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Photograph of 1200 foot level, Belmont Mine in Tonopah (Nev.), 1911

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Date
1911
Description
1200 ft. level, Belmont Mine, Tonopah, NV, 1911. There is an inscription on the back of the image: "The Tonopah Belmont Development Company was Tonopah's second most prosperous mining company, recording a production of $38,000,000. The Belmont mine was the company's principal working shaft and reached a depth of 1700 feet. The Belmont shaft was in use from 1909 until it was burned out by a fire of undetermined origin October 31, 1939." There is a date stamp: mid-year 1987.
Digital ID
pho020545
Physical Identifier
0082_0030
Permalink
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1c824k21
Details
Subject
Mining machinery
Mines and mineral resources
Place
Tonopah Belmont Mine
Resource Type
Still Image
Material Type
photographs
photographic prints
Source
1200 foot level, Belmont Mine, Tonopah, Nevada, 1911
Citation

pho020545. Central Nevada Historical Society Photograph Collection. PH-00082. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1c824k21.

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Digital Provenance
Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
Extent
2873 x 2244 pixels
4.79 x 3.74 inches
19,349,504 bytes
Language

English

Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Format
image/tiff