Box Photo 0011.01
Container
Contains 130 Results:
Juragua Iron Company Mine Photographs, 1912-1914
Collection — Box: Photo 0011.01
Identifier: SC Photo-0011
Abstract
The Juragua Iron Company was the first American company to become interested in iron mining in Cuba. The mines were located in the province of Santiago at the eastern end of Cuba. The Santiago province climate is hot, but not affected by fevers or malaria. The company first went to Cuba in the early 1880s to begin iron ore mining. Its capital stock was controlled by the Bethlehem Iron Company of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Steel Company of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It...
Dates:
1912-1914
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
SC0011.01 Office. Black and White Photo, 4 ¾” x 6 ¾” (12 cm x 17cm), Album (12 men, one woman, one dog standing in front of two-story building with tile roof, palm trees).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 001
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection covers at least a two year period beginning with the title date of the album January 1, 1913 to August 1914 as noted on notations on some of the photographs. The collection is composed of 130 black and white or sepia photographs. Shown in the photos are many aspects of an iron ore mining operation and the landscape of the mining district in the Sierra Maestre Mountains in eastern Cuba. There is one personal postcard mailed from Panama addressed to Mrs. A. W. Gaumer, Firmeza,...
Dates:
1912-1914
SC0011.02 Recreation Club – Club House. Black and White Photo, 4 ¾” x 6 ¾” (12cm x 17 cm). Album (Three one-story buildings at base of hill).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 002
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection covers at least a two year period beginning with the title date of the album January 1, 1913 to August 1914 as noted on notations on some of the photographs. The collection is composed of 130 black and white or sepia photographs. Shown in the photos are many aspects of an iron ore mining operation and the landscape of the mining district in the Sierra Maestre Mountains in eastern Cuba. There is one personal postcard mailed from Panama addressed to Mrs. A. W. Gaumer, Firmeza,...
Dates:
1912-1914
SC0011.03 Hospital. Same as previous. (Low two-story building, seven men, one doctor, one nurse on veranda, picket fence across front yard, trees in background).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 003
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection covers at least a two year period beginning with the title date of the album January 1, 1913 to August 1914 as noted on notations on some of the photographs. The collection is composed of 130 black and white or sepia photographs. Shown in the photos are many aspects of an iron ore mining operation and the landscape of the mining district in the Sierra Maestre Mountains in eastern Cuba. There is one personal postcard mailed from Panama addressed to Mrs. A. W. Gaumer, Firmeza,...
Dates:
1912-1914
SC0011.04 Sulphur Ore Roasting Plant. Same as previous. (Seven men in photo around two conical smoke stacks above a large hopper structure, three railroad cars: J.I.C. 2185, J.I.C. 2115, J.I.C. 2061 car numbers).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 004
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection covers at least a two year period beginning with the title date of the album January 1, 1913 to August 1914 as noted on notations on some of the photographs. The collection is composed of 130 black and white or sepia photographs. Shown in the photos are many aspects of an iron ore mining operation and the landscape of the mining district in the Sierra Maestre Mountains in eastern Cuba. There is one personal postcard mailed from Panama addressed to Mrs. A. W. Gaumer, Firmeza,...
Dates:
1912-1914
SC0011.05 Ocaña Compressor Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. Same as previous. (Man with mustache standing by a large machine inside a building).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 005
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection covers at least a two year period beginning with the title date of the album January 1, 1913 to August 1914 as noted on notations on some of the photographs. The collection is composed of 130 black and white or sepia photographs. Shown in the photos are many aspects of an iron ore mining operation and the landscape of the mining district in the Sierra Maestre Mountains in eastern Cuba. There is one personal postcard mailed from Panama addressed to Mrs. A. W. Gaumer, Firmeza,...
Dates:
1912-1914
SC0011.06 East Mine. Same as previous. (Open pit mine: Level 1, Level 2 inked onto photo showing exposed rock and hillside with leafy trees).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 006
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection covers at least a two year period beginning with the title date of the album January 1, 1913 to August 1914 as noted on notations on some of the photographs. The collection is composed of 130 black and white or sepia photographs. Shown in the photos are many aspects of an iron ore mining operation and the landscape of the mining district in the Sierra Maestre Mountains in eastern Cuba. There is one personal postcard mailed from Panama addressed to Mrs. A. W. Gaumer, Firmeza,...
Dates:
1912-1914
SC0011.07 East Mine. Same as previous. (Open pit mine/quarry: Level 0, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 inked onto photo, exposed rock face, railroad track in foreground).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 007
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection covers at least a two year period beginning with the title date of the album January 1, 1913 to August 1914 as noted on notations on some of the photographs. The collection is composed of 130 black and white or sepia photographs. Shown in the photos are many aspects of an iron ore mining operation and the landscape of the mining district in the Sierra Maestre Mountains in eastern Cuba. There is one personal postcard mailed from Panama addressed to Mrs. A. W. Gaumer, Firmeza,...
Dates:
1912-1914
SC0011.08 East Mine. (Open pit deep quarry: Level 0, Level 1, Level 2 inked onto photo, huge rock pile in foreground, trees on hillside).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 008
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection covers at least a two year period beginning with the title date of the album January 1, 1913 to August 1914 as noted on notations on some of the photographs. The collection is composed of 130 black and white or sepia photographs. Shown in the photos are many aspects of an iron ore mining operation and the landscape of the mining district in the Sierra Maestre Mountains in eastern Cuba. There is one personal postcard mailed from Panama addressed to Mrs. A. W. Gaumer, Firmeza,...
Dates:
1912-1914
SC0011.09 East Mine. (Deep quarry, railroad ore cars in middle of photo, standing man at lower left side above man is inked: Level 1, Level 2 inked beneath railroad cars; Level 3 inked above light colored rock face at base of rubble; Level 4 inked upper center of photo beneath sparsely foliaged hilltop trees)
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 009
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection covers at least a two year period beginning with the title date of the album January 1, 1913 to August 1914 as noted on notations on some of the photographs. The collection is composed of 130 black and white or sepia photographs. Shown in the photos are many aspects of an iron ore mining operation and the landscape of the mining district in the Sierra Maestre Mountains in eastern Cuba. There is one personal postcard mailed from Panama addressed to Mrs. A. W. Gaumer, Firmeza,...
Dates:
1912-1914