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Copper mines and mining -- Arizona -- Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections or records:

Mary Billingsley Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: CP SPC 93
Abstract

This collection houses commercial postcards depicting the Morenci Southern Railway's Loop 1 trestle bridge, the Arizona Copper Company's concentrator, and an oblique aerial view of miners' houses on Longfellow Hill; gelatin-chloride photographic prints showing a group of soldiers with an Arizona banner at Camp Perry; a gelatin-chloride photographic print depicting a giant saguaro with bird holes; and a photograph of Arizona's 1915 basketball champions.

Dates: 1911-1919

Los Mineros Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MP SPC 186
Abstract

This collection documents the lives of Mexican and Mexican-American copper miners in the Clifton-Morenci area who worked in the Phelps Dodge Copper Mine and their efforts to form a union between 1900 and 1950.

Dates: circa 1910-1950