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Postcard showing Searchlight, Nevada, circa 1930s
Date
1930 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
The view of Duplex Mine in Searchlight, Nevada. Founded in 1897, Searchlight is an old boomtown that was made popular when George Frederick Colton discovered gold at the location where the town is now built. At the Duplex mine discovered in 1898, a windowed building lies to to left of some machinery used for mining. Transcribed across the bottom of the image: "Duplex Mine, Searchlight, Nev. Original Discovery 1898." The Frasher's Foto logo is printed on the bottom right corner.
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Photograph of Lucky Strike Mine, Nevada, circa early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Lucky Strike Mine on Potosi Mountain in Nevada.
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Photograph of Columbia Junction, Round Mountain, Nevada, circa early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A mine and railroad tracks near Columbia Junction at Round Mountain, Nevada.
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Photograph of silver bricks, Tonopah, Nevada, circa early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
Stacks of silver bricks on the depot platform in Tonopah, Nevada.
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Film transparency of buildings at mines in Kingman, Arizona, circa late 1940s
Date
1945 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
An image of buildings next to mines in Kingman.
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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.
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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.
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Photograph of a man on a large structure, circa early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1930
Archival Collection
Description
An unidentified man standing on a beam of a large piece of mining equipment in the southwest, possibly Nevada or Arizona.
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Photograph of a mine, circa early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1930
Archival Collection
Description
An unidentified mine and buildings in the southwest, possibly Nevada or Arizona.
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