Trade Dollar Mine at Dewey in Owyhee County, Idaho. Crews from both the day and night shifts are outside the Blaine Tunnel. Photo taken May 1900. "Big Bill Haywood" in front row, fourth from right. Elisha Lewis of Silver City and Boise identifies...
Mine Disaster Memorial. This double life size statue was sculptured from steel with welding torch and rod by Ken Lonn to honor the 91 victims of the country's worst mine disaster since 1917 plus all the living hardrock miners of the Coeur d'Alene...
Water wheel and water powered arrastra on Silver Creek near Pierce, Idaho. Arrastras were used to crush ore to liberate metals from the waste rock. Photo circa 1892.
Mine and Mill Buildings at the Oro Fino Mine on War Eagle Mountain near Silver City in Owyhee County. Photo was taken 1866. The Oro Fino Mine was discovered in August 1863. The mine was worked for a number of years by J. Marion More and David...
Twelve women posed on a porch. They appear to be part of an organization or club as several are wearing similar jackets-perhaps to indicate rank within the organization-and ornamental pins. Three of the women are identified as Julie Allen, Maud...
Upper row: 1. Helen Murphy Blackinger (left), 2. Fred Irwin, Mgr. Idaho-Pittsburg later Trade Dollar Mine, 3. Permeal French, later Dean of Women, University of Idaho. Lower row: 1. R. H. Britt, Mgr. Poorman Mine.
Scale not given. Includes names of mines in vicinity: Cortez Silver Lead Mines, East Silver Belt, Silver Mountain (Bunker Hill and Hecla), Princeton Mining Company, etc. Includes parts of Montana.
Headframe of the Queen of the Hill Mine near Bellevue, Blaine County, Idaho. The Silver Star Queen Mine is in the background. Mine buildings at the Silver Queen are erected on the waste dump above the forested valley floor.
Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928-Trials, litigation, etc. Idaho. Attorney General (1887-1890 : Johnson) Trials-Idaho-History-Sources. Lawyers-Idaho-Boise-Records and correspondence. Lawyers-Idaho-Silver City-Records and correspondence. United...
Correspondence and financial records relating to Johnson's law practice in Boise and Silver City, Idaho, and to his term as attorney general of Idaho; scrapbooks concerning U.S. politics and the Civil War (1859-1862), Johnson's law practice and...