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Photo, Print, Drawing Mining operations and abandoned older mining equipment, Butte, Montana

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Title

  • Mining operations and abandoned older mining equipment, Butte, Montana

Names

  • Crummett, Michael, 1948- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Butte, Montana, August 27, 1979 - August 29, 1979

Headings

  • -  Signs and signboards
  • -  Copper mines and mining
  • -  Spoil banks
  • -  Mining machinery
  • -  Central business districts
  • -  Mural painting and decoration
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Montana -- Butte

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Index data: Image numbers, descriptions: mining scenes at ARCO's Anaconda Copper Berkeley Pit in Butte MT: 1, mammoth dump truck hauls a load of ore to the top of Berkeley Pit; 2-3, dump truck unloads spoils at the portion of the pit that they are filling in; 4-5, water forms a stream from dewatered aquifers and leaches out the copper salts from the ore-laden soil; 6-7, pools of "copper water" that have formed; 8-10, Berkeley Pit with part of Butte and Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Mountains in the background; 11-14, old tunnel-mining cars used to haul the ore when the mining was underground; scenes of Butte MT: 15-17, an old tunnel-mining car in a front yard, now serving as a flower box; 18-19, the historic M&M Bar and Cafe in downtown Butte; 20, sign painted on building, "Creamery Cafe - Booths for Ladies."

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/005: MT9-MC33

Source Collection

  • Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Crummett, Michael. Mining operations and abandoned older mining equipment, Butte, Montana. United States Butte Montana, 1979. Butte, Montana, - August 29, 1979. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_mc33/.

APA citation style:

Crummett, M. (1979) Mining operations and abandoned older mining equipment, Butte, Montana. United States Butte Montana, 1979. Butte, Montana, - August 29, 1979. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_mc33/.

MLA citation style:

Crummett, Michael. Mining operations and abandoned older mining equipment, Butte, Montana. Butte, Montana, - August 29, 1979. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_mc33/>.