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Tag Archives: Mining History
AHC and Grand Encampment Museum Unite to Share Lora Webb Nichols’s Remarkable Wyoming Archive
Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962) was a prolific diarist and photographer who lived most of her life in southcentral Wyoming. She accumulated more than 24,000 negatives, representing the many shades of life in the frontier mining town of Encampment. Today, the … Continue reading
Posted in Collections Highlights, Photography, Uncategorized, Wyoming history
Tagged copper mining, Diaries, early Wyoming, Encampment, Frontier photography, Grand Encampment Museum, homesteaders, Lora Webb Nichols, Lora Webb Nichols Papers, Medicine Bow National Forest, Mining History, Nancy F. Anderson, Sierra Madre Mountains, Women photographers
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Glimpses into the Iron Ore Mining Past of Sunrise, Wyoming
The Sunrise Mine and Town Site Photo Album offers a look at operations at the Sunrise Iron Ore Mine and the town of Sunrise, Wyoming, from 1899 to 1920. Sunrise, Wyoming, was a company mining town, founded in 1899 by … Continue reading
Posted in Digital collections, Economic Geology, found in the archive, Local history, mining history, Photographic collections, Uncategorized, Western history, Wyoming history
Tagged Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Company Towns, Iron Ore Mining, Mining History, Mining Towns, Photography, Sunrise, Wyoming history
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