VIDEO
Stibnite; Bunker Hill, Burke Canyon. Item Info
- Title:
- Stibnite; Bunker Hill, Burke Canyon.
- Date Created:
- 1950
- Description:
- 16mm color film (pos.) Kodachrome, approx. 300 ft. on a 7" reel, 3 splices. Stibnite, Idaho and the Bradley Mining Co. scenes from 1950, showing surface operations from a high vantage point, vans, a bulldozer at work, much on the miner's hospital and surrounding residences. Bunker Hill mining operations, showing pit mining as viewed from top rim, panoramic shots of surface operations, a close-up of a "Bucyrus-Erie 54B" steam shovel at work loading dirt into a truck, with views of surrounding residences of the miners. Morning Star mine residential areas and new streetlights. Hercules mine showing residential housing, and Burke, Idaho showing local terrain around the town/mine. Ch 3: 0:30 to 1:39 Bradley Mining Co. office and view 1:39 to 1:49 bulldozer at work 1:49 to 3:37 Stibnite town, church, and hospital 3:37 to 4:29 Bunker Hill open pit mine, with steam shovel 4:08-4:25 4:29 to 8:33 Electolytic Zinc Plant at Silver King, west of Bunker Hill Smelter which was west of Kellogg, Idaho. 8:33 Begins with the mine dump at the Morning Mine at Mullan, Idaho and mine facilities. 9:54 is the Morning Club at Mullan built by the Morning Mine as a community center at Mullan, Id. 10:24 begins with the Gem Mill at Gem, Idaho, used by the Hecla Mining Company at Burke, Idaho. 10:38 is the Tamarack & Custer mine near Burke, Idaho. 11:06 is the Hecla Mining companys Star Mine at Burke, Idaho. When the ore bodies of the Star & Morning were worked in conjunction(they were connected) it was called the Star-Morning Mine. Not the Morning Star. 11:21 is Burke, Id looking down canyon. 11:30 The 4 story building is the famous Tiger Hotel and the rest are out buildings for the Hercules Mining company, both at Burke, Id. 12:17 is the baseball field, Ahern Field, in upper Burke, Id.
- Location:
- Stibnite Kellogg Burke Idaho
- Source:
- Harry Webb Marsh Collection, Manuscript Group 23, Special Collections, University of Idaho Library
- Source Identifier:
- MG 23 Item 25
- Type:
- Image;MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Stibnite; Bunker Hill, Burke Canyon.", Harry Webb Marsh Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/marsh/items/marsh006.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Educational use includes non-commercial use of text and images in materials for teaching and research purposes. Digital reproduction rights granted by the University of Idaho Library. For other uses beyond free use, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department.
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