HMCC . Homestake Mining Company Collection

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The Homestake Mining Company Maps and Blueprints Collection contains a wide variety of maps, drawings, blueprints, and other documents relating to the company's operation.

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This collection contains documents and media created or collected by the Homestake Mining Company’s Public Affairs Department (a division of Employee Relations) and other promotional, outreach, and publication materials created and collected by Homestake between 1879 and 2001. The bulk of the records date from 1939 to 2001. The collection includes scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, publications, advertisements, and newsletters.

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Homestake Purchase Orders consists of orders from 1915 through 1999 and includes forms from several departments in Lead, the Wyodak Coal Company, the Deep Level Project, and uranium explorations in Wyoming. The records are largely duplicate or triplicate forms, but there is some correspondence.

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The Homestake Survey Records are an artificial collection consisting primarily of survey and field books dating from 1877 to 1986. The collection also includes data and worksheets, survey cards, correspondence, and several aerial photographs.

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The Homestake Mining Company Thesis collection includes copies of several dozen theses either collected by or sent to various departments of the company. The dissertations date from 1920 through 1997.

Abstract The Homestake Timber Contracts Paperwork collection includes documents regarding the sale of timber from National Forest Service land to the Homestake Mining Company from the late 1890s through the 1960s. The material also includes reasearch and correspondence from as late as the 1990s. The documents list the amount of timber sold and from which locations. The collection has a particular historical significance in the documents relating to 'Case 1.' Case 1 is the first time timber was sold...

Abstract The Homestake Veteran’s Association, founded in December 1905, is a fraternal organization made up of longtime Homestake Mining Company employees. This collection consists of organizational and administrative records of the Homestake Veterans Association created from 1905 to 1989. The bulk of the materials date from 1936 through 1975. The collection includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, newspaper clippings, yearbooks, and records of the Homestake Veterans Association Widows...

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The Hydroelectric and Kirk Power Plant Operation Records consists of daily operation logs from the Homestake Mining Company's power plants. The bulk of the records date between 1918 and 1965.

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The J. Henry Schnitzel Collection consists of materials including contracts and maps regarding the Golden Reward Mining Company and Schnitzel's work in Kirwin, Wyoming, including the Galena Ridge Mining Company and the settlement of his estate after his death in 1930.

Abstract The Jobs in Progress Records consists of records from the Homestake Engineering Office dating from the early 1970s through the mid 1990s with the majority of materials dated between 1976 and 1988. These boxes were kept in the office until the closure of Homestake Mining Company in 2001. The drawings, product specifications, correspondence, photographs and purchase orders pertain to several different construction projects around the Black Hills as well as the Creede Mine and Mill operations...