Winter Quarters, Utah

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Title	Winter Quarters, Utah
Collection	Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection
Identifier	39222001423842
Photo Number	25281
Photographer	Anderson, George Edward
Publisher	Utah State Historical Society
Date of photograph	ca. 1914
Date.original	1914; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918
Subject	Coal mining; Mine accidents; Disasters; Miners; Children;
Geopolitical place	Utah; Carbon County; Winter Quarters
Description	Image shows a friend of the Dunn family from Winter Quarters, Utah. The young boy is wearing a miner's hat.
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	6 inches x 10 inches
Source donors	Dunn, Neville C.
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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