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| Date: | 01 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Men and ponies standing near a building and carts on railroad tracks at the Story & McDade coal mine. The mine operation was powered by an International PA... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | In the foreground on a hill two men stand with horse-drawn cart. In the far distance is Grand Encampment, Wyoming. The cart is headed to the Leighton-Wyomi... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers in the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. The mining operation stretches up onto a steep hill littered with fallen trees. A two-story cabin is on the le... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men standing with horses in front of the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A steep hill rises behind them. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men carrying dead lambs back to the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men preparing to butcher sheep at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A cabin is visible behind them on a hill. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men working at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp stand near a large building, possibly a sawmill, related to the mining operation. A steep hill rises in the... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | People gathered around a horse-drawn buggy on the dividing line between the Ferris-Hagerty property and the Leighton-Wyoming mines. Harry Dankoler is to th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Deadbroke Mining Company nestled in a valley. In the foreground are a small number of dwellings and roads, and cut lumber. Caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a mining community, including numerous houses, mining structures, and large mounds of gravel material. |
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| Description: | Christmas greeting card featuring a view of a mining town with smokestacks, gravel piles, houses, large buildings and distant mountains. Surrounding the ph... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Greenback Mining Company, located in a valley and surrounded by pine trees. There are mining buildings, a large house, and a man driving a... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a copper mining camp with desert hills in the background. Caption reads: "Greatest Copper Camp in the World, Ely, Nevada." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of mining town in the desert featuring buildings and equipment tucked into the hilly terrain and barren rocky outcroppings. |
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| Description: | Distant view of a mining operation and surrounding desert hills. Caption reads: "Mining Scene, Near Mojave, Cal." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the P & R coal storage yard, with railroad tracks winding around a curve at the foot of a small hill. The coal yard and buildings are at t... |
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| Description: | View of the P & R coal storage yard, including railroad tracks and coal storage building. Hills are in the background. |
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| Description: | Evelyth, a rapidly growing mining city, began exporting its iron ore in 1884. |
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| Description: | The Hull Rust Mahoning Mine was mainly used for its supply of taconite, a low-grade ore that only came into demand after the high-grade natural iron ore wa... |
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| Description: | A 300 ton steam shovel scooping iron ore at the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine. |
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