Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Mt. Hope Papers Series : Mt. Hope Photographs |
Scope & Content |
Series Record, Mt. Hope Photograph Collection Series 3: Mt. Hope Photographs: Aerial photography, documentary photographs, and photographic negatives produced by the various mining companies associated with Mt. Hope Mines. Photographs are individually processed and available in the Photography catalog. |
Object Name |
Photographs |
Catalog Number |
MH2006.002.0003 |
Collection |
Mt. Hope Mining Collection |
Physical characteristics |
2 dozen photos and negatives |
Creator |
Various Creators |
Other Creators |
Mt. Hope Mine staff and employees |
Biographical History |
Located in Rockaway Township, Morris County, New Jersey, Mt. Hope Mine lies within the Highlands Physiographic Province, a narrow band of very old, hard, diverse rock containing deposits of various minerals such including iron ore. The Highlands is an extension - or prong - of the New England Upland, much of which lies northeast of Morris County and extends southwest to Reading, PA. The Highlands is made up of fairly regular parallel rows of steep ridges and valleys. The Wisconsin Glacier's Terminal Moraine - which runs approximately along the Interstate Route 80 corridor - divides the soils of this province into two distinct regions. Numerous bodies of rich magnetite iron ore, along with abundant timber and water resources made this area suitable for the mining and processing of iron. Over the years the Mt. Hope Mine and nearby Hibernia and Richard Mines, all located in Rockaway, provided more than 50% of the iron ore shipped from the state. Settlers began mining iron ore at Mt. Hope around 1710, and, except for brief periods, the mines have been worked almost continuously for over 290 years. This makes Mt. Hope one of the oldest ongoing mining operations in the country. |
Year Range from |
1950 |
Year Range to |
1990 |
System of arrangement |
The Mt. Hope Papers are divided into three natural groupings, documentary holdings referring to the running of the various companies who ran the Mt. Hope Mine and the extensive map collection of the Mine and surrounding area, and photographs and other images created by those companies as they give different views into the history of the area. Series 1: Mt. Hope Mining Collection Series 2: Mt. Hope Maps Series 3: Mt. Hope Photographs |
Parent ObjectID |
MH2006.001 |
Copyrights |
Records may be copied for use in individual scholarly or personal research, however, as with all materials in the Morris County Park Commission, researchers are responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material from the collection. |
Level of description |
Series |