Abstract
The William Hillman Shockley Photograph Collection (1875-1925, 1951) contains black-and-white photographs documenting mining operations at the Mount Diablo Mine and Millworks in Candelaria, Nevada. It also includes photographs of nearby operations including the Northern Belle Mine and the Princess Mill. The collection contains photographs of Shockley, his son, William Bradford Shockley, as an infant, as well as images of Shockley’s brothers, Walter A. Shockley and George Shockley.
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The William Hillman Shockley Photograph Collection (1875-1925, 1951) contains black-and-white photographs documenting mining operations at the Mount Diablo Mine and Millworks in Candelaria, Nevada. It also includes photographs of nearby operations including the Northern Belle Mine and the Princess Mill. The collection contains photographs of Shockley, his son, William Bradford Shockley, as an infant, as well as images of Shockley’s brothers, Walter A. Shockley and George Shockley. The collection documents the infrastructure and community built to support mining in Nevada.
Access Note
Collection is open for research. Some collection material has been digitized and is available online.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Arrangement
Materials remain as they were received.
Biographical / Historical Note
William Hillman Shockley was born on September 18, 1855 in New Bedford, Massachusetts to William, a whaling captain, and Sarah Shockley. He had two younger brothers, George and Walter. Shockley graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1875. He worked for a time in Florida and California before moving to Nevada.
Shockley worked at the Mount Diablo Mine and Millworks from 1880 to 1893 in Candelaria, Nevada, holding several positions at the mine including general manager. When the silver market collapsed in 1893, Shockley left Nevada.
In 1895, Shockley moved to Europe. Shockley went to China in 1897 in order to establish mining concessions for British businessmen, helping set up the Pekin Syndicate of London.
In 1905, Shockley returned to Nevada and moved to Tonopah. In January 1908, he married May Bradford. The couple had one son, William Bradford Shockley, in 1910. The family lived in London before settling in Palo Alto and, later, Los Angeles, California. In addition to his mining career, Shockley was an avid photographer and botanist. He died in Los Angeles, California on May 26, 1925.
Preferred Citation
William Hillman Shockley Photograph Collection, 1875-1925, 1951. PH-00241. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 1979 by Nan Doughty; accession number 1979-273.
Processing Note
Material was processed by Special Collections staff. In 2019, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Angela Moor revised the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards, wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.