Box Photo 0011.01
Container
Contains 130 Results:
SC0011.73 No Caption. Same as previous. (Landscape view of hilly countryside, trees in foreground in middle are rock ledges cut into hillside. Some brown spots).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 073
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
SC0011.74 No Caption. Same as previous. (Landscape of quarry, leafy tree in center of photo next to lose rock terrace, railroad at lower left of photo, rock ledges with ore cars, shovel, buildings, bank of clouds over mountains).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 074
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
SC0011.75 Same as previous. (Landscape of hillside with quarry cut into rock, leafy trees on hillside, shovel on upper level).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 075
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
SC0011.76 Same as previous. (Landscape view of iron quarry of multiple levels, railroad track with car in foreground, five levels of rock ledges each with railroad cars or steam shovel. Brown stain).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 076
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
SC0011.77 Same as previous. (Landscape view of iron mine, right corner of photo are leafy trees and shrubs, center of photo huge ore pile, left side a chute, distant mountain range).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 077
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
SC0011.78 No Caption. Sepia colored photo. Same dimensions. (Landscape view of hill with exposed rock face. Brown stain).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 078
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
SC0011.79 No Caption. Black and White. Same dimensions. (Landscape view of railroad track with three ore cars at bottom of quarry pit, monolith rock at left, scattered trees at top. Few brown spots).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 079
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
SC0011.80 Same as previous. (High landscape view of open pit quarry, double set of railroad tracks in foreground, right pair of track extends toward center with five ore cars on third level. Brown stain).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 080
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
SC0011.81 Same as previous. (Overhead landscape view of quarry pit, five sets of tracks on bottom of pit, railroad track in foreground has loaded ore car, other railroad tracks have total of three ore cars, in upper right is ore car and shovel digging into rock face, at left is man standing by railroad track above a tunnel entrance. Brown stain).
Item — Box: Photo 0011.01, Item: 081
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
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