145 years ago, on October 31, 1864, Nevada became the 36th U.S. state.
Cultural heritage institutions of Nevada state contributed 14 digital collections to the Opening History aggregation:
Early Las Vegas collection,
Great Basin History of Medicine Photo Archives collection,
Historic Aerial Photos of Early Nevada collection,
Images of Lake Tahoe collection,
Just Passin’ Through: The Lincoln and Victory Highways in Nevada collection,
Nevada Agricultural Publications collection,
Nevada in Maps collection,
Nevada Test Site Oral History Project collection,
Sagebrush Vernacular: Architecture of Rural Nevada collection,
Showgirls Collection,
Southern Nevada and Las Vegas History in Maps collection,
Special Collections Photograph Collections, University of Nevada at Reno, and
University of Nevada, Reno, Campus Images collection.
This photograph, created in ca. 1865, courtesy of Images of Lake Tahoe collection, shows Swift’s Station, Carson and Lake Bigler Road, eastern summit of Sierra Nevada Mountains, in the region of Lake Tahoe. This lake is the largest alpine freshwater lake in North America, located in the Sierra Nevada mountains, along the border between Nevada and California, west of Carson City, Nevada.
Swift's Station, Carson and Lake Bigler Road, eastern summit of Sierra Nevada Mountains
Sowing Culture 