Content Description From the Collection: Photographs documenting mining activities and everyday life in Wallace, Idaho and the Coeur d'Alene Mining District. The original donation of around 200,000 images included prints, glass negatives, and film negatives including nitrocellulose film. The nitrocellulose was separated to a secure location then transferred to a more stable film, both 35 mm and larger safety film, and prints. The majority of these images were portraits, and only a sample of them were transferred with the attempt to...

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Portrait photographs documenting mining activities and everyday life in Wallace, Idaho and the Coeur d'Alene Mining District.