Date: | 04 05 1919 |
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Description: | Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre... |
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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: | 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 ... |
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Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. Elevated view of a man working with a hand jig. Caption reads:... |
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Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A group of young men are shown mining underground. Caption rea... |
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Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A jig room is shown with a miner. Caption reads: "Typical Jig-... |
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Description: | Webb City was known as the world's largest and most productive lead and zinc mining field in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was part of the "Tri-State ... |
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Description: | Men work with the coke ovens at the coal mine. Caption reads: "Coke Manufacturing Scene, Near Bluefield, West Virginia." |
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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: | Black and white drawing of the great seal of the state of Wisconsin. A mariner and a miner stand on either side of a quartered shield topped by a badger an... |
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Description: | Group portrait of workers posing outside a mine, probably in Hurley, Wisconsin. Three young boys stand behind the group among stacks of logs. |
Date: | 06 06 1977 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "(Photo#TF-1539) -- Diesel engine of International Scout Terra pickup at Morton Salt Company's mine at Grand Saline, Tex., must be ... |
Date: | 06 06 1977 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "(Photo #TF-1540) -- Miner (foreground) at Morton Salt Company's operation near Grand Saline, Tex., services helmet lights as Mine ... |
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Description: | An illustration of miners at the bottom of a mine filling a bucket to be lifted to the surface. One man is calling upwards. |
Date: | 1845 |
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Description: | Drawing of Shullsburg. Text at bottom reads: "Smelting lead ore in log furnaces. Scene in Gratiots Grove at Shullsburg, Wis. in 1845-6. Drawn from life. By... |
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Description: | 1881 version of the Coat of Arms of the State of Wisconsin. |
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