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A brief description of the Washoe smelter

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    Smelter Returns

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    Items listed in the following format: [Smelter returns sent by]. [Processing company]. [Date]. [Location]

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    Washoe

    Visual Materials

    Mostly in Nevada. Includes portraits, scenes of gambling; women applying pitch to woven water bottles; baskets; dwellings and families. Also photographs of drawings of Washoe life and legends, animals and birds by an unknown artist. People identified: Washoe basket weaver Sarah Mayo showing her baskets in a field on the Dressler Ranch, Carson Valley, Nevada, ca. 1914; Pete Mayo; Richard E. Barrington; Lizzie May. Photographers: Terkelson & Henry, San Francisco; unidentified.

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    American Smelting & Refining Company. Tacoma Smelter records

    Manuscripts

    There are 46 8"x10" black and white photographs (three are duplicates) of the expansion of the plant and the construction of the smokestack. All of the photos but two are identified and date between1915 to 1917. The retention copies primarily consist of correspondence between H.Y. Walter, who was the manager of the Tacoma plant, and Edgar L. Newhouse, Jr., who was a mining magnate in Salt Lake City, Utah. The subject matter concerns business operations including negotiating rates and offering quotes to the White Caps Mining Company. The dates of the correspondence range from 1907 to 1928 (bulk 1919-1923).

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    The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and mining reports), photographs and maps related to the career of mining engineer Charles Janin. Subject matter in the collection focuses on minerals, mines and mining, especially in California, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Russia (including Siberia), and Central and South America. There is information about gold, silver, platinum, and tin mining as well as gold dredging.

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    A trip to Washoe

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