Identifier: 2017-78
Overview
Sodaville, Nevada was a station for the Carson and Colorado Railroad and the point at which all freight bound for Tonopah, Nevada, 50 miles to the southeast, was unloaded. Collection contains typed copies of two letters written by Fred Corkill on February 3 and 4, 1904 from Goldfield and Butler, Nevada describing Sodaville and his visits to Tonopah mines.