Title:
Mozart Club
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
Maurice Durand built the Mozart club in 1934 and promoted heavy weight boxing champion Jack Dempsey. "The Manassa Mauler".
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Title:
Goldfield, Nevada
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
GOLDFIELD, NEVADA Approximately 200 miles north of Las Vegas on the road to Reno. Once housed over 30,000 persons - now a few hundred persons live here. First claims staked in 1902 - biggest boom years between 1906 and 1910. Most buildings, including the Goldfield Hotel, are deserted.
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Title:
Goldfield Hotel
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
This famous hotel is located in the town section of the famous old mining camp. Built in 1907, it has 150 rooms. Still standing today and taking its place as one of many landmarks of the old ghost town.
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Title:
Goldfield, Nevada
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
Goldfield, discovered soon after the turn of the century, sent the nation mining mad. Tonopah's silver discovery came in 1900 while gold was discovered in 1903 to the south. Some ore ran as high as $1,500 to $4,000 per ton. The first strike was made by Harry Stimler and Bill Marsh who were doing little in Tonopah. The gaming spots were the best, but none was like the glamour spot of Tex Rickards that occupied the ground floor of the Goldfield Hotel. Brokerage houses, assay office and a stock exchange lined the streets. Rickard brought in Wyatt Earp as floor boss and dealer for his Northern. Death Valley Scotty ran an assay office that some said was a bliind to deal in high grade. The panic of 1907 was the first blow to hit the town.
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Title:
Goldfield Hotel - Lobby
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Divided Back unused
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Title:
Labor Day Drilling Contests
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Post Card (Undivided Back)
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Title:
Mule Train
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused
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Title:
Mohawk Mine
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Divided Back unused
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Title:
Mohawk Mine
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Divided Back
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Title:
Street Scene
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
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Title:
Goldfield Hotel
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome PM 1982 Nov
Description:
When the 150-room, $450,000 Goldfield Hotel opened in 1908, there were three days and nights of dancing and feasting. Here Goldfield's aristocracy mingled with visiting nabobs. The hotel closed in 1936 but briefly opened during World War II. About half of the rooms had private baths; most had brass beds and deep carpets. It is presently privately owned.
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Title:
Mozart Club
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
Maurice Durand built the Mozart club in 1934 and promoted heavy weight boxing champion Jack Dempsey, "The Manassa Mauler".
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Title:
The Famous Goldfield Hotel
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
Located in the town section of the famous old mining camp. Built in 1907, it has 150 rooms. Still standing today and taking its place as one of many landmarks of the old ghost town.
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Title:
Mohawk Mine
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Divided Back unused
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Title:
View of Goldfield
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
Approximately 200 miles north of Las Vegas on the road to Reno. Once housed over 30,000 persons - now a few hundred persons live here. First claims staked in 1902 - biggest boom years between 1906 and 1910. Most buildings, including the Goldfield Hotel, are deserted.
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Title:
Combination Mine
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1907 Jul-8
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Title:
Red Top Mine
Colofield Nevada (NV), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused
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Title:
History of Goldfield Nevada
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Real Photo PM 1955 Apr-20
Description:
Originally called 'Grandpa' when Billy Marsh and Harry Stimler staked out the first vlain in 1902, the name was soon changed when jewlery rock ran $50 to $100 per pound. One carload of 47 tons brought $574,958.00. There was another boom in 1906 when los sold as high as $45,000.00 Population reached 30,000. Mining production $11,000,000.00 in 1910. Goldfield's turbulent career saw the Gans-Nelson prize fight. Nat Goodwin. Edna Goodrich on the stage. Outrageous highgrading by miners with resulting strikes and disorders requiring troops and state police. Goldfield is said to have been 'the most exciting camp of all time'
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Title:
General View of Town
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Divided Back unused
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Title:
Mohawk Mine
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Divided Back unused
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Title:
Waldorf-Astoria, not New York
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Divided Back PM 1911 Dec-26
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Title:
Crossing The Desert To Goldfield
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1907 Mar-06
Description:
Series 124
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Title:
Goldfield Ghost Town Cemetery 1902
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
Hundreds of young men are buried here that worked in the Goldfield Mining District. They died of silicosis or ?Rock on the Box.? Razor sharp silica dust particles were breathed into their lungs. The lungs were cut to shreds and the victim drowned in his own blood. The town of Goldfield is in the midground
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Title:
Goldfield
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Continental Chrome unused
Description:
Esmeralda County, located halfway between Reno and Las Vegas, is the home to many mining communities and ghost towns. Surrounded by rugged mountain wilderness, vast open basins and rich mines. Esmeralda County offers a variety of spectacular scenery and a comfortable life-style.
