Caution! Taxes! Taxes!

[Virginia City, Nevada]: Brown & Mahanny, Printers, Corner of C and Taylor Streets, 1876. Single-sided letterpress broadside. 8 x 6 inches. Printed in multiple typefaces.

Condition: Good. Paper considerably toned; small chip to right edge; top edge slightly uneven. Text area clean and crisp.

⁂ From Virginia City at the peak of the Comstock era — a tax notice issued by C. B. Smith, Storey County Treasurer and ex-Officio Tax Receiver, directing property owners to pay their 1876 state and county taxes at the office on B Street, opposite Mooney's Stables, with J. H. Douglass serving as Deputy. Scarce; only one other example traced.