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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 5, 2022
Caption: Virginia City in the 1940s - a New Beginning Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (upper left) Lower Wallace Street - Virginia City 1944; (middle row, left to right) Today's careful observer will recognize these very same buildings along Wallace Street. Parch and Saubier Blacksmith Shops - 1944; Smith & Boyd Livery Stable (future VC Opera House) - 1944; Hangman's Building - 1952 (with a young John Ellingsen, Bovey's future curator, and his aunt shown); (bottom right) Tourism season on lower Wallace Street - Virginia City, early 1950s.
Submitted: October 26, 2022, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p685702
File Size: 3.362 Megabytes

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