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Montana Gold Dredges in Photo Negatives [146745]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Mining Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 600.00 USD
Montana Gold Dredges in Photo Negatives  [146745]
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This item SOLD at 2022 Apr 23 @ 09:17UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Twelve photo negatives c1933, including seven 6-7/8 x 10-3/4-inch negatives and five 7-3/4 x 9-3/4-inch negatives. Four images are pictures of an unnamed dredge from an unknown location. The other eight images are of The Mosier gold dredge in Pioneer Gulch, Montana, off of Gold Creek, east of Missoula. The Mosier was shipped there on 46 rail cars in 1927, and it took two years to assemble the four-story, wooden-hulled machine. The dredge screen was 18 feet square. It was operated by the Pioneer Placer Dredging Company, and it ran from 1933 until halted in 1941 by Federal order at the outbreak of World War II. Dredging is now illegal in Montana, and the operators left the machine abandoned in its final lake. A subsequent property owner is said to have burned The Mosier in the 1960s to keep people away from it. Today the largest metal parts lay partly submerged, rusting in its last dredge pond as a derelict ruin and visible on Google Maps. The black & white images shown with this lot are photographs of the negatives inverted to positives. These are an historic part of Montana's mining legacy in large-format photography. From the Stuart MacKenzie Montana Mining Collection. City: State:Montana Date:1933