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| Description: | The Mammoth and Standard Mining Mills has been producing silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper continuously since 1884. Caption reads: "Mammouth and Standard... |
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| Description: | View of the Burke and Hecla Mine Buildings with mountains in the background. The company was incorporated in 1891. Caption reads: "Burke, ID. & Hecla Mine.... |
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| Description: | An elevated view of the Hercules Mine in a mountain setting. Mining operations began in Hercules Mine in 1889. Caption reads: "Hercules Mine — Wallace, Id... |
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| Description: | A man stands outside the rock crusher at the Wisconsin Granite Company quarry. To the right, railroad tracks span the side of the building. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from road of lead and zinc mines and surrounding buildings. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the history of the State of Wisconsin, 1848-1948. Shows a map of Wisconsin with many historical and themed elements. Image was created by w... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | International Trucks advertisement. Cover reads: "If the job calls for a Truck... it calls for an International." A caption indicates that "the truck illus... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Men and women seated on benches along both walls of Kenneth Crook's Uranium Tunnel in Lone Rock. Note the uranium pads visitors hold in their laps or on th... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Junction Mine and the surrounding neighborhood. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a town with mine locations marked in the hills in the distance. Published for The Chocolate Shop. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a town with silver-lead-zinc mine locations marked in the hills in the distance. Published for The Chocolate Shop. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a town with mine locations marked in the hills in the distance. Published for The Chocolate Shop. |
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| Description: | View down Tennessee Avenue, with the locations of mines marked in the hills in the distance. Men walk past shops on either side of the avenue. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards large mounds of raw material at National Zinc Separating Company plant. Industrial buildings and a railroad car and an au... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across field towards large mounds of raw material at National Zinc Separating Company plant. Industrial buildings are in the background. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of miners posing by #1 shaft just north of "G" Pabst. The man on the far left is Joe Iafolla. |
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| Description: | The blacksmiths of the mining company pose in their shop with the tools of their trade. The man on the right holding a sledgehammer is probably Dave Endriz... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Ashland Mine. Railroad tracks and piles of lumber are in the foreground, and chimneys spew smoke from buildings in the background. |
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| Description: | View of a family posed before a pack train, heading toward the mines. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Tobin Exploring, Mining & Manufacturing Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with a scene of men with picks, shovels, and other tools working i... |
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