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Mine No. 2 Tipple Site

Date: 05 03 1919
Description: Men working around 500 ton bin piers and tipple site of mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the W...
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Workers and Steam Shovel in the Mud

Date: 1919
Description: Workers standing outdoors in the mud with a steam shovel. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin S...
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Mining Building

Date: 1910
Description: An old, dilapidated mining building surrounded by a field.
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Mining-Engineering Building

Date: 1933
Description: View from across street of building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A sign on a striped post reads: "Look Out for The Cars."
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Conveyor at Roth Gravel Pit

Date: 02 16 1931
Description: Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Co. conveyor belt loading gravel into hopper which is filling a C.E. & P.A. Roth truck at their gravel pit, 1910 Roth Street ne...
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York Iron Works

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Description: York Iron Works with a view of the blast furnace. On the hill is the boardinghouse and the dance hall. A man is working near the railroad cars, and other p...
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York Iron Works

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Description: View across river of York Iron Works. On the hill are the boardinghouse and dance hall. Just below the boardinghouse there appears to be a quarry.
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Man in Boat by York Iron Works

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Description: View down hill of man posed sitting in a boat near the bank of a river taken from an iron mound of the York Iron Works. There is a view of the blast furnac...
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Limestone Quarry on Quarry Road

Date: 1993
Description: Elevated view of trucks and conveyor belts working in the background of a limestone quarry. Grass and plants with small blossoms are in the foreground at t...

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