Lead - Zinc mining Miami, Oklahoma, 1909 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Lead - Zinc mining Miami, Oklahoma, 1909, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of lead and zinc mining and concentrating plants near Miami, Oklahoma
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Lead - Zinc mining Miami, Oklahoma, 1909
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Miami, in the northeast corner of Oklahoma, sat at the center of the Tri-State lead and zinc district in 1909, just two years after Oklahoma became a state in 1907. The town's economy rested on ore dug from shallow workings across Ottawa County, and the mining boom had drawn miners and merchants from neighboring Missouri and Kansas. Mills crushed and concentrated the ore, and the sending of finished product out by rail tied the district to larger markets. The chat piles of waste rock left behind by milling were a familiar sight around town. For the men who worked the diggings, Miami was known first as a mining camp, and its growth depended on how well the lead and zinc sold.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | vinnemeier, gerhard |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Oklahoma |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 969 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of lead and zinc mining and concentrating plants near Miami, Oklahoma |
| Reference | OK 1909 Lead - Zinc mining Miami |
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