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Magalia Mine photographs

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Description: A collection of 33 card photographs chiefly of the Magalia Mine in Butte County, California, showing workers, equipment and works, and scenic views of the vicinity. Includes a photograph of a miner standing in a mine, a group portrait of a mining crew, which is dated December 1895, a photograph of Kerr and Rushing's Southside Hotel in Albion, California, and four panoramic views. Also includes a reproduction of sketches by Ed Smith of the North and South Forks, Clearwater, Salmon River, and the Snake and Seven Devils Mountain made for the Chicago World Fair in 1893. The four panoramas, 9 x 30.5 cm (3.5 x 12 inch), depict a building next to a river; a mule team pulling a piece of machinery; cows and horses in a field; and a reservoir with mining cart bridge behind. Most of the photographs are unattributed, but two contain the imprints of Oroville, California, photographers: I. H. Hogan and Phares.
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Production date: approximately 1890s
Call number: photCL 147
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Album of photographs of Nippeno and other Western mines

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An album with 99 snapshots consisting mainly of views of the desert mining town of Nippeno (now known as Nipton), California, and the Nippeno Mine in Lincoln County, Nevada (now in Clark County), as well as views of Crescent, Nevada; Manvel (?), California; and Vanderbilt, California. Views of Nippeno include workers and informal camp life scenes, various mine camp buildings including a cabin identified as the first building on the site and as having been erected by G. D. Halfpenny of the Nippeno Mining Company, water tunnels, mine shafts, freight train arrivals, horses, mules, and a baby mule. There are several photographs of "Expert Hunter" inspecting shafts and tunnels at the Nippeno Mine. Views of Vanderbilt include a photograph of William A. McFarlane and of his general store and restaurant. Views of Crescent include a photograph labeled "Win Sherman - "By Gad" - one of the pioneers" (likely of Winslow Sherman, an early settler and miner). There is one image of an automobile.

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Anaconda Copper Mine photographs

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A collection of 45 large-format photographs of the upper and lower works of the Anaconda Copper Mine near Anaconda, Montana, documenting machinery, buildings, workers, and processes. There are numerous views of machines used throughout the process of refining the minerals, including boiler rooms, round tables, steam stamps, furnaces, jigs, engine rooms, grinders, and crushers, as well as some photographs showing electric lights. There are no views of the mine itself, only interior and exterior views of the associated plants, railroad tracks, and company houses. One photograph includes railroad cars and a locomotive of the Montana Union Railroad.

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Letchworth family photograph collection

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This collection consists of pages of a disbound photograph album containing 32 various-sized snapshots related to travel by the Letchworth Family in Southern California in 1906. The images, accompanied by handwritten captions, include views of Eagle Rock, Pasadena, Las Casitas in Ventura, and the Miramar Inn in Santa Barbara, California, as well as four images of "Mr. Howard and his Burrows coming from Death Valley." The images include landscape views of Southern California canyons, hillsides, and ranch lands; horseback riding, hotel buildings, and two Native Americans. The images are mounted on 7 disbound 10 x 12 inch scrapbook pages from a photograph album. 15 of the images are 3 3/4 x 12 inch panoramas. The collection also contains one loose 6 x 8 inch gelatin silver print showing members of an audience in a grandstand during a March 1906 horse show in Pasadena (Item 33).

photCL 540

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Letchworth family photograph collection

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This collection consists of pages of a disbound photograph album containing 32 various-sized snapshots related to travel by the Letchworth Family in Southern California in 1906. The images, accompanied by handwritten captions, include views of Eagle Rock, Pasadena, Las Casitas in Ventura, and the Miramar Inn in Santa Barbara, California, as well as four images of "Mr. Howard and his Burrows coming from Death Valley." The images include landscape views of Southern California canyons, hillsides, and ranch lands; horseback riding, hotel buildings, and two Native Americans. The images are mounted on seven disbound scrapbook pages from a photograph album. 15 of the images are 3 3/4 x 12 inch panoramas. The collection also contains one loose 6 x 8 inch gelatin silver print showing members of an audience in a grandstand during a March 1906 horse show in Pasadena (Item 33).

photCL 540

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Louis Janin photographs of Australian mining

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This collection contains 41 mounted 6 x 8-inch photographs of gold and copper mines, miners, and mining facilities in Australia, approximately 1895, including close-up scenes of miners working with tools and equipment inside mines. Other images depict overviews of mine buildings and surrounding land, smelters, mine interiors with walls of timber, and miners wearing helmets with oil lamp lanterns. The photographs were taken by American mining engineer Louis Janin, who traveled to the Australian mining districts in 1895 to identify uses for American mining methods and equipment. He contributed a report, published in 1897, for the prospectus of Australia's Cobar Chesney Copper and Gold Mining Company. Most likely these photographs are connected to one or both of these projects. Handwritten captions on the photographs identify the following mines: C.C.C.; the Peak; Chesney; Mount Pleasant; Young Australian; and Cobar, as well as Fort Bourke Dam and Fort Bourke Cyanide Works.

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Louis Janin photographs of Australian mining

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Magalia Mine photographs

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