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Photograph of desert landscape and people, Goldfield (Nev.), December 1903.

Date

1903-12

Description

First picture taken in Goldfield, December, 1903. Harrie Taylor (discoverer). Lew Finnegan and John Y. McKane on the Jumbo, from which was taken $100,000 in 47 feet surface, the strike that caused the first rush.

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Photograph of men in the desert, Chloride, Arizona, circa 1910

Date

1910

Description

Men gather around a table in the mountains in Chloride, Arizona.

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Photograph of miner using equipment, Sheep Mountain Range, 1931

Date

1931

Description

Miner uses equipment to collect mineral deposits inside a mine shaft in the Sheep Mountains.

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Correspondence, Thomas Toland to Sadie George

Date

1917-05-19

Archival Collection

Description

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

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Mining prospect hole: photographic print

Date

1994-05-07

Description

Wahmonie, NV. Prospect hole. Typewritten on photo sleeve: "PROSPECT HOLE. The fortune-hunters left their mark on the Wahmonie Mining District. Here is one view from the inside of a miner's prospect hole. These Wahmonie photographs were taken by Dick Borden and first published in the NTS News in the 1960s. Borden gave us a valuable photographic history of the NTS." [Caption in N[evada] T[est] S[ite] News Bulletin August 21, 1981 p. 8]

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Photograph of "Old Dinah" Borax Smith Outfit, Death Valley (Calif.), 1920-1935

Date

1920 to 1935

Archival Collection

Description

A handwritten inscription on the front of the image reads: "'Old Dinah,' Borax Smith outfit at Furnace Creek Camp, Death Valley, California."

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Photograph of New Ruth, 1960-1961

Date

1960 to 1961

Description

White Pine County's newest town, New Ruth, where most of the houses shown in this picture were moved by Kennecott Copper Corporation, a distance of over two miles to a new location to escape caving action which would have resulted from the Deep Ruth Mine operations. The homes are employee-owned.

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Photograph of workers moving mining machines, (Mex.), May 1911

Date

1911-05

Description

Workers use cattle, horses, and covered wagons to haul mining machinery to the mines. Taken by Henry M. Corliss.

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Photograph of miner's monument, Kingman Wash (Ariz.), circa 1932

Date

1931 to 1933

Description

Miner's monument for Joseph Herber Richards at Kingman Wash. He died June 18, 1917 and had previously owned the mine at Sheep Mountain. Note reads: "He died in Kingman Wash, 300 yards from Colorado River. His miners pick is imbedded in the cement." - W. A. Davis, April 1992.

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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George

Date

1911-01-31

Archival Collection

Description

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

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