[Photographs of the Black Butte Mine].

Description

Title: [Photographs of the Black Butte Mine].
Contributor: Lange, Edward, 1846-1912, artist.
Published / Created: [1910-1920]
Publication Place: Lane County, Oregon
Abstract: Photographs compiled by an unidentified compiler of the Black Butte Mine in Lane County, Oregon, 1910-1920. Depicted are the mining camp and unidentified miners in mines or at mine shaft entrances. The only photograph with a caption is of an illustration done by artist Edward Lange of the Black Butte Mining District
Description: The Black Butte Mine, a mercury mine in Lane County, Oregon, was in operation from the 1890s until the late 1960s.
Caption in English.
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Provenance: Purchased from Michael D. Heaston on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2016.
Extent: 13 photographs : photographs 20 x 26 cm on mounts 28 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Photographs
Material: black and white prints ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Oregon.
Oregon
Lane County (Or.)
Subject (Name): Lange, Edward, 1846-1912.
Black Butte Mine.
Subject (Topic): Mercury
Mercury mines and mining
Miners
Mines and mineral resources
Mining camps
Subjects: Lange, Edward, 1846-1912
Black Butte Mine
Mercury > Oregon
Mercury mines and mining > Oregon > Pictorial works
Miners > Oregon > Pictorial works
Mines and mineral resources > Oregon > Pictorial works
Mining camps > Oregon > Pictorial works
Lane County (Or.) > Pictorial works
Oregon > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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Citation: Photographs of the Black Butte Mine. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.