[Nevada Photographica]:

$1,250 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

LOVELOCK, NEV. AUG 17th 1913. An early 20th-century panoramic photograph of the as-yet-unincorporated town of Lovelock, Nevada taken in August 1913. The image shows the sweep of the downtown area, with various businesses easily identifiable by their signs. These include "The Anchorage," Zunini and Faretto General Hardware, the Central Saloon, "The Ranch," German Beer Hall, the Northern Cafe, Bank Bar (serving Fredericksburg Beer), "The Grand," Owl Bar, Big Meadows Hotel (owned by town founder George Lovelock), a Levi Strauss store, and the Lovelock Mercantile Company. Train tracks and two train cars are at foreground left, which at the time was called Railway Street (now called West Broadway). A church steeple and numerous residences fill in the background, while the distant background shows the low-level mountains of the Tobin Range.Lovelock is located in west-central Nevada, in the vicinity of the old Humboldt Trail to California, and is now serviced by Interstate 80. The town was first formed when the Central Pacific Railroad built lines through the area in 1868. George Lovelock provided eighty-five acres for the railroad and built the depot that would also bear his name, along with the town that grew up around it. Lovelock was incorporated in 1917 and became the seat of Pershing County in 1919. Over the course of its history, Lovelock was a center for mining and agriculture, as well as a site known for gambling and prostitution, though all of the town's brothels are now c

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