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| 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. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of Tenpin Alley (rear) active in lead mining days. |
| 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. |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of a lead mine showing two miners kneeling with candles in their hands. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the Gratiot homestead at Gratiot's Grove Site. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Gratiot homestead at Gratiot's Grove Site. Handwriting on front reads: "The Gratiot Homestead at the (?)on." |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Single helical gear train that is a component of a gold mine hoist. This unit was purchased and used by Homestake Mining of Lead, South Dakota. Falk captio... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Large brick kiln-like structure in field. Built in 1876, the blast furnace was used to salvage additional lead from the slag of 18 area furnaces operating ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of a marker commemorating Old Helena. |
| Date: | 11 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of funeral and tent/morgue from the Cherry Mine disaster. Caption reads: "#37 Cherry Mine Horror Showing Morgue Dunham Photo Princeto... |
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