Content/DescriptionCircular panorama surrounded by 2 statistical charts of lodes and mills, and 8 vignettes of the region. Marginal images include Virginia City from the south side; Entrance to the Gould & Curry Mine; Sparrow & Trench's Mill; Silver City, Devils Gate and the mills of Silver City; Gold Hill, Mount Davidson and the Ophir Road; the Gold Hill Mines; Entrance to Ophir Mine; the Ophir Works in Washoe Valley.
Title
Washoe, from the summit of Mount Davidson: Birds eye view of Nevada Territory, the Virginia District, Flowery and the deserts of the Emigrant Road, Washoe proper, the Truckee Country, and the Eastern Range of the Sierra Nevada.
Published
c1861.
Full Collection Name
Selected prints from the James De Fremery diaries and scrapbook
Other Identifiers
BANC MSS 85/43 c (folder 82aA)
Type
Image
Extent
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 40 x 52.1 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
One of Vischer's Washoe Mining District series (cf. Peters, Harry T. California on Stone. p. 172).
Not drawn to scale.
Duplicate or variant in The Bancroft Library (G4352.W3A3 1861 V5).
Printed title (MC). Printed (LL): From nature by Edward Vischer; (LC) Explanation of localities, by J.J. Cooper (Virginia City,) May, 1861; (LR): Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by Edward Vischer, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court of the Northern Dist. of California. Lith. & print by Nagel, Fishbourne & Kuchel, cor. Clay & Leidesdorff Strs, San Francisco.
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