Papers, 1922-1994.

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Papers, 1922-1994.

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This collection consist of personal and professional papers Vincent D. Perry created during his career as a mining engineer and geologist. One of the earliest documents in the collection is the fourteen page handwritten letter Perry wrote to his father of his recollections of the Argonaut Gold Mine fire in 1922. There is correspondence in the collection from the time Perry was at the Cananea Mines in Mexico for Anaconda through the 1990s when he still worked as a geological consultant. The collection includes the career memoirs of Anaconda geologist Charles M. Brinckerhoff and two bound copies of Perry's career memoirs.

21.5 cubic ft. (21 boxes, 1 envelope)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Perry, Vincent D.

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Vincent D. Perry (1901-1997) accepted his first professional position as an assistant engineer for the Carson Hill Gold Mines, Inc. in California in June, 1922. In September of that same year he was a member of one of the rescue teams chosen to locate the miners trapped in the Argonaut Gold Mine fire near Jackson, California. In 1924, he became a mining geologist for Anaconda Mining Company in Butte, Montana, and in 1928 he was the chief geologist for Anaconda's Cananea Consolidated Copper Compa...

Cananea Consolidated Copper Company.

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Anaconda Mining Company

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Brinckerhoff, Charles M.

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