Collection Timeline

1926 to 1950

1926
These are mostly surface panoramic shots of the mining companies and the surrounding forests. Preserved through a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation, 2007. Preservation copying by Triage Archival Restoration Services, Los Angeles, CA
Bunker Hill and Sullivan Smelter, March 16, 1926. Scenes show houses, railroad yard, a smelter building with smokestack, and a railroad trestle with mountains in the background. Also a scene showing cast iron kettles capable of holding 100 tons of molten lead. Preserved through a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation, 2007. Preservation copying by Triage Archival Restoration Services, Los Angeles, CA

1930
Aerial views of the Coeur d'Alene Mining District were shot by Marsh from the open window of an airplane. A scene of some of the miners is entitled "Sourdoughs." Included is footage of the Tamarack and Custer mines at Dorn, and the Dayrock, Morning, Bunker Hill, and Little Sunshine mines. Preserved through a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation, 2007. Preservation copying by Triage Archival Restoration Services, Los Angeles, CA

1950
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.