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Virgina City and Gold Hill Nevada mining views

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Description: The photographs consist of albumen prints and cabinet card views depicting images of the Gold Hill, Silver City, and Virginia City mining communities in Nevada. Horse teams, mining machinery, horse teams, and miners are captured in daily activities. Annotations found on some of the photographs note Ed C. Swift (horse team owner), Ralph Gillespie (Gold Hill Wagon shop), and Devil's Gate Cut (Silver City). Also included is an image of Gold Hill miners posing for a photograph and in the center is an Asian man dressed in a cook's uniform. Within the group of photographs is a reproduction of the Comstock delegation assembled on January 12, 1864 which includes Mark Twain, Joseph T. Goodman, Steve Gillis, William Claggett, and Jack Simmons.The cabinet cards are attributed to James H. Crockwell.
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Production date: 1864-1875.
Call number: photPF 3463-3479

Mining Gold at Coloma

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A hand-colored daguerreotype from approximately 1850 to 1851 captured a group of miners excavating gold in Coloma, California, near Sutter's Mill. The center figure in the photograph has been noted as Martin Joseph Allhoff, Sr. (1827-1867), a Prussian immigrant who traveled to California during the Gold Rush. Allhoff later settled in Coloma and established a commercial winery at Granite Hill prior to his death. To the left and right of Allhoff in the image are men holding wood handled tools, a sluice appears behind them, and two men are kneeling in the foreground. The person sitting to the right in the foreground is holding a pan with tinted gold. Also pictured to the right are possibly four to five Chinese miners. Both front and back embossed covers retain parts of the original clasps, but there are no longer hinges attached to the case. The interior of the case contains a note adhered to the red fabric lining. It reads, "'Mining Gold at Coloma' Sutters Mill California about 1850-'51. The center figure-with shovel is Martin Allhoff of Coloma-This presented to Phil B. Bekeart-San Francisco by Martin J. Allhoff-son of Martin Allhoff 1914."

photPF 26046

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Views of New Mexico, including gold miners and Jemez Pueblo

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Cabinet card photographs of New Mexico including ruins of adobe Catholic church, Socorro; interior of chapel in Santa Cruz; and the Catholic cathedral and plaza in Albuquerque. Other photographs: a studio portrait of two Native American women and an overview of Jemez Pueblo, showing dwellings and crops; an orchard and watering system on a fruit ranch; and two gold miners posed with tools in the desert, described on verso as "two prospectors in act of sinking shaft."

photPF 1510-1529

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Henry Curtis Morris photograph album of Nevada and California mining

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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.

photCL 233

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Henry Curtis Morris photograph album of Nevada and California mining

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photCL 233

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Memo & Papers: Relief Hill Mining Prop., Nevada Co., Calif

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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.

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Business records of the Silver Hills Mining Company

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Group of business records kept by William M. Donovan at the Silver Hills Mining Company. Includes 10 ledgers containing expense reports, daily production totals, assays, employee labor records, check registers, and settlements. Also includes silver and gold delivery reports and affidavits from 1935 and 1938. Some of the records are labeled Donovan Gold Mill, Donovan Mining and Milling Co., and Donovan Mill and Reduction Works. Also includes a postcard photograph of Donovan Mill, Silver City, Nevada.

mssHM 75649-75662

Virgina City and Gold Hill Nevada mining views

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