MASSIVE FRASHER Salesman Sample Photo Album Postcards RPPCS NEVADA Ca 1920s-30s

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MASSIVE FRASHER Salesman Sample Photo Album Postcards RPPCS NEVADA Ca 1920s-30s:
$6000.00

Massive Sample Album with Hundreds of Real Photo Postcards of Nevada and Eastern California by Burton Frasher
283 real photo-postcards (including some duplicates); Each 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches; with caption and Frasher's credit in negative and manuscript inventory number print recto; Album cover embossed with Frasher's printed credit.
The Nevada portion of the album consists of scores of compelling images showing main streets, hotels, saloons, restaurants, gambling parlors, mining operations, desert landscapes and more in places such as as Reno, Virginia City, Goldfield, Tonopah, Rhyolite, Gold Hill, Carson City, Mina, Beatty, Silver City, Hawthorne, Gardnerville, and elsewhere.
There are a handful of views of the old Chinatown in Carson City, including a pair of portraits of Yee Bong, shown posed in front of his eponymous cafe. Born in Virginia City, Yee Bong worked as a cook in Comstock and Lake Tahoe before opening his restaurant in the 1870s. At that time, there were over two thousand Chinatown residents but when the photo was taken, around 1935, that number had dwindled to only a few dozen.
Other interesting portraits include images of a Paiute woman weaving baskets in Reno and pictures of “Old Virginia,” one of Frasher’s “wanderers of the desert,” posed with his equine “pals.”
On the California side, there are also many views of Death Valley Scotty and his eponymous castle (which he never actually owned, nor is it actually a castle). A colorful Death Valley colorful character, Walter E. Scott was a gold prospector and con man who made a living through various schemes, mostly involving fictitious mines (or the pilfering of actual gold).
The album is in good overall condition, with some wear to the binding due to the large number of photos included. Photos themselves are in uniformly excellent condition.
There are 167 photos of Nevada, 62 photos of Death Valley, and 54 others with some duplication my other listings for more vintage photographs etc.
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