[WESTERN AMERICANA] -- [MINING]. Album containing 59 photographs, some showing mining operations in Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada, ca 1906.

Oblong 4to. (10 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.) 59 images including silver gelatin photographs and cyanotypes, majority approximately 5 1/2 x 3 in. or smaller, mounted recto on 10 x 6 7/8 in. album pages (some toning and silvering to images, with adhesive residue or bleeding in some cases, occasional chipping to page edges). Textured paper boards (light surface wear).

Many images with captions inscribed in ink on corresponding album pages, some with typewritten captions on verso just visible through the image.

Captions include, "Goldfield Junction in winter. From Right to left. M.V. Sutherland, 'Jack' Davies., Austin., McGrath, Miller." -- "Taken near goldfield, Railroad [indecipherable] used between Tonapah and Goldfield. They run as fast as forty miles an hour." -- "Columbia, Nevada. Ten animal team grading on the new line. Driver is 'Charley' White, one of the famous crowd that drive borax teams out of Death Valley. This man worked opposite 'Borax Bill.'" -- "Min in back of bank house / In bank house. Tonopah Aug. 1906." -- "Miller's Nev. Stamp Mill and Power plant of the Tonopah Mining Co. Sept. 1906." -- "Lester inspecting pumping station at Klondyke Hills. Ed Powers on coal pile." -- And several others. Many of the other photographs (about half), without captions, show scenes from an unidentified metropolitan area.