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Gogebic Range Miners

Date: 1886
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners.
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Tunnel after Snowstorm

Date: 03 1899
Description: Winter scene of man wearing an overcoat and hat stands with a shovel at the far end of a snow tunnel shoveled through a tall snowbank.
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Arrested Woman in Car in Iron County

Date: 08 04 1942
Description: View of a woman as she was loaded into the agent's car after a raid at Rae's Blackhawk Bar. She is hiding her face in her coat.
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Man Seized in Vice Raid

Date: 07 04 1942
Description: State Agent (left, with face blacked out to prevent future identification) as he seized the operator of the roulette table at the Ritz Bar after a sweeping...
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Two Men after Vice Raid

Date: 08 04 1942
Description: John W. Roach, Chief of the State Beverage Tax Division, (left) and Sheriff Sam Giovanoni, on right, snapped after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area esta...
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Swearing-In 48 Agents

Date: 08 04 1942
Description: Scene in rural schoolyard as Sheriff Sam Giovanoni swore in 48 Beverage Tax Agents as Iron County Deputies on Tuesday night, just before a a sweeping raid ...
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Horse-Drawn Vehicles

Date: 1903
Description: View towards vehicles in the street, including hearses, and horses from the Burton House Livery parked along the curb in front of storefronts. Men stand ho...
Postcard

Windsor Mine Shaft on Fire

Date: 05 02 1910
Description: The postcard shows billowing smoke from the Hurley, Wisconsin Windsor mine shaft. Two men who were in the mine at the time lost their lives. A group of boy...
Postcard

Beaver Lodge

Date: 1953
Description: View towards a man wearing a hat and tall boots who is standing with his hand on a large wheel, perhaps a mill wheel, which is leaning against trees on the...
Photograph

Location Shooting for "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 1961
Description: A man standing on a log cart, holding the reins for a horse team. Other people are in the foreground and background. Shopfronts for Tiny's Saloon and Brigg...
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Location Shooting for "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 1961
Description: A film production crew operating a camera crane in front of a street scene, with signs for Tiny's Saloon, Briggs Saloon, and Wm. "Pop" Wiener, Auctioneer. ...
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Settlement Along A Railway with Locomotive

Date: 1900
Description: A camp or settlement located along a railway in Iron County, WI. Residents and a dog are pictured in the foreground, with a locomotive in the background ne...

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