Photograph album with photographs taken by an unidentified photographer of mining town Ajo, Arizona, 1917-1918. Depicted are copper mining operations at the New Cornelia mine, as well as identified men and women. 9 photographs are attributed to Hadsell Foto; "Hadsell" himself appears in multiple photographs
Description:
Captions in English., Title from front cover., and Place of creation and date from front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Arizona., and Ajo (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Hadsell Foto.
Subject (Topic):
Copper miners, Copper mines and mining, and Mines and mineral resources
Photographs of copper and gold mining activities, camps and miners in Nevada and California, and of a trail ride through the Grand Canyon in Arizona. In Nevada there are views of the Mohawk Mine in Goldfield, the J. R. Crawford Copper Mine and camp near Schurz, and the boom town of Rawhide, Photographs of California include views of Mt. Grant, Mt. Wilson, the San Gabriel Range of the Sierra Nevada Mountains along the Arroyo Seco, and the Tarantula Mine, There are also photographic and photomechanical postcards, many in color, depicting Donner Lake, Sonora, Sacremento and San Francisco in California, and views of Reno and the mining towns of Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada. A double-postcard depicts a panoramic view of the Truckee River and dam. Two postcards are addressed to J. Randall Crawford at the Princeton Club in New York and a third is addressed to Mrs. J. R. Crawford in England, and J. R. Crawford is present in many of the photographs, including an interior view of the Tarantula Mine eight hundred feet below the surface
Description:
Detailed manuscript captions are in the hand of J.R. Crawford. Several photographs and all of the postcards are views by commercial photographers in Nevada and California (Kennedy, Larson, Mitchell, Owens, Rieder, and Weidner). and Jack Randall Crawford received his B.S. and M.A. from Princeton University (1901, 1903). From 1909 to 1946 he was an Associate Professor of English at Yale University.
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada., California., Goldfield (Nev.), Reno (Nev.), Ragtown (Nev.), Tonopah (Nev.), Nevada, Sierra Madre Mountains (Calif.), California, and Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Crawford, Jack Randall, 1878- and Tarantula Mine (Calif.)
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Copper mines and mining, and Mines and mineral resources
A group of thirty-nine autograph letters, signed, sent from James Dunn, a solicitor in Tolgus, Cornwall, to Samuel Percivall in Bath and Bristol, England, keeping him updated on the affairs concerning the Pendarves estate in Camborne, Cornwall. The letters contain many references to copper and tin mining at the Pendarves mines and elsewhere, as well as local news and gossip, reports on Pendarves House and its gardens, and on the activities of family and friends. Dunn acted as Percivall's agent and accountant, managing tenancies and looking after the library and wine cellar. There are also references to members of the Hoblyn family, including the politician and book collector Robert Hoblyn (1710-1756), who was the stepson of Grace Percivall's brother William Pendarves. While the letters were externally addressed to Samuel Percivall, internally their contents address both Samuel and Grace Percivall; some make references to the fossillary, or grotto, that Grace Percivall had created at Pendarves
Description:
James Dunn (died 1773) was a solicitor in Tolgus, a village in the parish of Redruth, in west Cornwall, England., Samuel Percivall (died 1760) of Bristol, England, was associated in the copper business with his brother Joseph Percivall (died 1764). In 1734 Joseph Percivall entered a partnership with Thomas Coster (1684-1739) and Robert Coster (1697-1735) in several of the Coster family mines surrounding Bristol and in southern Wales; after the death of Thomas Coster, the concern was known as Joseph Percivall and Copper Company. Samuel Percivall married Grace Pendarves Coster (1696-1763) in Camborne, Cornwall, on October 28, 1736., Grace Pendarves Coster Percivall (1696-1763) was the daughter of Thomas Pendarves (1645-1703) and Grace Hoblyn Pendarves (1662-1735) of Pendarves House, Camborne, Cornwall, England. Her first husband was Robert Coster (1697-1735), the youngest son in the copper-smelting Coster family of Bristol, England; her brother Sir William Pendarves (1690-1728) was a partner with Robert Coster in the Hayle smelting works. Upon her brother's death, Grace Coster inherited Pendarves House and estate; in 1736 she married Samuel Percivall., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, Camborne., and Camborne (England)
Backed with linen. Manuscript annotations on map. Manuscript title on verso: Copper Harbour & Eagle Harbour. From the Richard H. Rickard Papers. and In upper left corner: 59.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified],
Subject (Geographic):
Keweenaw County (Mich.)--Maps. and Michigan--Keweenaw County
Subject (Name):
Delaware Mining Company of Michigan--Maps., Friend, Norman M., approximately 1815-, Pennsylvania Mining Company of Michigan--Maps., and Rickard, Richard H.,---1885--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Copper mines and mining, Copper mines and mining--Michigan--Keweenaw County--Maps., Landowners, Landowners--Michigan--Keweenaw County--Maps., Mines and mineral resources, and Mines and mineral resources--
Photograph album with images attributed to Elsie Holmes and William H. Holmes that document the ranching operations of the Cananea Cattle Company at the Cananea Ranch and the copper mining operations of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, primarily 1911-1914. William Cornell Greene, a rancher, mine owner, and investor, had established and operated both of these ventures during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. William Holmes was a ranch foreman at the Cananea Ranch, Images of ranching activities include cowboys and ranchers riding horses, herding cattle, lassoing livestock, branding steers, eating around a chuck wagon, and competing in rodeos at locations on the Cananea Ranch, including corrals located in Moreta and San Juan, and a ranch house in Nogales. Images of identified cowboys and ranchers include Roy Adams, Arthur Dunbar, Dick Hays, William H. Holmes, Cal Musgrave, Sherman Rinehart, E. T. Strickland, Fred Walker, and Sam Watson, in addition to a division foreman, Donald G. Valentine, and Charles Wright, the corral boss of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company. Several men and horses are identified in images by their nicknames. Other images depict women wearing cowboy and ranch clothing, and include Elsie Holmes and Midge Burrows, and Miss Hacker of Cornado, Calif. An image shows a man tanning a mountain lion hide, Views of copper smelting operations for the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, include images of ore bins, smelters, shops, and railroad yard. Several images show a crowd of Mexican miners awaiting a conference with James S. "Rawhide Jimmy" Douglas, Jr., the general manager of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company during a strike in April 1913. An additional image shows a group of men that includes Harry Gooding, after installing a steam turbine in the powerhouse at Cananea, ca. 1905, Images of locations in the city of Cananea include the Hotel Alexandria, Sonora Hotel, and city jail. Images of people in Cananea include a view of men in conversation on a street, with one of the men identified as George Wiswall, general manager of the Cananea Cattle Company, and the other man the revolutionary general, Alvaro Obregón; Thomas Keys driving an automobile; and a studio portrait of a Chinese man, identified as "Lee from the Hotel Alexandria" posed sitting in an automobile, and A series of images relate to the Mexican revolution including images of revolutionary troops, military installations, casualties, and dead federal soldiers at Cananea, Naco and Agua Prieta, Sonora. Several images show machine guns and artillery outside the machine shop of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, which Maderista revolutionaries under the command of General Alvaro Obregón had captured from General Pedro Ojeda at Naco, Sonora in April 1913
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Leather binding embossed with the initials "E. H." and a geometric design., Individual photographic prints are 20.2 x 25.2 cm. and smaller, accompanied by manuscript captions., and Captions inscribed in some negatives.
