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Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to Frank Crampton, March 8, 1957

Date

1957-03-08

Archival Collection

Description

C.A. Earle Rinker's reminiscences of mining and assaying life in Goldfield, Nevada, in the first decade of the 1900s. He recalls two different shootings, drilling contests, water use by the local hotels and a 1907 influenza epidemic.

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William Hillman Shockley Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00241

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.

Archival Collection

Photograph of Littells and William Shockley with carriage, Candelaria (Nev.), 1891

Date

1891

Description

l-r W. A. Littell, W.H. Shockley, Mrs. Littell, unidentified man, road to left to mill

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