Papers of Shelby B. Combest relating to mining, 1916 - 1918

Collection

Identifier: MS 148

Staff Only

Dates

1916-1918

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is unrestricted.

Conditions Governing Use

Request for permission to publish material from the collection must be discussed with the Librarian.

Biographical

Shelby B. Combest was born on February 22, 1880. He spent some time prior to 1920 working at Treadwell as a mining engineer and was in charge of the cyanide plant there. In 1924 and 1925 he was superintendent of the cyanide plant at Chichagof and at the time of his death was acting superintendent of the mine. He died in a fall down a chute on August 13, 1925 , and was buried in Beach, Washington. His wife Mabel was a niece of Alaskan photographer Ed Andrews, and they had two daughters.

Extent

5 items

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The papers were donated in October 1995 by Virginia S. Combest, the daughter of Shelby B. Combest (Acc. No 95-62).

Related Materials

These papers relate to the Combest photograph collection (PCA 308).

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for the Papers of Shelby B. Combest relating to mining, 1916 - 1918
Status: In Progress
Author: Processed by: Kathryn H. Shelton December 1995 ; ArchivesSpace finding aid by: Sandy Johnston
Date: 2019 July
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English