File:DETAIL VIEW OF AERIAL TRAM SUPPORT TOWERS THREE AND FOUR, LOOKING NORTHWEST. - Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA HAER CA-291-18.tif

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DETAIL VIEW OF AERIAL TRAM SUPPORT TOWERS THREE AND FOUR, LOOKING NORTHWEST. - Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA
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Archimede, Gianfranco

Related names:

National Park Service; Albright, Horace; Mather, Stephen; Keane, Jack; Etcharren, Domingo; DeLamar, Jack; Cohen, Hartwig; Cyty, Johnny; Sullivan, Mike; Harris, Shorty; Cross, Ed; Butler, Jim; Montgomery, Bob; Schwab, Charles; Wilson, Homer; Patrick, Lucien; Wedekind, E H; Campbell, John F; Keane Wonder Mining Company; Elgan, J R; Leschen Brothers Company; Cohen Company; Ishmael, George; Cord, E L; Leonard, W D; Schriber, George; Title Insurance Company; O'Connell, Kristen, transmitter; Michigan Technological University's Industrial Archeology Program, sponsor; Death Valley National Park, sponsor; O'Connor, Richard, project manager; Lockett, Dana, project manager; Croteau, Todd, project manager; Flores, Roland, field team; Brooks, Pete, field team; James, Amy B, field team; Christianson, Justine, transmitter; O'Connor, Richard, project manager
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DETAIL VIEW OF AERIAL TRAM SUPPORT TOWERS THREE AND FOUR, LOOKING NORTHWEST. - Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA
Depicted place California; Inyo County; Death Valley Junction
Date 2000
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER CA-291-18
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades of gold mining. One of Keane Wonder Mine's most impressive and intact technological features is the aerial tramway, which is the most intact original feature of the mine and sets Keane Wonder apart as a unique historic mining site in the region today, just as it did when it began operating in 1907. Although aerial tramways have been a fairly common, well-established, and necessary part of mining operations throughout the world, the scale of the Keane Wonder tramway made it unique in the Death Valley region. It remains as one of the few places in the Mojave Desert where an intact aerial tramway of this vintage can be seen.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N995
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1335
  • Survey number: HAER CA-291
  • Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1906-1907 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1908 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1941-1942 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1983 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca3002.photos.201751p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location36° 18′ 07.99″ N, 116° 24′ 46.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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