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Wide Awake Quicksilver Mine Records MSS.309
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Box 1

Reports and Photographs

 

Folder 1: Reports and Correspondence

 

Item 1: sc21054 Photograph of Quicksilver Mine (possibly Wide Awake Mine) 1930

 

Item 2: sc21055 Photograph shows view Northwest of the furnace-condenser complex at the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 3: sc21056 Photograph shows view Northwestward across canyon showing surface facilities of Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 4: sc21057 Photograph shows view eastward across Sulphur Creek Valley, Colusa County. 1900

 

Item 5: sc21058 Photograph shows view Eastward of the main surface facilities of the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 6: sc21059 Photograph shows miners removing mercury ore underground in the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 7: sc21060 Photograph shows bank of condensers in the furnace-condenser complex at the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 8: sc21061 Photograph shows view Northwestward of surface facilities of the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 9: sc21062 Photograph shows hoisting machinery for the shaft at the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 10: sc21063 Photograph shows entry to the furnace-condenser complex of the Wide Awake Mine, shown in photograph sc21055. 1900

 

Item 11: sc21064 Photograph shows worker feeding wood to the furnace at the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 12: sc21065 Photograph shows furnace at the Wide Awake Mine. A similar view taken later is shown in photograph sc21064. 1900

 

Item 13: sc21066 Photograph shows view Westward of the bunkhouse and cookhouse at the Wide Awake Mine. The relative locations of these facilities can be seen in photographs sc21056 and sc21061. 1900

 

Item 14: sc21067 Photograph shows miners at the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 15: sc21068 Photograph shows view Southwestward of the village of Sulphur Creek Mining District, Colusa County. The Wide Awake mine is behind the sloping ridge of the middle distance. 1900

 

Item 16: sc21069 Photograph shows view Southwestward of the shafthouse of the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 17: sc21070 Photograph shows view of the furnace-condenser complex of the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 18: sc21071 Photograph shows view Northward of the furnace-condenser complex under construction at the Wide Awake Mine. 1900

 

Item 19: sc21072 Photograph shows view Northward of the shafthouse at the Wide Awake Mine. 1900