Winter Quarters, Utah

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Title Winter Quarters, Utah
Collection Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection
File Name 39222001423842
Photo Number 25281
Creator Anderson, George Edward, 1860-1928
Publisher Utah State Historical Society
Date of Photograph ca. 1914
Date 1914; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918
Subject Coal mining; Mine accidents; Disasters; Miners; Children
Spatial Coverage Utah; Carbon County; Winter Quarters
Description Image shows a friend of the Dunn family from Winter Quarters, Utah. The young boy is wearing a miner's hat.
Comment Winter Quarters was an old mining town near Scofield in Utah's Carbon County. The town is now a ghost town, but is most remembered for a huge explosion in 1900 that lead to the death of nearly 200 miners.
Rights Management Digital Image (c) 2006 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Classified Photo Collection, 979.2 Utah Cities
Source Format Paper print
Source Size 6 inches x 10 inches
Source Donors Dunn, Neville C.
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation Image scanned from print on Epson Scanner at TIFF: 800 dpi.
Scanned By Karl Nicholson and Earl Hindley, Utah State Historical Society
ARK ark:/87278/s6pr83q0
Setname dha_cp
ID 434191
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pr83q0
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