Scripophily and Ephemera of the Death Valley, California-Nevada Region

You can visit mine sites in Death Valley and environs – some just steps away from your vehicle, and others after arduous hiking. If you want to have a piece of a mine’s history, say a bottle, rusting can, or a piece of machinery, you’re depriving the next explorer from getting the sense of discovery you just experienced. If the mine or mill site is on lands administered by the United States government, federal laws prohibit disturbing or taking artifacts. If a site is on private land, removing objects is just plain stealing.

Scripophily: The collecting of paper documents, particularly stock and bond certificates of corporations. Scripophily provides a means to own a physical piece of mining history without disturbing a mine site, trespassing, or law-breaking.

Ephemera: Pamphlets, notices, and tickets, and other common paper items that were intended for use for only a short time, especially when preserved as collectibles.

This website to shares our collection of historic stock and bond certificates associated with Death Valley. Brief histories of mines are included where historic information is available.

Select a link to learn more:

• The Bullfrog District
• The Funeral Mountains / South Bullfrog Mining District
• The Grapevine Mountains
• The Greenwater District
• The Lee – Echo District
• Oriental Wash and the Tokop – Gold Mountain District
• Tule Canyon-Roosevelt District and the Lida District
• The Ubehebe District
• The Panamint Mountains
• Darwin and the Coso District
• Saline Valley Salt Mine & Tramway
• “Borax” Smith’s West End Companies
• Northern Amargosa Valley
• Southern Amargosa Valley
• The Skookum District
• Borax Mining
• Leadfield Mines
• The Palmetto District
• Railroads, Airlines and Hospitality of the Death Valley Region
• The Last Chance Range
• The Johnnie District
• The Epson Salt Monorail
• Searles Lake and Trona
• Mines of the Resting Springs District
• Death Valley in Name Only