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MS-0472
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & University Archives
Title: Annie L. Jobs Photograph Album
Creator:
Jobs, Annie L.
Identifier/Call Number: MS-0472
Physical Description:
1.00 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1884-1887
Date (bulk): 1886-1887
Language of Material:
English
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Annie L. Jobs compiled the photograph album in 1887, although the earliest photograph dates to 1884. Photographs include Flint,
Idaho Mining Company buildings, company staff, miners, miner tents and dwellings, camp holiday celebrations, and surrounding
scenery including Hard-Up Gulch and Eagle River. Jobs wrote meticulous descriptions to accompany each photograph in the album
and listed the names of individuals in the photographs, such as Howard French, the bookkeeper; Smy, the stock keeper; Robert
Brewster Stanton, engineer and general manager; Stanton's daughter, Anna; "Professor" John Duff, the assayer; Dick Parker;
Al Lawrence; Balcom, the surveyor for the Rio Grande Rail Road extension from Eagle River to Aspen; and others. The collection
also includes a group of loose cyanotypes with descriptions written on the back of each photograph.
The collection is open for research.
These materials are in the public domain. However, the nature of historical archival and manuscript collections means that
copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained
in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections,
San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. Permissions is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner
of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained
in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. The
user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright
and publication rights of reproduced materials.
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Annie L. Jobs Photograph Album, Special Collections and University Archives, San Diego State University Library.
Annie L. Jobs was probably the wife of Thomas A. Jobs, secretary of the Flint, Idaho Mining Company in Flint, Idaho. Thomas
passed the Colorado Bar exam in 1880. He and Annie lived in Flint between 1884 and 1887, but around 1890 they appear to have
moved south to Arizona where Thomas worked as a lawyer and judge in Maricopa County. The Jobs' daughter, Margaret C. Jobs
was confirmed in Phoenix in April 1906.
Flint was a small mining town approximately nine miles south of Silver City in Owyhee County, and had a population of around
fifteen hundred at its peak. The Flint, Idaho Mining Company was formally registered in 1886. Jobs served as secretary, and
Robert Brewster Stanton worked as the engineer and general manager of the company. Native Americans threatened the town and
its inhabitants on several occasions, leading to the involvement of the United States Calvary, which quelled the disturbances. Flint
is now a ghost town, with only a few of its original buildings still standing.
2011-015
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs
Miners--1880-1890
Flint, Idaho Mining Company
Stanton, Robert Brewster, 1846-1922