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Photograph of miners at the Mexican Mine in Virginia City, Nevada, circa 1900s
Date
1900 to 1909
Archival Collection
Description
A group of miners pose outside of a building at the Mexican Mine in Virginia City, Nevada.
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Photograph of a square set stope in Mohawk Mine at Goldfield (Nev.), 1907
Date
1907
Archival Collection
Description
Square set stope, Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Nevada, 1907. There is an inscription on the back of the image "Rich Ore is being hand sorted and shipped. The deputy is watching for highgrading." There is date stamp July 1978.
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Photograph of ancient salt miners, early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1920
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from photograph, "Southern Paiute - 3. Southern Nevada's ancient salt miners at work in Salt Cave. Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, Bureau of American Ethnology Collection." The items pictured in the photo are labeled.
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Photograph of a miner holding a baby burro, Las Vegas (Nev.), early 1900s
Date
1905 to 1910
Archival Collection
Description
Unidentified miner holding a baby burro.
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Photograph of miners and burros, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1910s
Date
1910 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white photograph a miner in a covered wagon pulled by burros. Sunrise Mountain can be seen in the background.
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Photograph of C. D. Baker at a mining claim, 1920s-1930s
Date
1920 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
C.D. Baker standing at a mining claim. This photograph may have been taken in Nevada.
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Photograph of a person in a mine, early 1900s
Date
1920 to 1940
Description
An individual poses in front of a mine in a desert. This photograph wad most likely taken somewhere in Nevada.
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Photograph of miners in Tonopah (Nev.), circa 1938
Date
1937 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A group of miners in Tonopah, Nevada. From left to right, the men are identified as: 1) unidentified; 2) Ed Slavin; 3) Blair Meldrum; 4) Frank LeFevre; 5) David Dunsdon; 6) Kendall; 7) Mitch Vuich; 8) Nick Banovich; and 9) unidentified. The seated man is also unidentified.
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Photograph of Yellow Pine train, Nevada, circa 1915-1930
Date
1915 to 1930
Archival Collection
Description
Yellow Pine train at mine with ore cars/Shay engine and what appears to be homemade water car between Shay and ore cars.
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Photograph of Yellow Pine Shay, Goodsprings, Nevada, circa 1915-1930
Date
1915 to 1930
Archival Collection
Description
Yellow Pine Shay No. 2 with loaded ore cars in Goodsprings.
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