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[Hoisting ore & lowering miners, Lead Homestake Mine] – Historic Print

[Hoisting ore & lowering miners, Lead Homestake Mine], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Hoisting ore & lowering miners, Lead Homestake Mine], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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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[Hoisting ore & lowering miners, Lead Homestake Mine]

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Few American mines matched the Homestake, which worked gold-bearing rock beneath Lead in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This view captures the daily traffic of its shafts, with ore being hoisted up and miners being lowered down. The glass negative dates from between 1900 and 1910, when the Detroit Publishing Company was selling photographs of mines, towns and scenery to a national market. Scenes like this one show the machinery and labor that kept the mine running, and they offer a useful record of working life at the turn of the century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043177. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan789 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70156

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