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| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Blast furnace, also known as a Scotch hearth used in lead 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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| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Gophering, or prospecting for lead using a windlass at Maplewood Farm. |
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| Description: | Uppena home, built by Bernard Henry Uppena in 1850. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of Tenpin Alley (rear) active in lead mining days. |
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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... |
| 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: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of the front of Tenpin Alley, active in lead mining days. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from road of lead and zinc mines and surrounding buildings. |
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