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Photograph of Harold and Geraldine Stocker with others, Overton (Nev.), approximately 1900-1950

Date

1900 to 1950

Description

Group poses outdoors on dirt path at the "Silica mine" in Overton. Identified from left to right: "Harold, Geraldine, mother, with two unidentified persons."

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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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Mine entrance with rock face, image 001 of 002: photographic film

Date

1878 to 1954

Description

Entrance to a mine, location unknown. A rock sits at the entrance that looks like the profile of a face on the left.

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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 gold bullion bars, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1920

Date

1900 to 1920

Description

Nineteen gold bullion bars are stacked atop one another for a photo. Inscription below reads: "Nineteen gold bullion bars having a value of more than $450,000 and taken from one of the Goldfield mines in its boom days are enough to excite anyone. These were the genuine article. Even to Goldfielders they created a sensation. It is every prospector's dream."

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Photograph of Ed Von Tobel, Sr. exploring a mining claim, Las Vegas Region, circa 1900s

Date

1900 to 1909

Description

Ed Von Tobel, Sr. and (possibly) Tony Felix on an exploring trip for mining claims in mountains surrounding Las Vegas. Physical object has an insert containing additional biographical information.

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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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