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Title:
Frontier Photography
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08
Description:
The Goldfield Municipal High School is still in very good state of preservation. Its size bares witness to the size of the population
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Title:
Frontier Photography
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08
Description:
This Hippodrome Theatre was built to handle all types of entertainment. Many famous actors and actresses appeared here. A disastrous fire in 1923 leveled most of the business district
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Title:
Dj's Market
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08
Description:
The Oasis in the desert, Rustic on the outside and modern on the inside. Biggest little store in Goldfield! Groceries, liquor, beer and ice.
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Title:
Esmeralda County Courthouse
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
The greatest gold boom town of all time producing $150,000,000 in gold at the ten going price of $20 per ounce. Goldfield won the county seat from Hawthorne in 1907 and rightfully so. Goldfield had grown to became the largest city in Nevada with 20,000 residents.
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Title:
Frontier Photography
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08
Description:
Goldfield, Nevada 1907. It didn't take them long to build a railway because there were a lot of people and plenty of ore to haul. Wouldn't you love to own one of those antique automobiles now>?
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Title:
Goldfield Ghost Town 1902
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
Prospectors knew there was gold here in 1870 but they didn't think there was enough to bother with. In 1902 tow prospectors from Tonopah, Harry Stimler and Billy Marsh found enough gold to make a lot of people rush to Goldfield. The rush lasted until 1907 swelling Goldfield to 20,000 people, largest city in the state. In 1905 there were 10,000 people in Goldfield and only one bath tub in a barber shop! Most people in those early days took a bath once a year whether they needed it or not! There was still a considerable amount of mining and milling here up until 1940 when the 100 stamp consolidated mill shut down. The Florence mine is in the foreground. Goldfield is in the midground.
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Title:
The Mines Of Goldfield
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
The mines of Goldfield, Nevada, like that shown, now stand idle; but after the big strike of 1903, Goldfield was one of the most spectacular mining campus of the West. Its ore was so rich there was a serve problem of "high-grading" by miners who selected the best ore for their own pockets.
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Title:
Goldfield Ghost Town Cemetery 1902
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08
Description:
Hundreds of young men are buried here that worked in the Goldfield Mining District. They died of silicosis or "Rock on the Box." Razor sharp silica dust particles were breathed into their lungs. The lungs were cut to shreds and the victim drowned in his own blood. The town of Goldfield is in the midground.
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Title:
Goldfield Ghost Town Cemetery 1902
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08
Description:
Hundreds of young men are buried here that worked in the Goldfield Mining District. They died of silicosis or "Rock on the Box." Razor sharp silica dust particles were breathed into their lungs. The lungs were cut to shreds and the victim drowned in his own blood. The town of Goldfield is in the midground.
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Title:
Santa Fe Club
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Chrome unused
Description:
Joe and Carl Fuetch were proprietors of the Santa Fe during the 1920's. Carls son Joe Jr. went on to found Sierra Brewing Company of Reno, Nevada. Joe Fuetch was an Esmeralda County commissioner during the late 1930's. Joe is now busy operating the East Bay Tire Company on Oakland, California.
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Title:
Florence Mine
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1906 Mar-31
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Title:
The Jumbo
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1905 Jun-9
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Title:
Showing Ledges Of 80000 Dollars Per Tone Of Gold Ore, Mohawk Mine
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Divided Back PM 1908 Feb-24
Description:
Showing ledges of 80,000 dollars per tone of gold ore.
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Title:
General View Of Goldfield
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Divided Back unused
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Title:
Mohawk Mine
Goldfield Nevada (NV), Divided Back unused
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