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Fantastic Photos of Nevada from between the 1930s and '40s through an American Traveler's Lens

Fantastic Photos of Nevada from between the 1930s and '40s through an American Traveler's Lens

The Nevada Photo Service was a Reno company founded by Lawrence Engel (ca. 1872 – 1953) in 1925. Between the late 1920s and his death in 1953, Engel made three trips a year, circumnavigating the state and taking photographs he produced at postcards.

Though postcards are often dismissed as ephemeral, nobody documented Nevada so thoroughly as Engel, and this at a time when the state was undergoing a transformation from frontier backwater (in the opinion of many easterners) to a modern society.

This album is arranged in a rough itinerary following a journey Engel may have taken, leaving Reno and heading out towards Wendover before turning around and taking back to Reno.
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Fantastic Photos of Nevada from between the 1930s and '40s through an American Traveler's Lens
Fantastic Photos of Nevada from between the 1930s and '40s through an American Traveler's Lens<br /> <br /> The Nevada Photo Service was a Reno company founded by Lawrence Engel (ca. 1872 – 1953) in 1925. Between the late 1920s and his death in 1953, Engel made three trips a year, circumnavigating the state and taking photographs he produced at postcards.<br /> <br /> Though postcards are often dismissed as ephemeral, nobody documented Nevada so thoroughly as Engel, and this at a time when the state was undergoing a transformation from frontier backwater (in the opinion of many easterners) to a modern society.<br /> <br /> This album is arranged in a rough itinerary following a journey Engel may have taken, leaving Reno and heading out towards Wendover before turning around and taking back to Reno.<br /> ©One Man's Treasure/Exclusivepix Media