January 1939. "West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been down about a year." Photo by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.

September 1940. "Old house of gold miner. Telluride, Colorado." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1940. Eureka, Colorado. "The Sunnyside mill, now abandoned. There is still gold ore here but the best has been taken out and now the lower grades which are expensive to process do not attract the mine and mill operators." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1940. "Old house in Silverton, Colorado. This was the type of house built by mine and mill operators in the early mining days and indicates that the owners felt that the mining operations would be of a permanent nature." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1940. "House dating from the early boom days of Silverton, Colorado." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

September 1940. "Abandoned gold mill east of Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado." Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

June 1939. "Gold mine owners built substantial homes in ghost town of Pony, Montana." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.

May 1940. "Store in copper mining center of Bisbee, Arizona." The Miners Meat Market in the Holz Building on Naco Road. Photo by Russell Lee. View full size.

Spring 1940. "Store in Bisbee, Arizona. Phelps-Dodge practically owns this town: the copper mines, the principal mercantile company, the hospital and the hotel." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1940. "Looking down on the rooftops of Bisbee, Arizona. Copper mining center in the Mule Mountains, elevation 5,300 feet." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1940. "Side street [Subway Street] of Bisbee, Arizona. Copper mining center." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1940. "Miner who won power-drilling contest at the Labor Day celebration in Silverton, Colorado." Photo by Russell Lee. View full size.

January 1943. "The operator of a zinc ore loader at a large smelting plant is protected against harmful dust by a mask. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Fritz Henle for the Office of War Information. View full size.

December 1942. "Creede, Colorado. Lead and silver mining in a former ghost town." Photo by Andreas Feininger, Office of War Information. View full size.

1900. "Woodward coal breaker, Kingston, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.