Arizona Historic photos, documents, and people

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Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A huge waste pile, showing a workman near the center picking up still valuable pieces of tungsten ore, which is mined at the Boriana workings and processed at a nearby reco

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Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A miner going toward a train of mine cars at the entrance of the Boriana mining company. These cars carry tungsten ore to a concentrating plant in the same area. The mine i

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Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. Powdered tungsten ore, mined near Kingman at the Boriana workings. This ore is used to increase the hardness of steel for cutting tools and, since the war, has been used fo

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Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A general view of the desert mountain type of country in which tungsten ore is mined by the Boriana mining company. Cacti and sage brush, shown here, represent the only veg

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Cotton picker's camp, Salt River Valley, Arizona. For many refugees from the Southwest, Arizona is a stopping point on the way to California, where money can be made during the cotton harvest with whic

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Family of nine from near Fort Smith, Arkansas, on their way to try to find work in the California harvests. Between Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona. Fourteen such cars were passed one afternoon on this highw

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Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. Mr. Relling, in the laboratory, analyzing tungsten ore and concentrates in a plant near the Boriana mines where the chromium-like metallic elements are obtained

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Farm Security Administration Casa Grande project, Arizona. Large-scale corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide profits. Children in this group came from eight different states

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Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A general view showing a huge waste pile and beyond it the recovery plant where tungsten ore is processed. The ore is mined in the nearby Boriana workings