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Photograph of 1200 foot level, Belmont Mine in Tonopah (Nev.), 1911

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1911

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1200 ft. level, Belmont Mine, Tonopah, NV, 1911. There is an inscription on the back of the image: "The Tonopah Belmont Development Company was Tonopah's second most prosperous mining company, recording a production of $38,000,000. The Belmont mine was the company's principal working shaft and reached a depth of 1700 feet. The Belmont shaft was in use from 1909 until it was burned out by a fire of undetermined origin October 31, 1939." There is a date stamp: mid-year 1987.

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pho020545

Physical Identifier

0082_0030
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    pho020545. Central Nevada Historical Society Photograph Collection. PH-00082. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1c824k21.

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    Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

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    2873 x 2244 pixels
    4.79 x 3.74 inches
    19,349,504 bytes

    Language

    English

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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    image/tiff