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Lucky Mining Company, Orogrande, New Mexico photographs

 Unprocessed — Box: 1
Identifier: RG-2021-014

Content Description

Four mounted photographs made at the Lucky Mine and Nanny Baird Mines, owned by the Lucky Mining Company, Orogrande, New Mexico, ca. 1905. Embossed stamp on front of boards reads "Humphries Photo Co, El Paso, Texas." Photographs depict one interior and three exterior scenes with miners, mine operations and the mining site.

Acquisition Type

Purchase

Provenance

Purchase from Zephyr Used and Rare Books. Previous provenance unknown

Restrictions Apply

No

Dates

  • 1905

Extent

4 Photographic Prints

Inventory

1. "Miners out of Minnie Baird Mine" Group of miners gathered together for photograph at the headframe of a mine 2. "Reservoir" Overview of desert landscape with small reservoir, several buildings and tents, a house in the distance, and several men and teams of horses working 3. "Lucky Mine" Mine headframe and building on a hill in the distance, with a wooden smelter building in the foreground next to railroad tracks 4. "Compressor" Man standing with machinery inside of a wooden building