The diary records an 1874 voyage from New York via Panama to California. The unidentified author describes the weather, the ship's progress, shipboard life, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama, the train trip across the Isthmus, the landscape and villages, Aca...
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada., United States., West (U.S.), Acapulco (Mexico), Colón (Panama), California, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Nevada, Panama, Salt Lake City (Utah), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Central Pacific Railroad Company., Colon (Steamship), Montana (Steamship), Panama Railroad Co., and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Alfalfa, Railroad travel, and Description and travel
Photographs of copper and gold mining activities, camps and miners in Nevada and California, and of a trail ride through the Grand Canyon in Arizona. In Nevada there are views of the Mohawk Mine in Goldfield, the J. R. Crawford Copper Mine and camp n...
Description:
Detailed manuscript captions are in the hand of J.R. Crawford. Several photographs and all of the postcards are views by commercial photographers in Nevada and California (Kennedy, Larson, Mitchell, Owens, Rieder, and Weidner).
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada., California., Goldfield (Nev.), Reno (Nev.), Ragtown (Nev.), Tonopah (Nev.), Nevada, Sierra Madre Mountains (Calif.), California, and Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Crawford, Jack Randall, 1878- and Tarantula Mine (Calif.)
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Copper mines and mining, and Mines and mineral resources
