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Title	Robert I. Nesmith photographs.
PDI.Title	What you can see from the headframe - Issue #1 (view from Leonard Mine headframe of Meaderville, Butte, Montana) (Lot 019 B14)
Creator	Nesmith, Robert I.
Date-Original	1942; 1943; 1944
Description	This collection contains photographs taken for the publication Copper Commando from 1942-1945 (bulk 1942-1943). It includes images taken by Robert I. Nesmith during his tenure as chief photographer. These images document the day-to-day operations workers at the Anaconda smelter (252 images), Butte mines (371 images), Great Falls electrolytic zinc plant and copper refinery (229 images), Rocker lumber mill (30 images), East Helena slag treating plant (28 images), and American Brass Company in Connecticut (13 images). They illustrate the process of metal production from mining ore through concentrating, roasting, smelting, converting, and electrolytic refining. The following titles are viewable as images on the Montana Memory project: Lot 019 B 14 What you can see from the headframe - Issue #1 (view from Leonard Mine headframe of Meaderville, Butte, Montana), Lot 019 B 49 Miners in cage about to go down - Issue #1, Lot 019 A 54b (Men in line for Group 1 - buying war bonds), Lot 019 B 60 Fred Schmooke and Phil Larson setting up (Setting up drifter to drill), Lot 019 B 81 Sign 73 EMPLOYEES ABSENT (sign reads 73 Employees Were Absent From War Production Yesterday !, Were You One of Them?), Lot 019 A 111 Men leaving work, Lot 019 R 121 Taking logs from car (Verne Bennet and Walter Richter), Lot 019 B 138 Soldiers and WAC (women in American Women's Volunteer Service (AWVS)), Lot 019 F 150 Newcomb interviewing Anode Worker (John Epperson interviewed), Lot 019 F 153 Cathodes going into rinse, Lot 019 B 205 Statue of Marcus Daly, Lot 019 A 209 Coming to work and stack, Lot 019 A 319 Pattern Shop (Gus Sbragia with gear pattern), Lot 019 A 371 New Converter (Joe Messer cooling anodes on turntable), Lot 019 F 422 Zinc Roasting (George Grecich tramming calcine), Lot 019 B 565 Surveying (Dave Piper and Gus McLeod surveying the Richest Hill on Earth), Lot 019 B 571 Surveying (Overview with headframe), Lot 019 B 613 Explosives (Jet Ward, John Boer, and Claude Crabtree prepping primers for blasting), Lot 019 B 833 Machine Shops, Welders etc Anaconda (Tom Barry with Al Campbell), Lot 019 B 945 Explosive story Warehouse to Anselmo Rosie Smith Supt. Story from William Duckham Safety Dept (Bill Kent on dynamite truck being handed box by Bill Thomas; Kermit Shifty driving), Lot 019 B 1012 Rock drilling (Joe Blank and Leon Wayment operating a Jumbo drill carriage), Lot 019 B 1041 ACM Rescue Station #2 at Tramway [Mine] (Charles Goforth, instructor, and class with breathing apparatus: Percy Pholman, Jr., Ben Binge, Harvey Bradley, Tom Regan, Otto Shepherd, and Robert Gruhler), Lot 019 B 1109 Editorial Board Meeting (Butte Editorial Board), Lot 019 H 1162 East Helena Plant - Exteriors (Flue system with power house in foreground), Lot 019 A 1199 Food Glynn Family (Platter Chatter column - Mrs. Joan Glynn and children eating at table).
Subject (LCSH)	Anaconda Copper Mining Company.; Copper mines and mining--Montana.; Copper smelting--Montana.; Zinc smelting--Montana.; Electrometallurgy--Montana.; Labor-management committees--Montana.; World War, 1939-1945--War work.; Butte (Mont.); Great Falls (Mont.); Anaconda (Mont.); East Helena (Mont.); Rocker (Mont.)
Rights	Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image (which may be protected by copyright law - Title 17 U.S. Code) are available from the Montana Historical Society Research Center.
Collection Information	Lot 019
Contributing Institution	Montana Historical Society Research Center
Contact us	To order a reproduction, download our order form at http://mhs.mt.gov/research/photo/servicesfees.asp or contact Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives: (406) 444-4739 / photoarchives@mt.gov
Digital Collection	Photographs from the Montana Historical Society
Genre (Short List)	Photographs
Type	Image; StillImage
Digital Format	image/jp2
Physical Dimensions	923 safety negatives: b&w ; 3" x 4"; 66 photographic prints: b&w ; 3" x 4", 8" x 10" and 11" x 14"
Relation	http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv13046; http://worldcat.org/oclc/429906675/viewonline

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