Lead Panoramic view, South Dakota, 1901 – Vintage Photo Print
(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 Panoramic view, South Dakota, 1901, 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]
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Lead Panoramic view, South Dakota, 1901
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Lead, in the Black Hills of western South Dakota, was a gold mining town in 1901, and its economy rested almost entirely on the Homestake mine, which had been opened in 1876 after prospectors followed the gold rush into the hills. The mine was among the largest gold producers in the country, and it drew a large population of miners, mill workers, and their families to a town squeezed onto steep slopes above Whitewood Creek. Mining work was hard and dangerous, and the company's shafts and mill shaped nearly every part of daily life, from where houses could be built to when shifts changed. Nearby Deadwood, with its own gold history, was the better-known name in the region, but Lead's mine was the one that kept working through the decades that followed.
| Created / published | 1901 |
|---|---|
| Creator | curtis, clinton deforest |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Dakota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 931 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Panoramic view of Lead] |
| Reference | SD 1901 Lead Panoramic view |
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