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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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View looking east down Main Street at the intersection with Court Street. Coyle's Drugstore is on the right. |
| Date: | 03 12 1930 |
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| Description: | Architectural drawing of Tracy Theater in Platteville, Wisconsin, Livermore & Barnes architects. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 07 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Coon dogs starting race with handlers and spectators in background. |
| Date: | 07 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Coon dogs treeing a raccoon with handler and spectators observing. Sign on spectators' fence says: "Elect Taylor G. Brown, Republican Candidate for Lieuten... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | View looking up at two water towers. The roof of a building and treetops are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of mining operations. Caption reads: "'A Busy Corner' of Platteville." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A view of a tree on the grounds near a building at the State Mining School. This maple tree was planted in 1869 by, Professor Charles H. Allen, Professor D... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A view of the plaque on a maple tree outside the State Mining School. It reads: "Planted April 1869 by Professor Charles H. Allen, Professor Duncan McGrego... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A view of Royce Hall at the Wisconsin State College at Platteville. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The John H. Rountree House, built in 1854. According to "The History of Wisconsin" (Vol. I, 1973), "The rise of the settlement at Platte Mounds was indisso... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Post Office. Caption reads: "Post Office, Platteville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A view of the Mitchell-Rountree house. Built in 1837 for the Rev. Samueal Mitchell under the direction of his daughter's husband, Major John H. roundtree, ... |
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