Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Bully Hill Mine Photographs Relating to the Lawrence May Family,
Date: ca. 1870-1919
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1982.063 -- PIC
Creator:
May family
Extent:
77 loose photographs, various sizes; 20 photographs compiled in album, 19 x 26 cm.; various ephemera.
81 digital objects
Repository:
The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is available for use.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]
Bully Hill Mine photographs relating to the Lawrence May family, BANC PIC 1982.063 --PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Representations Available
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Bully Hill Mine Photographs Relating to the Lawrence May Family collection was received as a gift from Marjorie May, via
her brother Henry May (both children of Lawrence May), in 1982.
Scope and Content
The Bully Hill Mine Photographs collection--consisting of 77 loose prints, 1 album and various ephemera spanning circa 1870
to circa 1919--documents the Bully Hill Mine and Delamar community of Shasta County, California. In addition to photographs
of the smelter facilities and other buildings and yards related to the operations of the Bully Hill Mine--primarily a copper
mine--the collection includes photographs of the town of Delamar and surrounding lands, local railways, other mining facilities,
the Pit River area and many unidentified waterways, the town of Shasta Soda Springs, and Yosemite Valley. A large portion
of the collection features members of the May family and other Delamar inhabitants and Bully Hill Mine workers. Especially
prominent in the photographs are Lawrence May, a Bully Hill Mine engineer, and his wife Florence Mesing May. Scenes of Picnics,
swimming outings, horseback riding, and other leisure events and social gatherings, as well as several group portraits of
community members, are also included.
The collection also contains a small untitled album of 20 photographs of the Bully Hill and Rising Star Mine areas and the
community of Delamar, as well as a ribbon-bound booklet,
Bully Hill, which includes the text of a poem, "Thanksgiving Nineteen Hundred and Nine," by the "Poet Lariat," and several photographic
illustrations of the people and dwellings of the Bully Hill community.
A photograph of geologist Andrew C. Lawson is also included (no. 66).
Other miscellaneous material includes a description of the Bully Hill Mine photocopied from Lewis E. Aubury's 1908
The Copper Resources of California, a photocopied portion of a 1939 map of Shasta County mineral deposits, and a note compiled from several sources on the history
of the Bully Hill Mine.