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Map of the Washoe District showing mining claims : Comstock mining and miners Plate III.

Description: Map shows mining claims by name, mine and shaft locations, flumes, roads, railroads, towns, businesses, ranches, and structures. Includes "explanation of lines." Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot heights. Vertical contours at 50 feet intervals. Scale [1:18,000].
Date: 1881
Creator: Becker, George F. (George Ferdinand),1847-1919
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Maps of Arizona and Utah]

Description: Map shows Native American reservations, military reservations, mining activity, mineral resources, railroads, counties, cities, towns, and notable geographical features. Includes notes, distances between towns on railroad routes, and population and area statistics. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,250,000] and [ca. 1:2,300,000].
Date: [1881..1891]
Creator: Cram, George Franklin, 1841-1928
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Topographical map of the Portage Lake Mining District.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Michigan land ownership, township grid, township boundaries, mineral resources and deposit locations, limit of the copper range, roads, railroads, canals, towns, and notable physical features. Includes "Internal references denoting ownership of lands." Scale [ca. 1:63,360].
Date: 1888
Creator: Emerson, L. G.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Granite for the Capitol]

Description: Photograph of people and horses gathered around a deposit of granite. The granite is cut into progressively smaller blocks from its original mass. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph says, "Granite Mountain about 1884. This mountain of granite supplied 50,000 tons of granite for the Texas State Capitol at Austin and about 450,000 tons to Galveston for the sea wall and jetties."
Date: 1884
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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