Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: Map of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe Mining Claims in Storey and Lyon Counties, Nevada compiled from official surveys and other reliable data by T.D. Parkinson, C.E.

Barcode: 54599

Image Number: 54599.0001

Creator: Brown, Grafton Tyler, 1841-1918Parkinson, Thomas D., 1835-1906

Publishing Location: San Francisco

Alternative Title: Comstock Lode and the Washoe Mining Claims in Storey and Lyon Counties, Nevada

Brief Description: Thomas D. Parkinson (1835-1906) was an American civil engineer and businessman who worked in Nevada and San Francisco at various times in his life. In 1880 he was appointed Humboldt County, California Surveyor. Later he was manager of the Nevada Land and Cattle Company in 1888 but resigned two years later accused of mismanagement and then returned to the Bay Area. Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) was an African-American painter, lithographer, viewmaker and cartographer active in California and the Pacific Northwest. Born in Pennsylvania, he was the son of a freedman who was involved in the abolitionist movement. He studied printing in Philadelphia at 14 and mastered lithography in later years. After working with the National Geological Survey and moving several times he settled in Saint Paul, Minnesota working for the United States Army Corps of Engineers as well as a draughtsman for the city. He remained there until his death in 1918. The map was compiled by Parkinson and Brown highlighting and outlining in several colors the individual mining claims of the Comstock Lode. This was the largest silver discovery named after the miner Henry Comstock who discovered the mine in 1857. Inset is the longitudinal section of the Comstock Lode.

Date/Date Range Published: 1875

Language: English

Region Depicted: Comstock Lode, Nevada

Map Type: GeographicalHistorical maps

Dimensions: 57 x 73 cm

Printing Process: Lithograph

Historical Context: The Comstock Lode was a massive silver discovery under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson in the Virginia Range in Nevada in 1857.

LC Call Number: TN 413.N25 1875 P3

OCLC: 1239743340

Accession Number: OML-1875-82

Subjects: Mining engineering

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