DescriptionA burro-drawn wagon hauling lumber and supplies into Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1904 (CHS-5424).jpg | English: - A burro-drawn wagon hauling lumber and supplies into Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1904
- Photograph of a burro-drawn wagon hauling lumber and supplies into Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1904. A pack of 20 burros, adjoined with harnesses, pull two wagons fully loaded with lumber and other supplies. Its drivers, two men on horses, follow closely by its side to gear the burros. Other burro carts or wagons are heading in the same direction. At left is a single story building displaying signs that read: "Goldfield Nevada Exploration Co." and "the Orlanda rooms". At left are other houses, buildings or stores that line the street. Numerous tents are visible in the distance near the base of the mountain (or hill?) just beyond the buildings on the right.; "In 1902 gold was discovered in the hills near Tonopah, Nevada. Soon a few tents dotted the barren hills among the Joshua trees, and the boomtown of Goldfield was born. In 1903 only 36 people lived in the new town. By 1908 Goldfield was Nevada's largest city, with over 25,000 inhabitants. Along with the influx of miners and businessmen, came the labor unions. The Western Federation of Miners, the Industrial Workers of the World and the American Federation of Labor all vied for power in the region. During the early years, the unions were able to control wages and working hours. But in November, 1906, the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company was incorporated by owners George Wingfield and United States Senator George Nixon, signaling the beginning of monopoly control in Goldfield, and the start of an adversarial relationship between mine owners and the unions." -- unknown author.
- Call number: CHS-5424
- Photographer:
creator QS:P170,Q61995887 :Filename: CHS-5424 - Coverage date: circa 1904
- Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
- Format: glass plate negatives
- Type: images
- Geographic subject (city or populated place): Goldfield
- Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
- Accession number: 5424
- Microfiche number: 1-155-; 1-113-6
- Archival file: chs_Volume99/CHS-5424.tiff
- Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
- Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
- Geographic subject (country): USA
- Format (aacr2): 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
- Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
- Subject (adlf): mine sites
- Project: USC
- Repository email: [email protected]
- Contributing entity: California Historical Society
- Date created: circa 1904
- Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
- Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
- Geographic subject (state): Nevada
- Subject (file heading): Mining -- Out of state -- Nevada -- Goldfield; Nevada -- General
- Legacy record ID: chs-m17368; USC-1-1-1-14218
- Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
- Geographic subject (county): Esmeralda
- Subject (lcsh): Mines and mineral resources
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