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Iron Mine

Date: 08 1880
Description: Men working in an iron mine.
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Child Laborers

Date: 
Description: Group of boys in work clothes assembled outside a mine.
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Stearns Company Strike

Date: 1975
Description: Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w...
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Union Ore Miner

Date: 
Description: An African American ore miner, holding a large tool and smoking a cigarette. A pin that reads, "Mine-Mill-CIO" is attached to his hardhat.
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DR-60 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: Two men use a DR-60 truck owned by J. Robert Bazley, Inc. to dump coal taken from Pennsylvania coal strippings into a chute leading to railroad cars. The m...
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Wilber William Warner

Date: 11 18 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Wilber William Warner, Madison miner and merchant.
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Star Mines Company Truck

Date: 1948
Description: An International KB-8-F dump truck owned by the Empire-Star Mines Company, Limited, parked in front of several buildings with its bed raised to ore(?). A m...
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Water Pumps in Mine

Date: 1939
Description: International PA-100 power unit operating a Pomona water pump in a lead and zinc mine. A box labeled "dynamite" is in the foreground.
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Mineral Mining Corporation

Date: 08 1938
Description: Mine building at a gold and mica mine operated by the Mineral Mining Corporation. A body of water is in the foreground on the left side of a partially cons...
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Coshocton Black Coal Company

Date: 08 15 1938
Description: A man standing with a dog near an International truck under a building owned by the Coshocton Black Coal Company. The company used PA-50 and 100K Morgan Ga...
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Peacock Coal Company

Date: 08 15 1938
Description: Buildings owned by the Peacock Coal Company. A man is standing beside a small wooden structure on the side of a hill. There is a ramp angling up and away f...
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International U-7 Power Unit at Mine

Date: 1939
Description: A man standing near an International U-7 power unit used to operate a drum hoist which pulls cars up a 500 foot slope from a mine.
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Mine Opening

Date: 1939
Description: View of a railroad track leading to the opening of a mine shaft. Logs or felled trees are lying on either side of the opening.
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Man with Mine Car

Date: 1939
Description: A miner fastening a chain to a mining car in order to be pulled from the shaft by a drum hoist. The drum hoist was powered by an International U-7 power un...
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Flat Cars Outside Ohio Mine

Date: 01 19 1938
Description: Two men standing next to mining cars near the opening of the Beam & Merritt mine as an International PA-50 power unit is installed.
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Story and McDade Coal Mine Operation

Date: 01 19 1938
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...
Poster

Fighting Men Need Fighting Metal! - Thousands More Miners Needed!

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Metal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience...
Poster

Coal Is "Fighting Power" - Thousands More Miners Needed!

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Coal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience ...
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Cahoon Mine

Date: 10 19 1925
Description: A workman smokes a cigarette in the foreground as a steam shovel loads iron ore at the Cahoon Mine.
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Mastadon Skull

Date: 1904
Description: A mastodon skull unearthed at Quartz Creek at a depth of 42 feet. Photograph taken at Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. Text on photograph reads: "Copyrigh...

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