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dc.date1880?
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:57:09Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:25:48Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:57:09Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:25:48Z
dc.identifierlibimagesNMHFM82
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/7997
dc.descriptionThis photo, taken about 1880, indicates the simple pick-and-shovel mining methods employed to extract iron ore from the Cornwall open pit mine at that time. In the 1880s, the mine was operated by the Cornwall Ore Banks [sic] Company. From: Bethlehem Mines Corporation, Cornwall, Pennsylvania. Photo No. 60311A-1 372030-H.
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2001-03-07.
dc.descriptionIdentifier: NMHFM-82.
dc.descriptionUnmounted; text on paper attached to verso.
dc.descriptionHeld in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum.
dc.descriptionDonor: Art Roth.
dc.description.abstractThe Cornwall mines were a series of shallow open pit iron mines near the town of Cornwall, Pennsylvania. They were started in the early 1740s to exploit the Cornwall Ore Banks, one of the greatest known iron ore deposits in the country at the time. The Cornwall Iron Furnace cast cannon for the Revolutionary War from these deposits. The mines were owned by the Cornwall Ore Banks Company and later the Bethlehem Steel Company. This photograph shows miners posing at the edge of the pit and others (including two African Americans) at the bottom of the pit along with two wagons.
dc.description.sponsorshipSponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
dc.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
dc.rightsRights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html
dc.subjectCornwall Ore Bank Company
dc.subjectIron mines and mining
dc.subjectMiners
dc.subjectAnimals, draft
dc.subjectOpen pit mining
dc.subjectVehicles
dc.titleCornwall open pit mine
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionBethlehem Mines Corp.
dc.contributor.institutionColorado Digitization Project
dc.contributor.institutionNational Mining Hall of Fame and Museum


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