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Lead Mine Interior

Date: 1930
Description: View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track.
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Prospecting for Lead

Date: 06 1949
Description: Gophering, or prospecting for lead using a windlass at Maplewood Farm.
Map or Atlas

Lead Region of Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: An ink on tracing paper, hand-drawn map that shows lead mines, the boundary of the lead bearing strata, and the military road in Lafayette, Grant, Iowa, an...
Map or Atlas

Etats Unis de l'Amerique

Date: 1800
Description: Map of the United States. It shows the states, including Tennessee, cities, towns, Native American land, mountains, lakes, and rivers. Lead mines appear ju...
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Uppena Home in British Hollow

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Description: Uppena home, built by Bernard Henry Uppena in 1850.
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Lead and Zinc Mining

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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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Mining Scene

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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...
Photograph

Water Pumps in Mine

Date: 1939
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.
Photograph

Miners using a Pioneer Windlass

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Description: Early Wisconsin lead miners using a Pioneer Windlass.
Photograph

Down in the Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Miners in the bowels of a lead mine.
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Two Miners with Candles

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of a lead mine showing two miners kneeling with candles in their hands.
Photograph

Underground Mining for Lead and Zinc

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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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Visiting a Lead Mine

Date: 1950
Description: Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted.
Print

Hughlett's Smelting Furnace

Date: 05 1866
Description: Engraved exterior view of a smelting furnace with a small group of men with horses gathered in front.
Photograph

Lead and Zinc Mining

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Description: Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world.
Photograph

Lead and Zinc Mining

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Description: Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world.
Photograph

Miners Grading Ore

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Description: Miners probably grading galena (lead) ore by putting pieces in drums with holes and letting smaller ones fall through.
Map or Atlas

Map of the property of New Diggings & Shullsburg Mining Company

Date: 1858
Description: This 1858 map shows mine shafts, lead veins, and topography on the property of the New Diggings and Shullsburg Mining Company in Section 5 of Township 1 N....
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Mammouth and Standard Mining Mills

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Description: The Mammoth and Standard Mining Mills has been producing silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper continuously since 1884. Caption reads: "Mammouth and Standard...
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Lead and Zinc Mine

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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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