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Morris (Henry Curtis) photograph album of Nevada and California mining
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The Huntington Library Photo Archives
Title: Henry Curtis Morris photograph album of Nevada and California mining
Creator:
Morris, Henry Curtis, 1875-
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 233
Physical Description:
1 Volume
(160 photographs)
Date (inclusive): 1904-1912
Abstract: A photograph album of early towns and mining life in Nevada from 1904-1912, with a few images in California.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item]. Henry Curtis Morris photograph album of Nevada and California mining, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Talisman Press, 1978.
Henry Curtis Morris (born 1875) was an American mining engineer in Nevada about 1900-1915 and worked for the United States
Bureau of Mines. He wrote two books chronicling these years: "Desert Gold and Total Prospecting" (1955) and "The Mining West
at the Turn of the Century" (1962), subtitled: "Illustrated accounts of many mining camps that I knew, when they were discovered
and richly productive and we could sell our gold and silver without official interference." A few photographs in this album
are published in his books.
An album of 160 photographs of mining life and towns in Nevada and California from 1904-1912, with many images of mining camps
in and around Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada. The album compiler was mining engineer Henry Curtis Morris, who presumably took
many of the photographs and wrote the descriptions. Other images are by commercial photographer P. E. Larson of Goldfield.
Most of the album images are of Nevada, including mining towns Ione, Hornsilver, Monarch, Belmont, Austin, Rawhide, and Fairview,
with some images of the Reno Reduction Works mill. Other subjects are: mining operations; mine interiors with miners carrying
picks and candles; prospectors panning for gold; miners' pack teams; prospectors' tents; covered wagons; and log cabins. Several
views show Paiute Indians around Reese River, Nevada. There are a small number of images in California, primarily mining camps
in Death Valley.
Processed by Huntington Library staff, circa late-20th century. In 2020, Suzanne Oatey created a finding aid derived from
a collection file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada
Gold mines and mining -- Nevada
Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada
Paiute Indians
Goldfield (Nev.) -- History -- Sources
Nevada -- Description and travel
Photographs
Photograph albums
Larss, P. E. (Per Edward)