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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Steam locomotive moving an overhead crane used to lay rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. One man is standing on the right, and another man i... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Workers and a steam railroad crane laying rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. |
| Date: | 05 03 1919 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 10 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging in a muddy trench near bridge no. 1, mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisc... |
| Date: | 06 13 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers in sub-station no. 2. The workers are operating what appears to be an electric generator. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harv... |
| Date: | 05 05 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers preparing the power house for the addition of a 1250 k.w. turbo generator. A man in the foreground is taking a drink of water from a pail. Benham w... |
| Date: | 02 22 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Three miners with a mine sprinkler inside a mine shaft. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Ste... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 21 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging an intermediate bin for mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel C... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An old, dilapidated mining building surrounded by a field. |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| 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." |
| Date: | 02 16 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Worker using an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in a mining operation. Original caption states: "owned by Possum Hollow Coal Company. Building ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of the National Zinc Separating Company grounds. There is a large mound of ores, railroad cars, industrial buildings and a tall b... |
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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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| 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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