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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Gophering, or prospecting for lead using a windlass at Maplewood Farm. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of mining operations. Caption reads: "'A Busy Corner' of Platteville." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Empire zinc and lead mine. Very litle lead is now produced. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | The brick building at 340 South Chestnut Street, was built around 1930. It resembled the house-with-canopy-type station commonly constructed throughout the... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | This topographical map shows the Little Platte River, shafts, test-pits, old workings, contour lines of Galena limestone elevation, railroads, and building... |
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