Copper miners at Rio Tinto, Nevada, 1941
I rediscovered this intriguing site for old photos today. If you are interested in photos from the 1850s to the 1950s, check out the online archive at Shorpy. You can view pics and post your own. I joined and posted a family pic of men milling around the copper mine in Rio Tinto, Nevada. One of the men is my grandfather who worked at the mine in 1941 and 1942. Rio Tinto is a ghost town now, as this photo of the ruins of Rio Tinto school house shows.
Once thriving mining town of Rio Tinto, NV, was abandoned in 1948.
The site is named for Shorpy Higgenbotham, a teenage coal miner in the early 1900s. You can see some grim and poignant photos of him at work.
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