The world's greatest zinc and lead district
Subtitle: as seen through the camera
Contributors: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co; American Mining Congress
Publisher: Means & Head
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Joplin, Missouri
Language: eng
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources; Pictorial works; Mineral industries
Notes: Binding: stabbed; tied with brown cord.

Photomechanical reproductions of photographs of Joplin, Missouri, with accompanying text.

Includes images of minerals, map of mining camp areas, committee members of American Mining Congress, municipal buildings, city hall, library, post office, federal building, street views, auditorium building, commercial buildings, banks, apartment buildings, hotels, theaters, parks, industrial and manufacturing  plants, water works, lead company works, construction sites, factories, residences, churches, schools, college, Y.M.C. A., rail road tracks and depots, machines works, cemetery, Quapaw Indian tribe members, mines, steam engines, pumps, boilers, birds'-eye views, mills, farms, lead smelting  and refining works, map showing "lands of the Granby Mining and Smelting Company in Jasper and Newton Counties," limestone quarries, natural gas companies and oil wells,.

Full transcription of title page reads: "A concise and accurate history of mining in the Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma-Arkansas district, together with varied resources, transportation, manufacturing facilities and tables of total output of zinc and lead ore, 1830-1907, with an outline map of the district. Containing more than one hundred handsome scenes of mills, methods and machinery employed in zinc and lead mining, also street scenes, public buildings, manufacturing plants and residences of some of the leading cities and towns. Published under the direction and supervision of the publicity committee, American Mining Congress, at its tenth annual session, held at Joplin, Missouri, November 11th to 16th, 1907,