Pre -1950s truck parked next to the mine entrance, entry is covered by a tin roofed shed built into solid rock. Mining equipment is strewn about the entrance to the mine.
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A first person account of two daughters being raised in Idaho City from 1930 - 1943. They moved to Spanish Creek area in 1934 and wintered in Caldwell. The father was a gold miner. Describes his activities sluicing and panning gold. Describes their...
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.
Three miners posed at mine portal standing by ore car. (Photograph slightly out of focus). The mine is located on the side of a mountain. A ore car is visible in front of the adit. Men are wearing hats, vests, and buttoned shirts.
Miners are being transported underground in flat cars pulled by an electric powered motor. Mine is located near Mullan, Idaho in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District.
Cordelia Farrer in dining room, Note icebox on left. This photo shows the furnishings and decoration of the dining room. Various pictures and photographs are displayed on the walls. Assorted serving dishes and utensils are arranged on the icebox...
The Caswell brothers in their cabin. The Caswell brothers discovered gold at Thunder Mountain in Valley County. The discovery of gold at Thunder Mountain initiated a massive rush to the area in the late 1890's. Left to right: Lew, Ben, Dan based...
Photo of two wilfley tables at the Yellowjacket Mill. Notice the bucket used to catch gold, bottom left. Materials ran down the trough from the first wilfley table to the second wilfley table.
Phots shows the lower level of the Yellowjacket mill. Ore was dumped beside the mill, then washed into a trough that fed into the trommel screen. The trommel discharged onto the wilfly table which caught the free gold.
Flotation cells in the mill at the Bradley Mining Company's Stibnite Mine. During World War II, this mine was one of the principal producer of tungsten and antimony in the United States.