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Photograph of Kennecott Copper Corporation machinery, McGill, Nevada, 1960-1961
Date
1960 to 1961
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white photograph of rotary car dumper that takes loaded ore cars and empties them.
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Map of underground workings in Potosi and Central Lodes, May 1906
Date
1906-05
Description
'Scale 20 ft = 1 in.'
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Photograph of Ward charcoal ovens, White Pine County, Nevada, 1960-1961
Date
1960 to 1961
Archival Collection
Description
The Ward charcoal ovens are one of many tourist attractions in White Pine County. These historic remnants of the old mining days in the West are located just outside of Ely.
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View of Cul-de-sac at Mt. Diablo Mine, Nevada: photographic print
Date
1967-06
Description
From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240). Office and superintendent's house (collapsed), taken from top of tailings dump near ruins of hoisting works building.
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Photograph of blister copper being poured at Kennecott Copper Corporation, McGill, Nevada, 1960-1961
Date
1960 to 1961
Archival Collection
Description
The end product, blister copper, is being poured from holding furnace into conveyor belt molds. Each bar weighs approximately 400 pounds and contains 99.4 percent copper.
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Film transparency of Olive Lake, Herbert Squires, and Charles P. Squires, Mount Charleston, Nevada, 1912
Date
1912
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white image of Olive Lake and two others, presumed to be Herbert Squires and his father, Charles P. Squires, at the Squires' mine at Mount Charleston near Las Vegas. Transcribed notes from Special Collections photo inventory: “Charleston 1912. Olive, Herbert, & Dad at his mine, 2 miles on up the Canyon.”
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Film transparency of Roy Mosback and Henry Lotts at Lucky Strike mine, Clark County, Nevada, circa early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white image of Roy Mosback and Henry Lotts at the "Lucky Strike" mine near Mount Charleston, per the handwritten description at the bottom of the image. Note: Image is from a family photo album that was loaned to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and returned to the family on July 17, 1984.
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Mims-Sutro Company Records
Identifier
MS-00222
Abstract
Collection contains the stock ledger from 1905 for the Mims-Sutro Company, a mining company based in Goldfield, Nevada.
Archival Collection
Bill Beam Papers
Identifier
MS-00531
Abstract
The Bill Beam Papers document the career of miner and poetry enthusiast Bill (William) Beam from 1955 to 2004. The papers contain mining materials, photographs, and poetry from mines Beam worked in around the Southwestern United States. Also included are two albums of photographs from the Nevada Test Site.
Archival Collection
Longitudinal section map, Montana Tonopah Mine, circa 1900s-1910s
Date
1900 to 1919
Description
'Longitudinal Section, Montana Tonopah Mine showing workings projected on east-west vertical plane.' In lower right corner: 'E.D. North E.M.' 'Photo-litho. Britton & Rey, S.F.'
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