Copyright: 95.1P.548 Shell Creek Stage Station, NV, 1959
Name/Title
Shell Creek Stage Station Site & Fort Shellbourne Ruin Photo, 1959
Entry/Object ID
P1995.1P.548
Description
Shell Creek Stage Station Site & Fort Shellbourne Ruin Photo, 1959. Six photos of the Schell Creek Stage Station and the ruins of Fort Schellbourne nearby. b/w
95.1P.548 = View of Stage building, brick structure with shingled roof, glass-paned windows, 3 entrances. Walls now supported with beams. on back: Shell Creek Station (stage). Nev. 5-59"
95.1P.549 = Woman in western hat with hand on door of stage station. Closer view of the building's construction. on back "Shell Creek Station (Stage). Nev. 5-59" On back: "Fort Schellbourne" Wells Fargo Bank Bldg at Schellbourne Ranch in Nev. Shell Creek Pony Express Sta. was near."
95.1P.550 = Rock wall ruins of building with impressive entrance. Situated along corral with wooden fence. woman in road in front of building. Legend: View eastward along main street of Schellbourne toward Schell Creek Range. Old Wells-Fargo bank building at left.. Nev. 5/59"
95.1P.551 = Woman in corner of rock wall ruin of interior of stage station. Close view of wall construction. on back: "Interior of Fort Shellbourne Ruin." Legend: "Interior of the Wells-Fargo Bank Building at Schellbourne."
95.1P.552 = Interior of log cabin blacksmith shop at Shellbourne, view of bellows. (See 75.2.58 for 1962 view of same.) Legend: "Interior of same building showing remains of a blacksmith shop. Note forge and old bellows. Also anvil block in foreground. At time this picture was taken the building had for many years been used as a cattle shed and for many years before that as a blacksmith shop. (Nev. 1959)
95.1P.834 = Close up photo of front of Wells Fargo Bank ruin with its impressive iron doors in the ghost town of Schellbourne, NV. Woman standing by door in western attire. Legend : "Iron doors in the front of the old Wells-Fargo Bank Building at the ghost town of Schellbourne, Nev. 1959"
old digital file name:
NVShellCreekSta
NVShellCreekSta2
NVShellCreekSta3
NVShellCreekSta5
Made/Created
Artist
Reynolds, Don
Date made
1959
Place
State/Province
Nevada
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Photographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Pony express, Blacksmiths
Search Terms
Pony Express Station, Shell Creek Pony Express Station, Wells Fargo Bank
