Visual Materials
Kern County, California, mining photographs
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- Description
- A collection of photographs of mines, miners, and the landscape around the Cove mining district, near Kernville in Kern County, California, especially the Big Blue, Commonwealth, Content, Lady Belle, Red Hill, and Sumner mines and hills, and the surrounding area. Photographs depict the mines and show tunnels, shafts, workers, surveying equipment, camps, and machinery. Other photographs show the countryside and the Kern River, particularly the thirty-four 9.5 x 30 cm panoramas. One panorama shows the intake of the Kern River Company Power Plant and others have captions identifying sites related to the Edison Company. Some of the panoramas have handwritten captions on their versos referencing the "donkey shaft." A small group of photographs near the beginning of the group show family scenes, with two boys, a pair of dogs, and some women, as well as two men standing with a rifles and a dead brown bear. The three largest photographs (20 x 25 cm) are enlargements of some of the smaller images. The first sheet has three illustrations, one of a horse fair, one of a dog, and one of a tree-lined road, copyright 1906 by the Horace K. Turner Company.
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