Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine. |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the brewery in Potosi with cars parked along the street. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Man in coat and top hat holding the harness of a horse attached to a buggy. |
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Description: | Interior view of a music shop with phonographs, violins, phonograph records displayed on the wall, and wax cylinders lining a shelf. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho... |
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Description: | Postcard view of rock structure known as Cordova Castle in Eagle Cave. Caption reads: "'Cordova Castle,' Eagle Cave, Highway 60, Muscoda, Wis." |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Aerial view of two farms, with fields and barns in a valley. This image appeared in Joseph Schafer's 1932 book The Wisconsin Lead Region, on a photo... |
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Description: | View towards a farm at the base of a hillside, with smoke coming out of a chimney on a farmhouse, and two outbuildings. A group of eight people are posing ... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | View of the entrance to Big Sand Cave, which according to the caption is located in Nelson Dewey State Park. This dates the image to before 1937, when the ... |
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Description: | Group portrait of four men sitting inside a cave with a low ceiling. One man is holding a flashlight, and one man is smoking a pipe. A caption identifies t... |
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