COULES MCBRIDE The Great Homestake Mills Largest Gold Mills

Sale 2208 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 2,160

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

WITH A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF DEADWOOD COULES & MCBRIDE
"The Great 'Homestake' Mills, Largest Gold Mills in the World" * "Gigantic Work of Human Hands and Giant Powder." Together, 2 photographs. Albumen prints, each approximately 7x9 inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), both with the photogapher's credit and caption on a label in the negative. 1888

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with--"Birds Eye View of Deadwood, South Dakota. Albumen print, 7x9 1/4 inches (17.8x23.5 cm.), with the photogapher's credit and caption on a label in the negative and notations, in ink, in an unknown hand, on mount recto. Circa 1890.

The Homestake claim was first staked out in 1876, and it became the most productive gold mine in America. The third image is of downtown Deadwood, which was immortalized in the HBO series.