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Acme Mining Company, creator. [Photographs from the Acme Mining Company records concerning the Greenhorn Mine].
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Title:
[Photographs from the Acme Mining Company records concerning the Greenhorn Mine]Creator/Contributor:
Acme Mining Company, creator, creator.Abstract:
Photographs documenting Shasta County mining operations of the Greenhorn Mining Company from the 1920s to the early 1940s,
when it was acquired by Acme Mining Company. Images include general views, strip mining activities and the associated pit,
mine portals, dumps, a mill under construction, warehouses and other facilities, outcroppings and other features of Greenhorn
Mountain and the surrounding terrain, Willow Creek, roads, and a nearby prison camp.
Date:
1920 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caAcme Mining Company -- Archives
Acme Mining Company -- Photographs
Greenhorn Mining Company -- Photographs
Mines and mineral resources -- California -- Shasta County -- Photographs
Strip mining -- California -- Shasta County -- Photographs
Shasta County (Calif.) -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers unknown.
Photograph album disbound for ease of access. Album cover retained and shelved with contents. Most album leaves and unmounted
prints include descriptive hand-written captions, some dated.
Photographs from the Acme Mining Company records concerning the Greenhorn Mine, BANC PIC 2012.130, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Purchase ; from Marc Selvaggio ; 2012.
The Greenhorn Mine is a copper mine located in Shasta County, California at an elevation of 2,749 feet. It operated under
the name of Greenhorn Mining Company until it was acquired by Acme Mining Company on August 3, 1942.
Transferred from the Acme Mining Company records concerning the Greenhorn Mine (BANC MSS 2012/124).
Type:
graphicPhotograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 90 photographs in 3 folders : gelatin silver prints, most mounted to paper leaves ; prints various sizes, mounts
29 x 22 cm (8 1/2 x 11 format)
Language:
English