South Carson Street, 1870s

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Courtesy of Library of Congress

This photo has a caption at the top that says, "Carson City Looking West." The astute reader will be able to tell this is not, in fact, a look west, rather this is looking south down Carson Street. The photographer is set up in front of the State Capitol Building; the wooden fence at left surrounded the Capitol from when it was finished in 1871 until Hannah Clapp erected a new iron fence in 1875. In the background, behind the buggy and the fellow posing for a portrait, you can see several businesses along Second Street. There is a dentist and the Silver Saloon in the T. Boyd Building, next door there is the Storage, Forwarding and Commission offices, and on the corner of Second and Carson is the low stone building that housed the Daily Appeal, Carson City's newspaper.

In the background, past Second, the street gets more crowded with horses and buggies. On the far right the balcony of the Ormsby House is just barely visible, and in the distance you can see the three-story St. Charles Hotel. The St. Charles is the only bit of this whole picture that still survives today.

Source: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Source URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.nv0048

Source Caption: Historic American Buildings Survey, Nevada Department of Highways Photo SECOND & CARSON STS., SHORTLY AFTER ORIGINAL UNIT OF STATEHOUSE WAS BUILT

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