Dennis Searles photographs [graphic]. [ca. 1856-1900]

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Dennis Searles photographs [graphic]. [ca. 1856-1900]

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Photos depict borax mining company grounds and surrounding area; operations, buildings, people, horses, wagons, and landscape. A few photos depict Chinese laborers, and one photo depicts a native American woman. Most (54) photos are on loose album sheets (up to four photos per side, on seven 16 x 23 cm. sheets--one photo is loose), with some captions, e.g. cook house; John Searles office, Dennis Searles in garden; Borax Smith; F.M. Smith, Oakland; Borax Smiths's garden. Larger card-mounted photos ("taken 1880") of "San Bernardino Borax Mining Company" have captions: Boiling tanks; crystallizing tanks; engine house and reservoir; loading borax; warehouse and brush teams; camp at lower garden; upper end of lower garden; dwelling house. Includes two portraits: "Dennis and brother John Searles, Den's father and uncle, ca. 1865" and "John W. Searles, ca. 1888, and son Dennis." Also includes a photo "ca. 1900" of a man picnicking in the desert with a horse and cart nearby.

68 photographic prints : b? ; mount 23 x 28 cm. or smaller.

California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6801617

California historical society

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Searles, Dennis

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In 1862, while looking for gold, John Wemple Searles and his brother Dennis discovered borax in what is now Searles Lake, California. In 1873 they formed the San Bernardino Borax Mining Company. From the description of Letter to Carrie Searles, 1863, Aug. 26. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122565195 Born 27 February 1874, Searles is sixteen years old when he visits the mining operation while on vacation from boarding school...

Searles, John E. (John Ennis), -1908

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San Bernardino Borax Mining Company

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Payne, Stanton & Co.

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Smith, Francis Marion, 1846-1931

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Prospector, miner, civic builder, philanthropist, and sportsman, known as the "Borax King," who built a large estate on Shelter Island. From the description of Papers, 1900-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155556664 ...