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Photograph of Ward charcoal ovens, White Pine County, Nevada, 1960-1961

Date

1960 to 1961

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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Evan and Kathy Thompson Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00042

Abstract

The Evan and Kathy Thompson Photograph Collection depicts Beatty, Nevada, Rhyolite, Nevada, and Keane Wonder Mine, California around 1925. The photographs include the Rhyolite Bottle House, mining operations in Rhyolite and Keane Wonder Mine, and citizens of Rhyolite.

Archival Collection

Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George

Date

1925-02 to 1925-03

Archival Collection

Description

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

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Photograph of blister copper being poured at Kennecott Copper Corporation, McGill, Nevada, 1960-1961

Date

1960 to 1961

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

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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Abandoned mill and equipment in Esmeralda County: photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1905 (year approximate)

Description

Black and white image of an abandoned mill & cyanide plant in Divide District, Esmeralda County, Nevada circa early 1900s.

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Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00305

Abstract

The Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection (approximately 1900-1935) is comprised of nine black-and-white photographic prints depicting railroads, locomotives, and mines in Tonopah, Nevada and Tecopa, California.

Archival Collection

Elmer J. Chute's map of U.S. patent and location surveys in the Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties (Nev.), 1907

Date

1907

Description

Scale [ca. 1:22,800. 1 in. to approx. 1900 feet] ; 1 map : col. ; 66 x 82 cm., folded to 18 x 9 cm ; Includes index Includes township and range grid ;

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Mining operation: photographic print

Date

1909 (year uncertain) to 1988 (year uncertain)

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 mining operation believed to be located somewhere in central Nevada, although the exact location and date are unknown. Possibly circa 1900s-1930s.

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