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Photograph of workers piling sacks of ore from the Jumbo Mine, Goldfield (Nev.), early 1900s
Archival Collection
Description
Caption: Jumbo Ore
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Photograph of construction at the Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company, Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1907-1908
Date
1907 to 1908
Archival Collection
Description
The Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company under construction in Goldfield, Nevada. The structures and surrounding area are covered with snow. The mining company was formed in 1907 and the mill was constructed late in the year and began processing ore in early 1908. The company was formed by George Nixon and George Wingfield. The mill continued running until 1918 when the company ceased operation.
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Postcard of scenes in central Nevada, circa 1927-1930s
Date
1927 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard with photographs with the captions "Badger hole;" "Electric Gold Mines, Weepah, Nevada;" "Crowd looking at rich strike;" "Town of Weepah, Nevada where rich gold strike was made;" "Frank Horton, Geo. Wingfield;" "The rich strike;" "Traynor and Horton, boys who found the gold." Leonard Traynor and Frank Horton, Jr., found gold ore in Weepah, Nevada in early spring 1927; George Wingfield was a prominent banker and miner in Nevada in the early decades of the twentieth century. The "badger hole" was where Traynor and Horton reportedly made their first gold strike.
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Postcard of the New Florence Mill, Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1909
Date
1909 to 1910
Archival Collection
Description
Postcard postmaked November 10, 1909 showing buildings and headframes at the New Florence Mill in Goldfield, Nevada.
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Photograph of the Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company, Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1908
Date
1908 to 1909
Archival Collection
Description
View of the Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company, Goldfield, Nevada.
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Goldfield Book of Miniatures
Date
1903
Description
Fold out booklet with miniature photographs of scenes of life in and around Goldfield Nevada. "Devised and made by Tom Jones, publisher of scenic souvenirs, Cincinnati, O."
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Looking north at the gallows frame of the old Orazaba Mine in Nevada: photographic print
Date
1977
Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.B. Coombs Family. Note the old steam boiler on the right.
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Newspaper, The Tonopah Miner, January 2, 1904
Date
1904-01-02
Description
History of findings at Tonopah and early growth of town and mines, Jim Butler, T.L. Oddie, Wilse Brougher.
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Postcard of the Mohawk Mine, Goldfield (Nev.), 1907
Date
1907
Archival Collection
Description
Caption: The Great Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Nev.
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The Mohawk Lodge Mine: photographic print
Date
1907 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
The Mohawk Lodge Mine.
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