St. Elmo Historic District, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, C...
Significance: St. Elmo is unique for its vernacular wood frame and log architecture and its high degree of architectural integrity as a late 19th century Rocky Mountain mining town. Through its extant architec... More
Aspaas Dam, Tacoma, La Plata County, CO
Significance: It was an integral part of the Tacoma Project, an early hydroelectric development in southwest Colorado. The Project was constructed in the early 1900s to serve the needs of the mining operations ... More
Lowe House I, North side, Pitkin Street, Southwest on North Fork, Chal...
Significance: Illustrates a first generation wooden balloon frame house in the mining camp, built soon after the first sawmill went into operation. In this case the owners of the house operated a sawmill. Sho... More
Lowe House I, North side, Pitkin Street, Southwest on North Fork, Chal...
Significance: Illustrates a first generation wooden balloon frame house in the mining camp, built soon after the first sawmill went into operation. In this case the owners of the house operated a sawmill. Sho... More
Dalton Trail Post, Mile 40, Haines Highway, Haines, Haines Borough, AK
Significance: Dalton Trail Post is associated with the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police and their role in maintaining order in the Kondike Gold Rush, and in the establishment of the United States-Canadian bord... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI
Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More
Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...
The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More
Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...
The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More
Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...
The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More
Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...
The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More
Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...
The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More
Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...
The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More
Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...
The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More
Orphan Lode Mine, North of West Rim Road between Powell Point and Mari...
Significance: It is significant because it is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. With the discovery of uranium deposits, the mine was further ... More
Orphan Lode Mine, North of West Rim Road between Powell Point and Mari...
Significance: It is significant because it is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. With the discovery of uranium deposits, the mine was further ... More
Orphan Lode Mine, North of West Rim Road between Powell Point and Mari...
Significance: It is significant because it is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. With the discovery of uranium deposits, the mine was further ... More
Orphan Lode Mine, North of West Rim Road between Powell Point and Mari...
Significance: It is significant because it is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. With the discovery of uranium deposits, the mine was further ... More
Orphan Lode Mine, North of West Rim Road between Powell Point and Mari...
Significance: It is significant because it is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. With the discovery of uranium deposits, the mine was further ... More
Orphan Lode Mine, North of West Rim Road between Powell Point and Mari...
Significance: It is significant because it is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. With the discovery of uranium deposits, the mine was further ... More
Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...
Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More
Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...
Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More
Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...
Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More
Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...
Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More
Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...
Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More
Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...
Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More
Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...
Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More
Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...
Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More
Logan House Road, Glenbrook, Douglas County, NV
Significance: The Logan House Road represents the transportation system developed to support the massive production achievement of the CTLF in association with the Comstock Mining era of Western Nevada. Survey... More
Kennecott Copper Corporation, Company Store & Warehouse, On Copper Riv...
Significance: The Store and Warehouse building was built in 1917, along with several other additions to Kennecott Company Town. The concentration of functions in the new building reflected the continued growth ... More
Kennecott Copper Corporation, Concentration Mill, On Copper River & No...
Significance: The Concentration Mill was a dynamic, ever changing structure. Its form reflected the ever-increasing complexity of the ores mined at Kennecott. The building was first erected in 1908 as the low... More
Kennecott Copper Corporation, Concentration Mill, On Copper River & No...
Significance: The Concentration Mill was a dynamic, ever changing structure. Its form reflected the ever-increasing complexity of the ores mined at Kennecott. The building was first erected in 1908 as the low... More
Kennecott Copper Corporation, Concentration Mill, On Copper River & No...
Significance: The Concentration Mill was a dynamic, ever changing structure. Its form reflected the ever-increasing complexity of the ores mined at Kennecott. The building was first erected in 1908 as the low... More
Kennecott Copper Corporation, Concentration Mill, On Copper River & No...
Significance: The Concentration Mill was a dynamic, ever changing structure. Its form reflected the ever-increasing complexity of the ores mined at Kennecott. The building was first erected in 1908 as the low... More
Kennecott Copper Corporation, Concentration Mill, On Copper River & No...
Significance: The Concentration Mill was a dynamic, ever changing structure. Its form reflected the ever-increasing complexity of the ores mined at Kennecott. The building was first erected in 1908 as the low... More
Kennecott Copper Corporation, Concentration Mill, On Copper River & No...
Significance: The Concentration Mill was a dynamic, ever changing structure. Its form reflected the ever-increasing complexity of the ores mined at Kennecott. The building was first erected in 1908 as the low... More
Burro Train with Ore from Revenue Tunnel, Mt. Sneffles, Colo., U. S. A
No. 1072. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The presidential party descending the 3,000 ft. shaft into the Congres...
Stereograph showing party traveling with McKinley and Roosevelt seated in mine train and about to descend into mine. H5307 U.S. Copyright Office.
The Mahoning Iron Mine, Hibbing, Minn.
Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Biwabik Mine, gelatin silver print
Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Arizona Hercules Mine. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph
Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; July 6, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Los Angeles, Cal.
Biddick Mine, Livingston, Wis. - Public domain portrait print
J209612 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Lighty Photo Co.; December 17, 1915. Copyright claimant's address: Williamsport, Ind.
Men at work with picks - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Title from jacket. Probably related to negatives D420-2342 to D420-2360. "401" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2348. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Guadalupe Mine, Miners' Cabins, Guadalupe Mine, New Almaden, Santa Cla...
Survey number: HABS CA-120 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal miners, Birmingham, Alabama
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dora Community, County Road 81, Dora, Walker County, AL
Significance: This mining boomtown and railroad distribution center represents the importance of the Warrior Coal Fields to the Birmingham District. While communities of this type once flourished throughout th... More
Nevada Lucky Tiger Mill & Mine, Stable, East slope of Buckskin Mountai...
