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Photograph of Pershing Quicksilver Works interior, Rochester Mining District, Nevada, October 10, 1927

Date
1927-10-10
Description
The interior of Pershing Quicksilver Works, Rochester Mining District, 20 miles north of Lovelock, Nevada. Taken during construction.

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Photograph of Ward charcoal ovens, White Pine County, Nevada, 1960-1961

Date
1960 to 1961
Description
The Ward charcoal ovens are one of many tourist attractions in White Pine County. These historic remnants of the old mining days in the West are located just outside of Ely.

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View of Cul-de-sac at Mt. Diablo Mine, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1967-06
Description
From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240). Office and superintendent's house (collapsed), taken from top of tailings dump near ruins of hoisting works building.

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Evan and Kathy Thompson Photograph Collection

Identifier
PH-00042
Abstract

The Evan and Kathy Thompson Photograph Collection depicts Beatty, Nevada, Rhyolite, Nevada, and Keane Wonder Mine, California around 1925. The photographs include the Rhyolite Bottle House, mining operations in Rhyolite and Keane Wonder Mine, and citizens of Rhyolite.

Archival Collection

Film transparency of Olive Lake, Herbert Squires, and Charles P. Squires, Mount Charleston, Nevada, 1912

Date
1912
Description
Black and white image of Olive Lake and two others, presumed to be Herbert Squires and his father, Charles P. Squires, at the Squires' mine at Mount Charleston near Las Vegas. Transcribed notes from Special Collections photo inventory: “Charleston 1912. Olive, Herbert, & Dad at his mine, 2 miles on up the Canyon.”

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Photograph of blister copper being poured at Kennecott Copper Corporation, McGill, Nevada, 1960-1961

Date
1960 to 1961
Description
The end product, blister copper, is being poured from holding furnace into conveyor belt molds. Each bar weighs approximately 400 pounds and contains 99.4 percent copper.

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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George

Date
1925-02 to 1925-03
Description
This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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Abandoned mill and equipment in Esmeralda County: photographic print

Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1905 (year approximate)
Description
Black and white image of an abandoned mill & cyanide plant in Divide District, Esmeralda County, Nevada circa early 1900s.

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Elmer J. Chute's map of U.S. patent and location surveys in the Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties (Nev.), 1907

Date
1907
Description
Scale [ca. 1:22,800. 1 in. to approx. 1900 feet] ; 1 map : col. ; 66 x 82 cm., folded to 18 x 9 cm ; Includes index Includes township and range grid ;

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Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection

Identifier
PH-00305
Abstract

The Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection (approximately 1900-1935) is comprised of nine black-and-white photographic prints depicting railroads, locomotives, and mines in Tonopah, Nevada and Tecopa, California.

Archival Collection