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| Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | The county and city of Florence were named for Florence Hulst, the wife of an early settler. This view illustrates the two industries, mining and lumbering... |
| Date: | 09 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Two new West Kentucky Coal Co. 1.5 ton International trucks in front of piles of Wesco Royal Red Ash coal at the coal yards at 1433 Monroe Street. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad, with a pile of logs in the foreground and docked ships in the background. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad. Large logs, buildings and a railroad bridge are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View of an ore dock on Chequamegon Bay. Buildings on the shore of the bay can be seen, however, not the water. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Mammoth Ore Docks, Ashland, Wis." A building and roads are in the foreground. Several ore ships can be seen. |
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| Description: | Cornish miner's homes on a hill, with surrounding landscape. |
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| Description: | An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards the Kennedy zinc and lead mine (center) and the Hoskins mine (right). Snow is on the ground. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A painting of an archaic Indian mining for copper. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating mining building seen from across a field. |
| Date: | 10 02 1961 |
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| Description: | View of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company plant. The sky is cloudy and smoke obscures some of the stacks. Railroad cars can be are on the righ... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | The shot tower at Tower Hill State Park. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The top of the shot tower shaft with the entrance. The sign on the railing reads: "Do Not Throw Anything Down This Shaft". |
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