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Anaconda Copper Mine photographs

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1889-approximately 1896.
Call number: photCL 52
Creator: Hawes Palace Studio(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of the Hague family, March 1947.

United Verde Copper Company and the United Verde & Pacific Railway photographs

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34 card photographs showing views related to the United Verde Copper Company in Jerome, Arizona, and the United Verde & Pacific Railway, including elevated views of mine buildings and interior views of mine floors with equipment, views of locomotives, trains, railroad tracks, and railroad bridges of the United Verde & Pacific Railroad, and the town of Jerome.

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Phelps Dodge Mining Photographs, Miami, Arizona

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Sixteen artistic black-and-white photographs by J. Barry Thomson of various aspects of the mining operations of the Phelps Dodge Corporation in Miami, Arizona, in the early 2000s, including production, equipment, and products. Images include depictions of the mine floor; the leaching area; equipment such as trucks, conveyors, and shovels; an eroded slag heap; details of the acid plant and other processes. Some photographs are close-up or partial views of materials or products, while others are landscape views. Each print is matted, and the mats have the signature of the photographer in pencil.

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Chronicle Gold Mining Company

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Letters from Nelson Logue, Claude Logue, and Margaret Logue, to Nelson and Claude's parents Ida and Reuben Logue in Aspen, Colorado. Nelson's early letters describe his academic progress at the Colorado School of Mines, school events, and visits to the surrounding countryside; and a brief stint working in El Paso, Texas. Later letters detail his work for the American Smelting and Refining Company in Hayden, Arizona, and also mention trips to the Arizona desert and his thoughts on the state of copper mining. Claude Logue writes of his work in Denver and Alma, Colorado, and Anaconda, Montana, and also relays news of layoffs and fatal accidents in the mines. Margaret Logue's letters are filled with details of her daily life at home with Claude often away, including differences in small town amenities; and the work of caring for animals, tending the garden, preparing food, and performing strenuous outdoor chores. She also describes the family's move to Butte, Montana, and the process of finding a house and relocating. There are also documents related to the Chronicle Gold Mining Company, located near Prescott, Arizona, including reports, stock certificates, and business correspondence.

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Vol. 2. New Almaden Quicksilver Mine

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In 1863, Watkins was commissioned to photograph the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine near San Jose, California, by William Eustace Barron, a founding partner and San Francisco merchant. This group of 8 mammoth plate photographs depict the structures and works of the quicksilver (i.e. mercury) mine set among hillsides, including smelting furnaces, metal sheds, and paths leading to mine entrances. One view depicts about 40 workers at a quarry, including several adolescent boys posed with wheelbarrows. The miners' community of small houses and wooden shacks is also seen in views titled "Hacienda" and "The Town on the Hill."

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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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Magalia Mine photographs

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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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Anaconda Copper Mine photographs

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