Close up shot of a reagent feeder (a device that adds chemicals to flotation cells) at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Closeup of the machinery in the regrind plant in the old mill at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Interior of the mill building at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company Independence Mine. Photograph shows Charlie Porter with a container of mercury in his hand, in the process of adding mercury to the ball mill. Original photograph...
Interior shot of the living room of the superintendent's house at Independence Mine. A large stone fireplace dominates the far wall. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 3/4".
Interior shot showing two mill workers, Chuck Porter and Leonard Johnson, shoveling and bagging flotation cell concentrates at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Looking down at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's operation at Independence Mine. Photograph was taken from an adjacent property. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Looking down valley at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's operation at Independence Mine. Multiple mine buildings are spread across the hillside. Palmer is visible in the distance. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Photo caption reads "Carpenter Ez Rupe and Robin Montgomery looking over plans for superintendent's house." View of two men looking over the blueprints of for the new superintendent's house at it's construction site near the Independencs Mine.
Photo caption reads "Cook, Emil Schoop; flunky Joe Danish; pump man, Fagen." View is the interior of the kitchen at the Independence Mine with three men looking in from a doorway. One of the men is holding a large stack on plates and bowls. There...
Photo caption reads "Engineers Ned Nelson and Bob Keiberts sampling a vein in the shaft." View of two men taking samples from a vein somewhere underground in the Independence Mine. One man is using a hammer to remove small chunks of the rock and...
Photo caption reads "Gus Owen and Roy Lynch weighing a sponge to be sent to Anchorage. About $14,000." View of two men working the scales used to weigh the gold removed from the Independence Mine, Alaska. 1939.
Photo caption reads "Jack the barber digging his car out in the spring at the mine." View of Jack next to his car after digging it out from about 7 to 10 feet of snow.
Photo caption reads "Johnny Nelson, Aron Erickson beside new diesel engine, Oct. 1939." View of two men standing beside a huge diesel engine on a plank walkway.
Photo caption reads "Mrs. Dodson, mine foreman's mother, in the superintendent's house at Independence." View of a woman, with a magazine, sitting at a fireplace and petting a dog. There is a plant on the mantel. The mantel is made of a single...
Photo caption reads "Nelson surveying underground." View of Ned Nelson standing over the tracks at a split in the tunnels of the Independence Mine and surveying the left hand route. On the wall of the mineshaft are "FM", the number 490 repeated...
Photo caption reads "The 'cat' in front of the bunkhouse at Independence Mine." View of a tractor parked in front of the bunkhouse at the Independence Mine.
Photo shows a gold miner in Independence Mine clearing the debris pile left in a tunnel after blasting. He is holding a shovel full of ore, about to load it into the railroad car behind him. Another miner is partially visible. Independence Mine...
Photo shows a mine employee, Harry Rice, standing in the doorway of the powder house at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. He is holding a box labeled Explosives. The powder house is the building where mining...