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Henry Curtis Morris photograph album of Nevada and California mining

Description: An album of 160 photographs of mining life and towns in Nevada and California from 1904-1912, with many images of mining camps in and around Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada. The album compiler was mining engineer Henry Curtis Morris, who presumably took many of the photographs and wrote the descriptions. Other images are by commercial photographer P. E. Larson of Goldfield. Most of the album images are of Nevada, including mining towns Ione, Hornsilver, Monarch, Belmont, Austin, Rawhide, and Fairview, with some images of the Reno Reduction Works mill. Other subjects are: mining operations; mine interiors with miners carrying picks and candles; prospectors panning for gold; miners' pack teams; prospectors' tents; covered wagons; and log cabins. Several views show Paiute Indians around Reese River, Nevada. There are a small number of images in California, primarily mining camps in Death Valley.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1904-1912
Call number: photCL 233
Creator: Morris, Henry Curtis (1875-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Talisman Press, 1978.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Larss, P. E.
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Henry Curtis Morris photograph album of Nevada and California mining

Visual Materials

An album of 160 photographs of mining life and towns in Nevada and California from 1904-1912, with many images of mining camps in and around Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada. The album compiler was mining engineer Henry Curtis Morris, who presumably took many of the photographs and wrote the descriptions. Other images are by commercial photographer P. E. Larson of Goldfield. Most of the album images are of Nevada, including mining towns Ione, Hornsilver, Monarch, Belmont, Austin, Rawhide, and Fairview, with some images of the Reno Reduction Works mill. Other subjects are: mining operations; mine interiors with miners carrying picks and candles; prospectors panning for gold; miners' pack teams; prospectors' tents; covered wagons; and log cabins. Several views show Paiute Indians around Reese River, Nevada. There are a small number of images in California, primarily mining camps in Death Valley.

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Tonopah, Nevada. Belmont Mine and Mill]

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These copy prints includes scenes from Tonopah, Goldfield and Manhattan, Nevada. The photographs show: miners, mines and mining operations, street scenes, buildings, parades and drilling contests.

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[Tonopah, Nevada. Team at Mill, Montana Mine]

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These copy prints includes scenes from Tonopah, Goldfield and Manhattan, Nevada. The photographs show: miners, mines and mining operations, street scenes, buildings, parades and drilling contests.

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Thomas Family Photograph Album

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A personal photograph album of 104 images with handwritten captions chiefly depicting Chester A. Thomas (1874-1920) and Thomas family members between 1892 and 1898 in mining camps in Nevada (pages 1-29); at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California (pages 30-33); visiting Harvard University and Cambridge, Massachusetts (pages 38-49); and at Camp Merritt at the Presidio, San Francisco, in 1898 (pages 33-37 and 50-65). The album includes 20 cyanotype photographs (12.5 x 16.5 cm) of the mining camps in Virginia City and Sutro, Nevada (where Thomas's father, Charles Thomas, was superintendent of the Sutro tunnel), including: mining equipment, miners, locomotive cars, interior views of the mine shaft, buildings and mules. Some of the images are of Camp Merritt, at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, where California volunteers assembled in May-June 1898 for transport to the Philippines during the Spanish American War. Thomas, a member of Company K of the United States Cavalry Volunteers, is depicted as well as other soldiers, including members of the 51st Iowa Volunteers.

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Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada, Photograph Collection

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This collection contains 92 glass-plate negatives and corresponding copy prints depicting the mining towns of Tonopah, Goldfield, and Manhattan, Nevada, in the early 20th century. The photographs show: miners, mines and mining operations, street scenes, buildings (including some interiors), parades, and drilling contests. Many of the photographs have the imprint of photographer E.W. Smith of Tonopah. Item titles chiefly transcribed from handwritten captions on images; cataloger-supplied titles are in square brackets.

photCL 172

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Photograph album of automobile road trips in Owens Valley, California

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A photograph album of group automobile trips chiefly through the Owens Valley, California area in 1932, including visits to the towns of Lone Pine, Panamint City, and Independence; hiking in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains; rifle shooting; and drives to mines and mining camps. Several images depict the filming of the Western movie "Flaming Guns" (1932) around Lone Pine, showing the film crew and actor Tom Mix. The unknown photographer may have been working at the Natural Soda Products Company plant, which was situated on the dry lakebed of Owens Lake near Keeler, as there are several images of the mineral plant, the Keeler swimming pool, and a small bedroom captioned "my room at N.S.P. Co." Other images show an Easter service in Keeler, the Cerro Gordo Mine, Estelle Mine, Onion Valley, and in Nevada, the towns of Lida and Goldfield. There are also travel scenes with friends and family in Southern California, including Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes peninsula, and crowds at a Christian Endeavor convention in Whittier.

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