Nostalgia & History > D&RG Mine

Call Number: MSS P-3156 # 42.  Title: D[enver] and R[io] G[rande] Mine Winter Quarter [Utah].  Photographer: Anderson, George Edward, 1860-1928.  Contributor: Edwards, Robert W. (Robert William), 1925-2002.  Description: A photograph taken outdoors of a large group of men and children standing and seated around the entrance of a mine.  Date Original: ca. 1880-1920.  Place: Winter Quarters, Utah.  Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative; 20.32 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.)                        Owning Institution.  Brigham Young University. 
 
Picture 1, Left side of photo. 
 
Picture 2, Right side of photo.
 
Picture 3, Bottom of photo.
 

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Very interesting photo.  Looks like that was pre child labor laws. 

Dave

Awesome shot!! Rio Grande Western car re-lettered to D&RG Western.

On the right side of that DRGW car is what appears to be an early version of the "radioactive" symbol.  I wonder if that's what it means, and if this was a uranium mine?

Great photo flynn.  Shows what those hard working men achieved in the old days, all that cribbing of timbers.  I have no idea of the symbol, i'm sure at Winter Quarters it was a coal mine.
Blaine
American Fork

             It was a " Go to  work with Dad " occassion.

On May 1, 1900 a mine explosion killed 200+ men and boys at the Schofield Mine in Winter Quarters, Carbon County Utah