Lucky Mining Company, Orogrande, New Mexico photographs
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