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 "Clifton, Arizona, jail. Built about 1881 by Lezinsky Bros., original owners of the copper mines at Clifton. Contract for blasting cells in face of cliff secured by a Mexican, Margarito Barela, who was its first prisoner imprisoned for a`shooting up' celebration." [431kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Goldhill, Nev. General view of the town and mines. By O'Sullivan, 1867--68. [353kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Orena, Nev., Montezuma silver smelting works. Ox teams and men at rest. By O'Sullivan, 1867. [334kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Miner working inside the Comstock Mine, Virginia City, Nev. Taken by O'Sullivan using the glare of burning magnesium for a flash of light, 1867--68. [249kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Cars coming out of shaft, Comstock Mine, Virginia City, Nev. By O'Sullivan, 1867-68. [246kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Hydraulic gold mining near Virginia City, Mont. Terr. A flume is laid upon bedrock in the bottom of Alder Gulch and the waters of the creek brought through it, carrying the auriferous sand. The sides of the gulch are washed away into sluiceboxes where the gold is collected. By Jackson, 1871. [298kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Panning for gold near Virginia City, Mont. Terr. By Jackson, 1871. [327kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Man with a rocker cradling for gold near Virginia City, Mont. Terr. By Jackson, 1871 [331kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Camp of the Miners of the North Star and Mountaineer Lodes, on King Solomon Mountain, above Cunningham Gulch." By Jackson, 1875, in San Juan County, Colo. Terr. [314kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Ore teams on a dusty road, Pinal Co., Ariz. Terr., ca. 1897. [360kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Panoramic view of reduction works and copper mines, Globe, Ariz. Terr., ca 1898--99. [349kb Image from US National Archives]
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 The Mesabi Range. A panoramic view of the Shenango iron mine, ca. 1910. Beginning in 1892, the rich Mesabi Range in northern Minnesota was a major source of high--grade iron ore. [343kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Loading coal in the strip pits, Wilburton, Indian Terr. [Oklahoma], ca. 1898. [339kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Deadwood in 1876." General view of the Dakota Territory gold rush town from a hillside above. By S. J. Morrow. [283kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. The ground is strewn with boulders and detached masses of granite, which have fallen from the walls of Cottonwood Canyon. The quarrying consists of splitting up the blocks. 1872. [301kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Mining crew drifting for gold below discovery point, Deadwood, Dak. Terr. Bystanders pose for photographer S. J. Morrow, ca. 1876. [431kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Cleveland. The City of Oil Derricks." Panoramic view of an Oklahoma Territory town a year after the discovery of oil there. By Dick Man, 1905. [231kb Image from US National Archives]
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