Janet Manousos

Janet ManousosJanet Manousos uses a strong interest in her family's gold-mining past as inspiration for her mixed-media collages and black-and-white photography.

Found objects from the Virginia City, Nevada, dumps often appear in Janet's work, as do photos of her ancestors, book pages, recipes and letters from the past.

Many of her photos document the living quarters of Virginia City gold miners and their families. The dwellings, now in extreme decay, are protected by the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office.


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The artwork of Janet Manousos

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Back Porch
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Back Porch
No more weekend barbecues on the back porch of this old Virginia City, Nevada, house. Time has taken its toll on the historical structures of this old gold-mining town, and this house is no exception. Its porch looks like a Coney Island roller coaster, and its windows are covered with boards.
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Chicken Coop
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Chicken Coop
The chickens are gone, but the coop remains. It's hard to say what's holding up the coop. Like many buildings in Virginia City, Nevada, only the skeleton remains. But the coop once housed sustenance for the owners, bringing them an abundance of eggs and the main course.
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Gold Miner's Daughter
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Gold Miner's Daughter
Aunt Hazel was a gold miner's daughter. She was born and raised in Gold Hill, Nevada, until she married and moved to a ranch in another part of Nevada. Behind Hazel is a recipe for pasties, a meat pie that sustained the miners at lunchtime. Aunt Hazel baked many a pastie.
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Happy Trails
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Happy Trails
The artist is dressed in her childhood cowboy finery, complete with hat, vest, chaps and kerchief. In the background is a map of Virginia City, Nevada, a wild west town at the turn of the century, where her ancestors came from England to find gold. Cowboy spurs add an accent to the collage, and emblazoned in a gold band above a small piece of timber are the words, "Happy Trails."
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It's My Birthday
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It's My Birthday
The artist celebrates her birthday with a big smile and a party hat. The collage's background is a mixture of bright colors, the outline of a silver heart, and the alphabet, which bounces off the corner of the artwork.
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Les and Lucille's House
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Les and Lucille's House
Les and Lucille sled through the front door of their house on slick Virginia City, Nevada, snow. The nail, sewn onto the collage, is an antique square nail, used by the thousands to build the houses, shacks, coops, churches and schools in Nevada Gold Country.
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Lucille's Birthday
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Lucille's Birthday
The birth of Lucille brought a letter from relatives in England, welcoming the new child to a gold-mining family in Virginia City, Nevada. The letter forms the background for this collage, along with a leaf that is a Viginia City original, and a copper color that is paint mixed with real Virginia City dirt.
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Mine Dumps
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Mine Dumps
Two giant mounds of mine debris stand as monuments to what was the backbone of the Nevada high desert. Virginia City serves as the background. The dumps are the overburden and other waste materials from the gold mines.
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Miner's Shack
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Miner's Shack
This old shack provided a modest existence for gold miners in Virginia City, Nevada, at the turn of 20th Century. This shack sports a small addition in the rear, and an attic, no doubt once occupied by one or two men.
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Miner's Shack #2
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Miner's Shack #2
Most of its walls are gone, but the roof still stands on this on gold miner's shack in Virginia City, Nevada. Another shack is visible down the slope, and both are surrounded by sagebrush, the main flora of the high desert.
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