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A power drill at the Echo Mining Company mine, Mojave Mining District, ca.1900 (CHS-2412)

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A power drill at the Echo Mining Company mine, Mojave Mining District, ca.1900

Photograph of a power drill in operation at the Echo Mining Company mine, Mojave Mining District. Dust is generated at right. The drill is anchored in spot with a jack expanded into a crack. The drill's power line leads to the left. Several metal rods (drill bits?) and shoring are visible at left.

Call number: CHS-2412

Filename: CHS-2412

Coverage date: circa 1900

Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Format: glass plate negatives

Type: images

Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960

Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections

Accession number: 2412

Microfiche number: 1-111-50

Archival file: chs_Volume92/CHS-2412.tiff

Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Geographic subject (country): USA

Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.

Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California

Subject (adlf): mine sites

Project: USC

Repository email: specol@usc.edu

Contributing entity: California Historical Society

Date created: circa 1900

Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries

Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs

Geographic subject (state): California

Legacy record ID: chs-m15430; USC-1-1-1-14115

Geographic subject: deserts: Mojave Desert

Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.

Subject (file heading): Mining -- Mojave Desert mines

Subject (lcsh): Deserts; Mines and mineral resources

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