Photo collection - 1880's silver mining boom

Mining

A collection of eight black and white photographs of various mining sites during the silver mining boom of the 1880's in the Thunder Bay District. These mining sites were collectively a part of the largest silver mining project in Canada at the time. The photos display the following from top left to bottom right:

1. Interior of a stamp mill (Beaver Mine)
2. Outside of stamp mill (Rabbit Mountain Mine)
3. Powder magazine (Beaver Mine)
4. Silver bricks, crucibles etc. in a laboratory (Badger Mine)
5. A Hotel (Beaver Mine)
6. A School (Beaver Mine)
7. Inside a silver vein (Silver Creek Mine)
8. A shaft house (Beaver Mine)

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Still image

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