Historic Photos of Reno
Language: English
Published by Turner Publishing, Nashville, TN, 2008
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- Hardcover
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a photographic journey through history for Reno, NV. cloth, lettering on spine, sharp corners, DJ wrapped in mylar, signed half title page, 205 pages, notes on photographs back of book, 10.25" x 10.25" first edition as indicated by the number line.
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- Title
- Historic Photos of Reno
- Author
- Curtis, Donnelyn
- Publisher
- Turner Publishing, Nashville, TN
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- near fine
- Dust jacket
- near fine
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1596524383
- ISBN 13
- 9781596524385
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 3 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- History, Nevada
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Review
I received a copy of a new coffee table-sized book on Reno titled Historic Photos of Reno, published by Turner Publishing Company. The author, Donnelyn Curtis, is a librarian with the University of Nevada, Reno, and Director of Research Collections & Services and Head of Special Collections there. Her pictures and commentary cover the first century or so of Reno from around 1868 to the end of the 1970s. I not only read the book and looked at the outstanding pictures culled from the university archives and other collections, I also shared the book with my landlord who has lived in Reno since 1947. We spent several hours browsing the book and reading the captions, and we both came to the conclusion this is the best pictorial volume about Reno we have seen. Curtis took great care in selecting the photographs, all of them black and white, covering many aspects of Reno's history...I can't recommend this book enough for those who are interested in local history as I am. --snunes.blogspot.com, Susan N.
It's a wonderful book for anyone interested in the history of Reno and surrounding areas such as the Sierra and Virginia City...The first one in the first section is really interesting a train of freight wagons traveling down a snowy hill on Donner Pass about 1896. One of the earliest views of Reno shows Myron Lake's hotel and the first (steel) bridge across the Truckee about 1883. The foreground is vacant land. Some of the others that caught my eye were bridges under construction and aerial photos. A photo that surprised me was one of a shantytown on the Truckee River in 1944. Another thing that surprised me was how city-like downtown Reno looked in the 1940s biggest little city might have been the perfect slogan. And I always love to look at old photos of the university because it has preserved most of its buildings; it's easy to compare its past with its present. --Ann on Everything, blog.annonn.com
The Biggest Little City has come a long way since its days as a tiny settlement at Lake's Crossing on the Truckee River. Follow the city through its early years of loose gambling regulations, prize fighting, and easy divorce to its emergence as a tourist destination and urban center. --Nevada Magazine
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