Arizona Historic photos, documents, and people

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Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A view of the plant where the tungsten ore, mined at the Boriana mine, is processed. Sagebrush and cacti cover the desert mountains surrounding the plant

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Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A train of small cars carrying tungsten ore from the Boriana mines to a concentrating plant in the same area. The mine is about forty miles from Kingman

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California state quarantine inspection station at Yuma, Arizona. The station is open twenty-four hours a day with one senior and three junior inspectors on duty each shift

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Family of nine from Fort Smith, Arkansas, trying to repair their car on road between Phoenix and Yuma, Arizona. On their way to try to find work in the California harvests

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Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A workman unloading mine cars that have been hauling tungsten ore from the Boriana mine workings to a concentrating plant in the same area

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Morenci, Arizona. The copper mine railroad on which the ore is transported to the smelting plant of the Phelps Dodge mining corporation. The plant is in the background

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Morenci, Arizona. Three handy workers transport and dispense the explosives used for blasting at a large open-pit copper mine of the Phelps Dodge mining corporation

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Morenci, Arizona. Three handy workers transport and dispense the explosives used for blasting at a large open-pit copper mine of the Phelps Dodge mining corporation

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Drought refugees are stopped at the inspection station in Yuma, Arizona, to have their baggage inspected for plant pests before they are allowed to enter California