Manuscripts
KIRCHHOFF & SPECHT (firm). Profile Map of the Sutro Tunnel, Virginia City, Nevada
- Description
- 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.
- Date
- 1869-1877,
- Call number
- mssJaninc
- Provenance
- Louis Janin, Henry Janin, and Elizabeth Janin Evans, December 1958.
- Elizabeth Janin Evans, April 1984 and June 1996.
- Associated people
- Hearst, William Randolph, (1863-1951.)
