Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 711 - 720 of 787

Film transparency of postcard showing a boat transporting gold ore on Lake Mead, circa late 1930s

Date

1935 to 1939

Archival Collection

Description

An image of a mining building and a boat on Lake Mead. Gold ore claims were made near the northern shores of Lake Mead in the late 1930s, after the completion of Hoover Dam. Shipments of ore were towed down Lake Mead by barge for railroad transport. Text on bottom of image reads: "First load of gold ore to be transported on Boulder Lake by barge." Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Film transparency of a postcard showing a boat transporting gold ore on Lake Mead, circa late 1930s

Date

1935 to 1939

Archival Collection

Description

An image of a mining building and a boat on Lake Mead. Gold ore claims were made near the northern shores of Lake Mead in the late 1930s, after the completion of Hoover Dam. Shipments of ore were towed down Lake Mead by barge for railroad transport. Text on bottom of image reads: "First load of gold ore to be transported on Boulder Lake by barge." Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Poster of the cover of Sunset magazine, May 1903

Date

1903-05

Description

Poster of the cover of Sunset magazine, May 1903

Image

Information on the composition of magnesite

Date

1874 to 1944

Archival Collection

Description

This folder is from "Maps and Assorted Documents" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

Text

Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Willard George

Date

1940-05-20

Archival Collection

Description

This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

Text

Photograph of Roofed Hills and the road to the mines, Eldorado Canyon (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: El Dorado Canyon, looking approximately westward. (the Roofed Hills) (Road to the mines)

Image

Photograph of miners inside the Techatticup Mine (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: (John Hughes) In one of the S.W.M. Co. mines, probably the Techatecup

Image

Photograph of a mine dump, Eldorado Canyon (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: (probably) Leof M. Waterhouse left/ Wm S. Mills, right Mills N. Waterhouse, Mine Dump

Image

Photograph of a covered wagon on a dirt road, Eldorado Canyon (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Caption: The rig grandpa used between the mines and the mill settlement.

Image

Map of the Pioche mines, Ely Mining District, Lincoln County (Nev.), 1909

Date

1909

Description

Scale unreadable ; 1 map ; 42 x 40 cm ; Photocopy. [United States ; s.n., 198-?] ; Includes township and range grid ; Includes wagon roads ;

Image