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