A display card featuring samples of gold at different degrees of fineness. The board was created by A. L. Simondi, assayer, Silver City, Idaho. The board was for R. F. Johnson, Esq., with compliments of the Donor.
In his two interviews with Anabelle Alexander, conducted June 20, 1975 and July 1, 1975, Willis Brassey remembers his life in Idaho. Brassey spoke of the time period between the 1870s and 1940s where he mined in Quartzburg, ran a stage, hauled ore...
Photo of the Monday Camp at Bradley Mining Company's Meadow Creek gold mine in the Yellow Pine Mining District in Valley County, Idaho circa 1931. The Meadow Creek Mine was one of the state's largest producers of lode gold in the 1930's.
Day, John, d. 1820?. --Frontier and pioneer life-West (U.S.) --Massacres-Idaho-Birch Creek. --Rodeos-Idaho-History. --West (U.S.)-History. --Alaska-Gold discoveries-History.
Scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs relating to Harrington's travels and interest in frontier history. Subjects include the Alaska gold rush of the 1898; the Birch Creek massacre in Idaho in 1877; John Day (1741-1820), trapper for the...
Aerial view taken in 1936 by the National Geographic Salmon River Expedition showing ground being dredged in Warren Meadow. Note the dredge is in the middle of the photo. The general pattern of dredge ponds and tailings piles created in this...
Close connected bucketline dredge owned and operated by the Bed Rock Dredging Company near Placerville, Idaho in 1898-1899. The dredge was named the H W Lippencott after the company president Howard Lippencott. The Bed Rock Dredging Company was a...
Steam powered close connected bucketline dredge ooperating in Warren Meadows near Warren, Idaho prior to 1942. The dredge was owned by the Idaho Gold Dredging Company.
Bucketline, bucket ladder and front gantry of close connected bucketline dredge operated near Idaho City, Idaho. Note the size of the dredge buckets is comparison to the man in the foreground. The 15 cubic foot dredge was owned and operated...
Fisher, Stanton G., 1840-1915 , Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909. Nez Percé Indians-History. Bannock Indians-History. Shoshoni Indians-History. Fort Hall Indian Reservation (Idaho)-History-Sources. Nez Percé Indian Reservation...
Correspondence (1889-1906); diaries (1875, 1877); autobiography (1888); scrapbook and newspaper clippings (1892-1915), photographs; journals; notebooks; and manuscript, Trail of a Gold Seeker, 1863.
Relief shown by contour lines. Shows geologic minerals for the area surrounding De Lamar, Dewey, and Silver City. Includes Florida Mountain, Black Jack and War Eagle Mountain. Includes minerals granite, basalt, gold, silver, etc. Includes legend....