117 results for: Mining
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Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons in boxing match, Shelby, Montana, July 4, 1923
Jack "The Manassa Mauler" Dempsey was the Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919 to 1926. He originated from the small mining town of Manassa, Colorado. His career began unofficially as he traveled around the West by hopping freight trains and challenging the miners and lumbermen to barroom brawls using the name "Kid Blackie." Beating the giant, Jess Willard, in…
ID Number:1983.10.260.2
Date:1923
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Electric hauling motor at New Black Diamond Mine, circa 1927
By the late 1920s, electric hauling motors had replaced mules for getting coal out of mines in the Cascade Mountains. Engines were attached to the electric line by means of a boom similar to those seen today on top of Seattle's electric-powered buses.This photo shows an electric-powered mining train coming out of the New Black Diamond Mine at Black Diamond.…
ID Number:1983.10.647.1
Date:Circa 1927
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Coal bunkers at New Black Diamond Mine, March 1, 1927
In 1927, the Pacific Coast Coal Company opened its new Indian Mine at Black Diamond, Washington. The mine had large state-of-the-art bunkers where the lumps of coal were separated from rocks and then sorted. The coal then passed through a series of screens which separated it into different grades. The building was designed so that railroad cars could be pulled…
ID Number:1983.10.647.2
Date:1927
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Miner Ted Rousse at New Black Diamond Mine, circa 1927
Coal miners at Black Diamond came from many different countries. The largest groups came from Wales and Italy, but miners also came from Poland, Scandinavia, Germany, Yugoslavia, and other European countries. Some, like the Welsh, had done mining before, but many had not.In this photo, taken in the late 1920s, Black Diamond miner Ted Rousse stands outside the New Black…
ID Number:1983.10.647.4
Date:Circa 1927
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Man panning for gold at Blewett Pass, Washington, circa 1919
Around 1860, gold was discovered on Ingalls Creek, near Blewett Pass in Washington's Wenatchee Mountains. This started a gold rush to the area. Over the next fifty years, Blewett district mines produced about $1.7 million of gold. Even years later, people continued to try their luck in the area.This photo shows a man panning for gold in a stream near…
ID Number:1983.10.2992.7
Date:Circa 1919
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Great Western Iron and Steel Company, Kirkland, circa 1892
In 1888, Seattle investors convinced British industrialist Peter Kirk to open a steel mill in Kirkland, named in his honor. They hoped that the Moss Bay Iron and Steel Works, reorganized in 1890 as the Great Western Iron and Steel Company, would turn Kirkland into the Pittsburgh of the West. The city boomed as speculators subdivided land and built substantial…
ID Number:1983.10.6113
Date:Circa 1892
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Talbot Coal Company wharf and Yesler's Wharf, 1878
In the 1870s, coal from Renton was shipped from Seattle to San Francisco. Steamers loaded with coal on the trip south returned to Seattle filled with goods for the growing city.This photo, taken around 1878, shows the pier at the Talbot Coal Company's Seattle yard. The Talbot coal pier was just one of several coal docks at the Seattle waterfront…
ID Number:1983.10.6141
Date:1878
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Bunkers and wharves at the Pacific Coast Coal Company, 1911
Railroad cars carried coal from the mines east of Lake Washington to the Seattle waterfront. The coal was offloaded and stored in bunkers. Then it was loaded onto ships bound for ports in Alaska or California.In this photo, taken in 1911, a railroad car filled with coal sits at the end of the dock at the Pacific Coast Coal Company…
ID Number:1983.10.6872.1
Date:1911
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View of Enumclaw, Washington, circa 1905
Enumclaw, Washington, is located on the plateau between the Green and White Rivers. The town was platted in 1884, and the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad came through in 1885. Enumclaw quickly became a boomtown of lumber mills and farms. Residents supplied timber and produce to the nearby mining towns of Black Diamond and Franklin.This photo shows a view of…
ID Number:1983.10.7423
Date:Circa 1905
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Kirkland from Lake Washington, 1906
In 1888, Seattle investors convinced British industrialist Peter Kirk to open a steel mill in Kirkland, named in his honor. They hoped that the Moss Bay Iron and Steel Works, reorganized in 1890 as the Great Western Iron and Steel Company, would turn Kirkland into the Pittsburgh of the West. The city boomed as speculators subdivided land and built substantial…
ID Number:1983.10.7887
Date:1906