John A. Peperakis photograph collection

John A. Peperakis photograph collection, circa 1910-1955

Overview of the Collection

Title: John A. Peperakis photograph collection
Dates: circa 1910-1955 (inclusive)
19051960
Quantity: 1.8 linear feet, (2 archives boxes)
Collection Number: P0570
Summary: The John A. Peperakis photograph collection contains photographs of local Utah mining operations, mining companies and the mines.
Repository: University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions: Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Languages: English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

John Peperakis was a mining engineer who was manager of Sunnyside Coal Mines, Utah for Kaiser Steel Corporation. This collection deals with various local Utah mining operations. Mostly photographs of the mine companies and the mines themselves. Various companies are represented.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Processing Note

Processed by Ashley Arave in 2004.

Separated Materials

Manuscript materials were transferred to the John A. Peperakis papers (ACCN 1436).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description
Box
1	Mines and Mining Photograph number 1: From tube 45, Super Longwall Photograph number 2: Sunnyside Number 2 Supervision of long ago. Lauriski, Daughterty, D. Self, Bill Reavely, Markosek, Herbert, Vanwagoner, Cullen, C. Self. Cullen was Superintendent but got run out by the union. Photograph number 3: Butcher Shop, Mine Office and Wasatch Store, Sunnyside. Photograph number 4: Pulling coke at the Beehive ovens at Sunnyside, ended 1958. Photograph number 5: Backfilling via flume Sunnyside, Number 3 Mine Photograph number 6: Main parting at the head of the Sunnyside Number 2 Mine Slope at time of mine fire on August 17, 1920 Photograph number 7: Twin fan installation at the coal outcrop at fan canyon Number 1 Mine, Sunnyside. Photograph number 8: Wreck at Columbia Junction. Defense plant Corporation. (On Jan. 22, 1944, two engines collided on the Carbon County Railway near Columbia, Utah.) Photograph number 9: Aerial Tramway towers Spring Canyon Mine. Photograph number 10: Another view of Spring Canyon Mine aerial tramway. This canyon is not the access via good road to Price River Coal Company Number 5 Mine and now Castle Gate Coal Company. Photograph number 11: Trip assembly yard Castle Gate Number 2 Mine at Willow Creek. Building is the change house. Photograph number 12: Haulage Portal Castle Gate Number 2 Mine. Bridge over Willow Creek. On March 8, 1924 this mine blew up and killed 172 men. It was a combination of dust and methane. One of the most violent explosions in the history of coal mining. Photograph number 13: Utah Fuel Company office Sunnyside. Photograph number 14: Spring Canyon Tipple and part of early tent camp. Office and store as indicated is where I obtained my roll top desk years ago. Photograph number 15: Aerial Tramway headhouse Spring Canyon Mine. Photograph number 16: Kaiser Company Inc. office in lower end of Number 2 Canyon. (Kaiser Steel operated the mine from 1943 into the 1980s) Photograph number 17: South facing Book Cliffs overlooking the company owned town of Kenilworth. 1938 Photo. A is the Kenilworth bed. B is the Aberdeen bed. C. Is the portal site of the 8400 foot rock tunnel. E is the site of the original portals. D is the old tramway on which coal was lowered to tipple level. F is the tipple. Canyons at G and H are sites of other portals. The road in the lower right corner was the original access to the town from Price. Kenilworth townsite, now largely a retirement community, is only a little over miles east of Helper. Photograph number 18: Castle Gate Tipple and townsite Photograph number 19: Main parting in Kenilworth bed Kenilworth mine. This parting was just in by the 8400 foot rock tunnel.
2	Oversize Photograph number 1-7: Aerials and Mining

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Coal mines and mining--Utah
Longwall mining--Utah
Mines and Mineral Resources

Personal Names

Peperakis, John

Geographical Names

Carbon County (Utah)
Kaiparowits Plateau (Utah)

Form or Genre Terms

Photographic prints--Color

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