Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
A1044.4Description
Photo of the ruins of a two story hotel in the ghost town of Aurora, NV, 1936. Possibly the Esmeralda Hotel? There is a vehicle parked in front of it.
Information from Utah State University: Aurora, Nevada was a silver mining boom town founded in 1860. Aurora was in its heyday in the 1860s (Mark Twain briefly lived there), but it slowly declined after 1870. It went through a rebirth in 1912 when a new stamp mill and cyanide plant were built at the mines. In 1917, however, the mill closed down and by the early 1920s Aurora was abandoned.Collection
Della Dearborn Smith Collection