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.
View of Gus Owen pulling a crucible from the Independence Mine, Alaska assay furnace. From caption: "Gus Owen pulling crucible from assay furnace." 1939.
View of 275 horsepower Atlas diesel engine directly connected to 200 kw alternator installed in 1940 at Independence Mine power plant house near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. 1948.
View of B.A. "Tony" Wickstrom and his rebuilt "old" mill on the site of the earlier Martin mill at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. The mill burned to the ground early in 1941. Fall 1940.
View of Bill Stoll and Robin Montgomery acting up at Independence tent camp near the old mill site near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. July 1936.
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 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".
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...
View of the diesel oil tanks at Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. Mine buildings and tailings piles are partially visible in the background. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Title taken from caption. View of the diesel oil tanks and stacks of logs in the foreground and the bunkhouse of the Independence Mine in the background. In the very back of the photo is a new building being constructed, three workers can be seen...
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 shows Fagen, a mine worker, checking a sump pump in Independence Mine. A container labelled "Prestone Antifreeze" is visible in the shot. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
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".
View of one of two four-cell flotation machine banks in the mill at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. Gold-bearing bulk sulphide concentrates from these machines were dewatered, sacked, and shipped for smelting to the...
View of machinery in the 2000-level portal shops at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. To the right of the photo is a compressed air driven forging machine used for forming and sharpening integral drill steels and to the...