2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/7997This 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.Date scanned: 2001-03-07.Identifier: NMHFM-82.Unmounted; text on paper attached to verso.Held in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum.Donor: Art Roth.The 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.Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.htmlCornwall Ore Bank CompanyIron mines and miningMinersAnimals, draftOpen pit miningVehiclesStillImage