Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada, Photograph Collection: Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Brooke M. Black, August 4, 2012, and updated by Diann Benti in December 2016.

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Overview of the Collection

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.

Access

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Administrative Information

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada, Photograph Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Provenance

Purchased from Ned Holloway, June 1964.

Scope and Content

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.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog.

Subjects

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.

Forms/Genres

Photographs.

Glass negatives.

Alternate Authors

Smith, E. W., 1850-1941, photographer.

Box 1

Copy prints

Item 1

Mrs. Callahan’s Dining Room, Ellendale, June 11, 1909.

Item 2

Ellendale Pioneers, June 11, 1909.

Item 3

Main St. Goldfield, Sept. 15, 1905.

Item 4

Dugouts, Goldfield Nev.

Item 5

Men in Front of Building, Goldfield]

Item 6

[First Mercantile Store in Manhattan. Henry Dodge Prop.

Item 7

Merchants Hotel, Manhattan, Nev.

Item 8

Merchant’s Hotel, Manhattan.

Item 9

Main St., Manhattan.

Item 10

Drilling Contest, Tonopah, Nev., July 4, 1902.

Item 11

Drilling Contest, Tonopah, July 4, 1902.

Item 12

Labor Parade in Front of Miner’s Exchange Hall, Tonopah, Nev. Sept. 1902]

Item 13

[Squaw Race, Tonopah, Nev., July 4, 1903.

Item 14

Drilling Contest, Tonopah, Nev., July 4, 1903]

Item 15

Street Scene, Tonopah, Nev., July 4, 1903]

Item 16

[Band in Street, Tonopah, Nev.]

Item 17

[Street Crowd at an event]

Item 18

[Reviewing Stand, Tonopah, Nev., July 26, 1904]

Item 19

[Drilling Contest, Tonopah, Nevada, July 26, 1904]

Item 20

[Drilling Contest. R. R. Carnival.

Item 21

[Drilling Contest, R. R. Carnival.

Item 22

Drilling Contest, Tonopah R. R. Carnival, July 21, 1904.

Item 23

July Fourth -1905 - Tonopah.

Item 24

Tonopah, Nevada. Parade]

Item 25

[Tonopah, Nevada. Parade]

Item 26

[Tonopah, Nevada. Parade]

Item 27

[Tonopah, Nevada. Parade]

Item 28

[Tonopah, Nevada. Order of Moose Parade]

Item 29

[Tonopah, Nevada. Parade Elk’s Float]

Item 30

[Tonopah, Nevada. Street Crowd]

Item 31

[Tonopah, Nevada. Float in Parade]

Item 32

[Tonopah, Nevada. Drilling Contest]

Item 33

[Tonopah, Nevada. Drilling Contest]

Item 34

[Tonopah, Nevada. Drilling Contest]

Item 35

[Tonopah, Nevada. Parade]

Item 36

[Tonopah, Nevada. Parade]

Item 37

[Tonopah, Nevada. Parade Float]

Item 38

[Tonopah, Nevada. Autos in Parade]

Item 39

[Tonopah, Nevada. Parade]

Item 40

[Tonopah, Nevada. 1905 or later]

Item 41

[Tonopah Nevada. Water Fight in Street]

Item 42

[Tonopah, Nevada. Water Fight in Street]

Item 43

[Tonopah, Nevada. Float in Parade]

Item 44

[Tonopah, Nevada. Parade Scene]

Item 45

[Tonopah, Nevada. Mooseheart Horse Float]

Item 46

[Tonopah, Nevada. Float in Parade]

Item 47

[Tonopah, Nevada. Baseball Game, Tonopah, Nevada

Item 48

Tonopah, Nevada. Golden Block, Jan. 1903]

Item 49

[Thomas-Sixty, S. F. to N. Y. Tonopah June 8, 1909.

Item 50

Tonopah, Nevada. General View]

Item 51

[Tonopah, Nevada. General View]

Item 52

[Nev. Calif. Power Station, Tonopah, Nev.

Item 53

Tonopah, Nevada. Wagon Fire Dep’t]

Item 54

[Tonopah, Nevada. Firehouse and Truck]

Item 55

[Tonopah, Nevada. Eagle Drum Corps]

Item 56

[Tonopah, Nevada. Ruins of a Burned Building]

Item 57

[Tonopah, Nevada. Miners Exchange Hall]

Item 58

[Tonopah, Nevada. Group in front of McAuliff’s Café]

Item 59

[Tonopah, Nevada. Group of men in front of store]

Item 60

[Tonopah, Nevada. Group of men in front of store]

Item 61

[Theater, Tonopah, Nevada.

Item 62

Tonopah, Nevada. Street Scene]

Item 63

[Red Light District of Goldfield, Nevada]

Item 64

[Montana Tonopah Mining Co.

Item 65

Main St., Tonopah, Nev.

Item 66

Tonopah, Nevada. Street Scene]

Item 67

[Tonopah, Nevada. Auto in Street]

Item 68

[Tonopah, Nevada. Auto in Street]

Item 69

[Tonopah, Nevada. General View of Town]

Item 70

[Mary Mine, Workers at Entrance to Tunnel.

Item 71

West End Mine, Tonopah, Nev.

Item 72

Miners Hospital and West End Mine, Tonopah, Nev.

Item 73

Halifax mine, Tonopah, Nev.

Item 74

Belmont Mine and Mill, Tonopah, Nev.

Item 75

Midway Mine, Tonopah, Nev.

Item 76

Midway Mine.

Item 77

Montana-Tonopah Mine.

Item 78

Tonopah, Nevada. Belmont Mine and Mill]

Item 79

[Tonopah, Nevada. Windlass at Shaft Heap]

Item 80

[Tonopah, Nevada. Team at Mill, Montana Mine]

Item 81

[Tonopah, Nevada. Freight Team]

Item 82

[Tonopah, Nevada. Pack Train in street, Tonopah]

Item 83

[Tonopah, Nevada. Team pulling several wagons]

Item 84

[Tonopah, Nevada. Team pulling five wagons]

Item 85

[Tonopah, Nevada. Team Moving a House]

Item 86

[Tonopah, Nevada. Freighting Team on Mountainside]

Item 87

[Tonopah, Nevada. The Burros]

Item 88

[The Burros (five men)]

Item 89

[Tonopah, Nevada. Group]

Item 90

[Tonopah, Nevada. Men in Saloon]

Item 91

[Goldfield, Nevada. Men in Front of Saloon]

Item 92

[Tonopah, Nevada. Train in snow]

Glass negatives

Access Information

RESTRICTED. Use copy prints. Original glass negatives available by special permission only.

Neg. Box 1

Negatives # 1-20

Neg. Box 2

Negatives #21-40

Neg. Box 3

Negatives #41-60

Neg. Box 4

Negatives #61-75

Neg. Box 5

Negatives #76-92