A mine rescue team
Dateca. 1910
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions8 5/16 × 6 1/8 in. (21.1 × 15.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Dorothy Diver
Object numberPA1974.070.002.A
DescriptionA mine rescue team stands on a porch and stairs of a building in Dawson, New Mexico. Four men stand in the front and hold the mine rescue suits they will be using. There are helmets and air bags worn over their chests with hoses that attach from the bag to the helmet. The building is a stone building with a wooden porch. The lowest level of the building is covered with latticed wood under the porch. Dawson was a Phelps Dodge Corporation mining community and suffered one of the deadliest mining disasters in U.S. history in 1913 when dynamite exploded in Stag Canyon Mine #2, killing over 250 miners.On View
Not on view
ca. 1910
ca. 1910
ca. 1910
ca. 1910