Winter Quarters, Utah

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 © 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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