Governor Balzar

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Nevada Governor Fred B. Balzar poses in front of the Virginia Evening Chronicle building at 35 C Street in Virginia City. The Governor died the next year, and the building has been demolished.

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Source: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections

Source URL: https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz002cwx4d

Source Caption: Nevada Governor Fred B. Balzar stands outside the Virginia City Evening Chronicle office. He wears a hat and three piece suit.
This photograph appears in "'Land of Forty-Nine' Coming to Life Again," Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec 1933: F1.
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Typed on negative: Gov. Balzar, Ne[illegible] Virginia City
Text on windows: 35. CHRONICLE OFFICE. EVENIN[G] CHRONIC[LE]
Text accompanying photograph in article: Governor Balzar in front of Mark Twain's printing office.
Handwritten on negative sleeve: Nevada??? Gov. Carson City?

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