Survey number: HAER NV-18-F Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and p...
Event: Interview with Pat Canterbury about labor history on Coal River.
Exterior, United Mine Workers of America union hall, Sundial, West Vir...
The Union Hall in Sundial is the meeting place for Union Local 6608 of the United Mine Workers. During the field project there was much discussion of the Massey/Pittston strikes that had occurred in the 1980s, ... More
"Big John," the dragline, shoveling coal at the Samples mountaintop re...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. The Samples mine covers eleven miles of the Cabin Creek Plateau. Writing in The Virginias, a 19th century industrial magazine, D.T. Ansted praised the ... More
Miners and organizers waiting for the results of a vote at the United ...
Event: United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Union Vote. Bob Phalan is president of UMWA District 17.
Mine sedimentation pond above a home on Toney's Fork
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
The commemorative march on Blair Mountain on the anniversary of the 19...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Closing circle of the Mountaintop Removal Summit
Event: Mountaintop Removal Summit. In August of 1999, Sam Cook, an anthropologist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, organized a Mountaintop Removal Summit. The summit, held at the Appalachian South Folk... More
Kennecott Copper Corporation, Leaching Plant, On Copper River & Northw...
Significance: The original leaching plant (now the south end of the building) was constructed in 1915 and went into production the next year. The first four leaching tanks could process 300 tons of ore per day... More
Morony Hydroelectric Facility, Morony-to-Rainbow 100 kV Transmission L...
Significance: The transmission line played an integral role in the growth of Montana's electrical and mining industries in the first half of the twentieth century. Its construction enabled the transmission of h... More
Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV
Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More
Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolite, Nye County, NV
Significance: Associated with the strikes that set off one of the last major gold mining booms in the Southwest. These strikes had a major impact upon the regional settlement patterns and economic activities o... More
Bayview Community, Off Birmingport Road (State Highway 269), Birmingha...
Significance: Bayview reflects the adoption of "City Beautiful" planning ideals, first expressed in the District in the exemplary planning at Fairfield, by a major industrial entity TCI which utilized these... More
Anaconda Historic District, Park & Commercial Streets, Main Street vic...
Significance: Anaconda was established in 1885 by Marcus Daly on Warm Springs Creek, as the site of the smelter for the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company. The site was selected for its proximity to the mines a... More
Miner's Delight, Atlantic City vicinity, Miners Delight, Fremont Count...
Significance: One of the three major communities in the South Pass Historic Mining District. Survey number: HABS WY-59
Miner's Delight, Atlantic City vicinity, Miners Delight, Fremont Count...
Significance: One of the three major communities in the South Pass Historic Mining District. Survey number: HABS WY-59
Kennecott Copper Corporation, Old School Building, On Copper River & N...
Survey number: HAER AK-1-M National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78003420
Fort McKinley, Double Mine Building, East side of East Side Drive, app...
Significance: Fort McKinley attains significance as the largest of Portland Harbor's five military complexes built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The fort protected Maine's principal city with one ... More
Genoa Peak Road, Glenbrook, Douglas County, NV
Significance: The Genoa Peak Road was a major historic log haul road used for timber harvest activities associated with the Comstock mining era. This road once interconnected an elaborate network of secondary ... More
Silver King Mining Company, Ore Mill, Park City West, Park City, Summi...
Significance: At the beginning of the twentieth century the Silver King Coalition Mine in Park City, Utah, was both the largest producer of ore and ore-concentrates in the region and the largest dividend-payer ... More
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mill & Tailings, Iron City (historical), C...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Boyer Ranch, Gilbert's Storeroom, 44 miles east of Fallon, on U.S. Hig...
Significance: The stone building was erected by the Gilbert Brothers ca. 1860-1866. Nevada Place Names states that Dixie Valley was settled by southern sympathizers in 1861 and in that same year the second gol... More
Roads Building I, South side, Gunnison Avenue, Saint Elmo (historical)...
Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Big Hole Pump Station, Old Highway 43, Divide, Silver Bow County, MT
The address has been updated from "Old Highway #43" to "816 Pumphouse Road (Old Highway 43)." Significance: The Big Hole Pump Station and original rock-filled crib dam were constructed in 1899. Butte Water Comp... More
Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...
Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More
Frisco Charcoal Kilns, Kiln No. 3, State Route 21 (Frisco), Milford, B...
Survey number: HAER UT-25-B Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction
Tioga Road, Between Crane Flat & Tioga Pass, Yosemite Village, Maripos...
Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Tioga Road, Between Crane Flat & Tioga Pass, Yosemite Village, Maripos...
Public domain photograph of Yosemite National Park, mountains, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tioga Road, Between Crane Flat & Tioga Pass, Yosemite Village, Maripos...
Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Ames Hydroelectric Plant, Ames, San Miguel County, CO
Significance: In 1890-91 L.L. Nunn built the world's first single-phase AC power transmission system at Ames in order to power the nearby Gold King Mine's stamp mill. The plant operated under a head of 320 feet... More
Mizpah Mine, Tonopah, Nye County, NV
Significance: The Tonopah Mining boom was the first to revive the mining industry in Nevada after two decades of depression. Mining activity was long sustained at Tonopah largely due to the amazing production ... More
Mizpah Mine, Tonopah, Nye County, NV
Significance: The Tonopah Mining boom was the first to revive the mining industry in Nevada after two decades of depression. Mining activity was long sustained at Tonopah largely due to the amazing production ... More