Magma Copper Company Photographs

Collection

Identifier: CP SPC 136

Scope and Content Note

This collection houses 163 silver gelatin-chloride prints and 17 silver gelatin Cirkut panoramas documenting the Magma Copper Company's smelter in Superior, Arizona. Among the scenes depicted are land at the 2810 elevation, the main yard, the engine house, the approach track to the receiving bins, the oil storage tanks, the bedding bins, the machine shop, the warehouse, the crushing plant, the reverberatories, the converter aisle and building, the roster plant, the slag tunnel, the power plant, the filter plants, the cottrell plant, the stack foundation, the cooling pond and dam, the gravel dump trestle, the tailings pond bridge, the transfer station, the junction house conveyors, and the brick plant.

Dates

Creation: 1922-1923

Creator

Magma Copper Company (Organization)

Language of Materials

Material in English

Access Restrictions

To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Tuesday through Thursday, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.

Copyright

Arizona State University does not own copyright to this collection. Distinctive Collections recognizes that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.

Historical Note

William Boyce Thompson purchased the Silver Queen Mine (located near Superior, Arizona) and founded the Magma Copper Company in 1910. The mine converted production from silver to copper and explored and developed a number of high-grade copper veins. By the end of World War I, the company's mine was one of Arizona's greatest bonanza mines. The mine was closed in 1971.

Full extent

1 Box(es)

Full extent

0.4 Linear Feet

Additional description

Abstract

This collection houses 163 silver gelatin-chloride prints and 17 silver gelatin Cirkut panoramas documenting the Magma Copper Company's smelter in Superior, Arizona.