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| Date: | 01 13 1919 |
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| Description: | Office and company store. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel Company. Wisconsin Steel wa... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from off the road of a mine near Linden. A road sign alerts drivers that the State Truck Highway 39 is one mine away. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | YMCA building, with Benham Hotel and mountains in thevbackground. Benham was an International Harvester "company town." |
| Date: | 11 02 1918 |
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| Description: | Residential building site near railroad tracks, looking west. Several houses are under construction. Benham was a "company town" created by International H... |
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| Description: | Cornish miner's homes on a hill, with surrounding landscape. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Empire zinc and lead mine. Very litle lead is now produced. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 03 19 1919 |
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| Description: | Small steam engine hauling empty cars over a bridge along a narrow gauge railroad track. Houses in a residential neighborhood are in the background. The tr... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating mining building seen from across a field. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View of an ore dock on Chequamegon Bay. Buildings on the shore of the bay can be seen, however, not the water. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad, with a pile of logs in the foreground and docked ships in the background. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Ashland Mine. Railroad tracks and piles of lumber are in the foreground, and chimneys spew smoke from buildings in the background. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad. Large logs, buildings and a railroad bridge are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Copeland Mine. Entry building, with tram tracks suspended high on scaffolding and piles of rocks below. |
| Date: | 11 28 1922 |
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| Description: | Newly constructed doctor's office. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed in the mines of its subsidiary, ... |
| Date: | 01 06 1919 |
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| Description: | Residential neighborhood. Caption reads: "Building Site East". Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed in t... |
| Date: | 10 02 1961 |
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| Description: | View of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company plant. The sky is cloudy and smoke obscures some of the stacks. Railroad cars can be are on the righ... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of James Mine with a field and fence in the foreground. Tram tracks lead from the tall building to large piles of rocks. There are steep stai... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Hurley, WI and nearby industrial sites (Scott & Howe Lumber Co. Mill, Ashland Mine). Inventory reads: "Looking west and a little south ove... |
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