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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from road of lead and zinc mines and surrounding buildings. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Cross section drawing of a Wisconsin lead mine. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of miners and hillside mines in the Lead Region. Caption reads: "Sketch of the Lead Region." |
| Date: | 05 1866 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of two men in a train locomotive observing the weighing of pig lead. Several bars of lead are stacked near the scale. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | International PA-100 power unit operating a Pomona water pump in a lead and zinc mine. A box labeled "dynamite" is in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Early Wisconsin lead miners using a Pioneer Windlass. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of a lead mine showing two miners kneeling with candles in their hands. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted. |
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| Description: | Miners probably grading galena (lead) ore by putting pieces in drums with holes and letting smaller ones fall through. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | A man is running his dog on a trail in an old lead mining area. The trees are bare and fallen leaves are covering the ground. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | This is a reproduction of a map originally published in 1829 by R.W. Chandler, a pioneer settler of Galena. It is based on an earlier map by surveyor Luciu... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the Gratiot homestead at Gratiot's Grove Site. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
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| Description: | Miners and a mule work outside an iron mine near Mayville. |
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