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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A welder wearing overalls holding a protective mask in front of his face while working at Hawkins Mine. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A man uses a hammer and chisel to work at Hawkins Mine, while another man stands behind him. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 19 1938 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 09 10 1910 |
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| Description: | Men work on a partially finished cabin in the woods. Snow-covered tree trunks litter the clearing around the cabin. The cabin is being built in conjunction... |
| 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: | Workers at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. Piles of logs and boards are in the foreground. |
| 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 from the Leighton-Wyoming mining operation clearing the area directly around a log cabin that is either in the process of being built or being destroye... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an iron ore ship unloading. Several workers are on board the ship. Caption reads: "Unloading Iron Ore At Sparrows Point, MD." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of several ships at the ore docks of Maryland Steel Company. Text on the ship on the left may read "Craigeab" (text is difficult to make out). The nam... |
| 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... |
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