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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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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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Photograph of Gold Reef Mining Company buildings and headframe, Tonopah, Nevada, circa July 1918
Date
1918-07
Archival Collection
Description
Two small buildings and a headframe owned by the Gold Reef Mining Company in the mountains of Tonopah, Nevada. The Tonopah Divide is identified in the back of the image. Ca. July 1918.
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Photograph of a man standing on a mining headframe, Gold Reef Mining Company, Tonopah, Nevada, July 7, 1918
Date
1918-07-07
Archival Collection
Description
A man standing on a headframe at the Gold Reef Mining Company in Tonopah, Nevada.
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Photograph of a man standing near the Gold Reef Minining Company operations, Tonopah, Nevada, circa July 1918
Date
1918-07
Archival Collection
Description
A unidentified man standing in front of three small buildings and a headframe belonging to the Gold Reef Mining Company in the mountains ofTonopah, Nevada.
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Man and an abandoned gallows frame: photographic print
Date
1909 (year uncertain) to 1988 (year uncertain)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.C. Lofthouse-Berg Families (Round Mountain). View of a man and an abandoned gallows frame, located in central Nevada. Exact date and location are unknown. Possibly 1900s-1940s.
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