View of a miner and his pack burro. The miner wears overalls and a coat, and smokes a pipe. The burro is loaded with a bed-roll, shovel, pickaxe, coffee pot, and frying pan.
Gold miners use a pan and churn for hydraulic placer mining, in the Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska), Alaska. A man has a knife on his belt; a woman wears a bow.
Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Alaska--Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Alaska--Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)--1890-1900.; Mining equipment--Alaska--Yukon River Valley...
Men pan or dig for gold in the water, Denver County, Colorado, at (possibly) a hydraulic placer mining class; cars and adobe houses are in the background.
Miners use a gold pan and sluice for hydraulic gold placer mining, in Rockerville, Pennington County, South Dakota. They are: Spriggs, Lamb (by dog), and Dillon.
Men and women pose near a placer mining operation in San Miguel County, Colorado. One man holds a gold pan. Miners aim a nozzle or monitor at the mine pit nearby.
San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Women--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.
View of two miners in front of a hewn log cabin, possibly in Summit County, Colorado. One of the men has a placer pan in his hands and sits near the front door of the cabin. The other man sits on a wooden bridge fishing.
A miner and a boy pose between a sluice with a grinding wheel and a cabin on Saint Peter's Grade near Home, Larimer County, Colorado. The man wears an ammunition belt and holds a gold pan.
Home (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--Home--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Home--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Home--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Home--1880-1900.
Jess Knight, owner of the Elephant Eagle Mine, Chris Anderson, and N. W. pose near a sluice near Mojave, California. Jess Knight holds a pan with gold amalgam in it.
A man fishes on probably the Fryingpan River in Eagle County, Colorado.
Eagle County (Colo.)--DATES.; Frying Pan Creek (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Fishing--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Streams--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.
Men sit on top of two stagecoaches and stand outside the J.J. Harris & Company mercantile store in Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado, one man carries a mining pan.
Prospectors sit and stand near two tents in Cunningham Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado. Shows sacks of provisions, a cooking pan, a pot, a shovel and a pick.
San Juan County (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Camping--Colorado--San Juan County--1870-1880.; Miners--Colorado--San Juan County--1870-1880.; Mining--Colorado--San Juan County--1870-1880.
Women lean over wash tub sinks in the laundry room at Overland Park in the Overland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The women wear work dresses and aprons as they scrub clothing on wash boards. A pan full of wet, clean clothes is at the foot of...
Interior view of a miner's home; includes two men playing cards at table and a miner stretched out on cot; shows wooden framework of house, shelving, wood stove, cooking utensils and gold pan.
View of a hewn log residence, Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado; features a board and corrugated metal roof with a pipe smoke stack and a leaning ladder; metal buckets, cans, wash tub, gold pan and wooden crates on a...
Charles L. Palmer, one of the first white people born in Jefferson County, Colorado, and the Sioux, Chief Big Snake pose at the dedication of a Arapahoe City marker. Chief Big Snake dressed in full regalia with a feather headdress and finged...
Arapahoe City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Monuments & memorials--Colorado--Arapahoe City--1940-1950.; Plaques--Colorado--Arapahoe City--1940-1950.
View of stagecoaches and passengers on the main street in Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado. A man on horseback packs a rifle, gold pan, and shovel. Men stand in front of a storefront with a sign that reads: "J.J. Harris & Co."
View of stagecoaches and passengers on the main street in Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado. A man on horseback packs a rifle, gold pan, and shovel. Men stand in front of a storefront with a sign that reads: "J.J. Harris & Co."
View of stagecoach and passengers on the main street in Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado. A passenger holds a gold pan. Men stand in front of a storefront with a sign that reads: "J.J. Harris & Co."
A man and woman prepare a meal in the back of their camper at Rocky Mountain Lake Park in the Berkeley neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The grill and cooking utensils sit on a drawer that slides under the truck. A dog sniffs at a platter of corn,...
Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Rocky Mountain Lake Park (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Camping--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Couples--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Outdoor cookery--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.;...
View of a Colorado Midland Railway Company train at Hell Gap (Hell Gate) in Pitkin County, Colorado. Boulders and trees are nearby.
Colorado Midland Railway Company--1880-1900.; Hell Gap (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Pitkin County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--Pitkin County--1880-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Pitkin County--1880-1900.
View of a Gay Dutchess club (The Gay Dutchess) picnic shows a group of African American (Black) men and women gathered around a picnic table at a park in the mountains near Denver, Colorado. Everyone is dressed in summer clothes, with light...
Gay Dutchess, The (Denver, Colo.)--1950-1970.; African Americans--Organizations--Colorado--1950-1970.; Clubs--Colorado--1950-1970.; Families--Colorado--1950-1970.; Picnics--Colorado--1950-1970.
Miners pose with tools in Miners Basin in the La Sal Mountains (Grand County), Utah. Shows pickaxes, a rifle, a shovel, a metal pan, and trees.
Grand County (Utah)--1890-1900.; La Sal Mountains (Utah)--1890-1900.; Miners Basin (Grand County, Utah : Valley)--1890-1900.; Miners--Utah--Grand County--1890-1900.; Mining--Utah--Grand County--1890-1900.; Trees--Utah--Grand County--1890-1900.
A gold miner squats and dips water from a stream identified as Miners Creek in Miners Basin in the La Sal Mountains, Grand County, Utah. A man with a shovel and a man with a pick are near the creek. Shows a gold washing pan.
Grand County (Utah)--1890-1900.; Miners Basin (Grand County, Utah : Valley)--1890-1900.; Gold miners--Utah--Grand County--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Utah--Grand County--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Utah--Grand County--1890-1900.; Mining--Utah--Grand...
Miners, one with a shovel, watch a man pan for gold in Miners Basin in the La Sal Mountains, Grand County, Utah. A sign reads, "Miners Basin, Utah, 300 D[?] Ore." Shows a horse and a meadow.
Grand County (Utah)--1890-1900.; Miners Basin (Grand County, Utah : Valley)--1890-1900.; Gold miners--Utah--Grand County--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Utah--Grand County--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Utah--Grand County--1890-1900.;...
Cottonwood Placer Company men stand and sit on a riffle box (sluice) in front of a cabin in Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado, with picks, a shovel, and a gold washing pan. Sign reads: "Klondykers."
A boy sits in front of Buckeye Cabin in the La Sal Mountains, Utah. A sign reads, "Assay Office Buckeye Cabin." On a table are reagent bottles, a box of assay weights, a beaker, test tubes, glass-stoppered acid bottles, evaporating dishes, and a...
Assaying apparatus--Utah--1890-1900.; La Sal Mountains (Utah)--1890-1900.; Boys--Utah--1890-1900.; Equipment--Utah--1890-1900.; Log Cabins--Utah--1890-1900.
Nine men and one boy of probably the Cottonwood Placer Company stand and sit in front of a building and hold weapons in Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado. Weapons include: a Sharp's double barrel shotgun, a Winchester M1873 carbine, and a...
View of Palace Butte and a camp beside the Middle Fork West Fork Gallatin River in Gallatin County, Montana. Men sit near saddled horses and a tent in a meadow. A man leans beside a river and holds a metal pan.
Gallatin County (Mont.)--1870-1880.; Gallatin River, Middle Fork, West Fork (Mont.)--1870-1880.; Camping--Montana--Gallatin County--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Montana--Gallatin County--1870-1880.; Horses--Montana--Gallatin...