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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 the Combination Mine, Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1900s
Date
1900 to 1909
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard of the Combination Mine in Goldfield, Nevada.
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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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Photograph of an unidentified mining operation, probably in Nevada, circa 1900s
Date
1900 to 1909
Archival Collection
Description
Buildings, headframes, railroad tracks in the desert at an unidentified mine, probably in Nevada.
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Photograph of Quartette Mine, Searchlight, Nevada, circa early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1910
Archival Collection
Description
Description provided with image: "Head works, Quartette Mine, Searchlight, Nevada."
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Photograph of Searchlight Mine, Searchlight, Nevada, circa 1900s-1910s
Date
1900 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
Buildings and a headframe at Searchlight Mine, Searchlight, Nevada. Caption on photograph: "The original Searchlight Mine."
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Postcard of people at the Florence Mine, Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1900s
Date
1900 to 1909
Archival Collection
Description
Color postcard of several people posing by sacks or ore outside of the Florence Mine in Goldfield, Nevada.
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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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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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