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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Albertype Company photographs, circa 1880s-circa 1950
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| Description: | View of living room in Jethro Coffin home. Jethro Coffin was a blacksmith and the grandson of one of the island's first white settlers, Tristam Coffin. Bui... |
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| Description: | In 1835, Washington Irving, author and historian, purchased a small Dutch farmhouse beside the Hudson River. The stone cottage would come to be called "Sun... |
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| Description: | Railroad workers pose near train engines lined up in a wooden roundhouse garage facility. The number on the train in the foreground is "1252." |
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| Description: | View of old man making baskets and an old woman sewing outside of a log cabin. Other handmade wooden items appear throughout the image and tools hang on th... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of a man standing on a ladder, using an axe on a stalk of white pearl corn which is claimed to be 25 feet tall, somewhere in Georgia. A field is in th... |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. Elevated view of a man working with a hand jig. Caption reads:... |
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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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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A jig room is shown with a miner. Caption reads: "Typical Jig-... |
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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: | Avery Island is home to the oldest salt mine in North America. A view of men working in the mines is shown. Caption reads: "Drilling Salt - Avery's Salt M... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A man stands before the greenhouse on the campus of Woodstock College in Woodstock, Maryland. A religious statue is in front of the building's entrance. |
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| Description: | A man stands on a very large tree stump with his arms crossed over his chest. At his feet, crossed, are two axes. In the background, as a contrast, are thi... |
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| Description: | The marble company employees at work in a quarry. By 1885 the Rutland quarries employed about 3,000 workers. |
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| Description: | A view of a marble quarry in Sylacauga, "The Marble City," which is constructed on a solid deposit of the hardest, whitest marble in the world. The bed is ... |
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| Description: | A quarry of Alaska Marble Company at Calder, with men at work. Photograph published by Winter and Pond Company. Caption reads: "Marble Quarry, Calder, Ala... |
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| Description: | Men work with the coke ovens at the coal mine. Caption reads: "Coke Manufacturing Scene, Near Bluefield, West Virginia." |
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| Description: | Four workers are shown in Lebanon Chain Works, the site of the production of the largest chain in the world, measuring 3 3/16 inches. |
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| Description: | The L.S. Starrett Company, a mechanical tool manufacturer, was founded in 1880. |
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| Description: | The L.S. Starrett Company, a mechanical tool manufacturer, was founded in 1880. |
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| Description: | The Union Twist Drill Company became Athol's second largest industry by 1930. The company was founded in 1905 as a manufacturer of metal cutting tools. |
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