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Title: Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada,
Photograph Collection
Dates (inclusive): 1902-1909
Collection Number: photCL 172
Extent: 92 photographs in 5 boxes : glass negatives ; 16.5 x 21.5 cm + 1 box of 20 x 25 cm copy prints.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: 92 glass-plate negatives depicting the mining towns of Tonopah, Goldfield, and Manhattan, Nevada, in the early 20th century.
The photographs show: miners, mines and mining operations, street scenes, buildings, parades and drilling contests.
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada, Photograph Collection,
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Ned Holloway, June 1964.
This collection contains 92 glass-plate negatives and corresponding copy prints depicting the mining towns of Tonopah, Goldfield,
and Manhattan, Nevada, in the early 20th century.
The photographs show: miners, mines and mining operations, street scenes, buildings (including some interiors), parades, and
drilling contests. Many of the photographs have the imprint of photographer E.W. Smith of
Tonopah.
Item titles chiefly transcribed from handwritten captions on images; cataloger-supplied titles are in square brackets.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Miners -- Nevada --
Photographs.
Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada --
Goldfield -- Photographs.
Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada --
Tonopah -- Photographs.
Mining camps -- Photographs.
Goldfield (Nev.) --
Photographs.
Tonopah (Nev.) --
Photographs.
Photographs.
Glass negatives.
Smith, E. W., 1850-1941, photographer.