Winter Quarters, Utah

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Title	Winter Quarters, Utah
Collection	Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection
Identifier	39222001423107
Photo Number	19015
Photographer	Anderson, George Edward
Publisher	Utah State Historical Society
Date of photograph	ca. 1900
Date.original	1900; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904
Subject	Coal mining; Mine accidents; Disasters; Miners; Coffins; Horses; Carts and wagons; Mine railroads; Stores and shops;
Geopolitical place	Utah; Carbon County; Winter Quarters
Description	Image shows the Wasatch Store at Winter Quarters where caskets were unloaded and collected after a large mine explosion. Caskets were brought in from Salt Lake City and from Denver.
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 (c) 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	10 inches x 8 inches
Source donors	Edwards, Robert W.
Type	Image
Format.use	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

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