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Football Team

Date: 1899
Description: The football team from Platteville Normal School.
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Open Hearth Lead Furnace

Date: 1872
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...
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Down in the Zinc Mine

Date: 1910
Description: Miner inside a zinc mine.
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Zinc Miners

Date: 1910
Description: Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine.
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Pit at Lead Mine

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Description: Pit at Hazel Green lead mine.
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Brewery at Potosi

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior view of the brewery in Potosi with cars parked along the street.
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Zinc Mining

Date: 1915
Description: Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin.
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Miners at Diner

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Description: Zinc miners at tables in the dining hall near.
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Mine Shaft

Date: 1929
Description: Elevated view of a shaft house at a zinc mine.
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Man with Horse and Buggy

Date: 1894
Description: Man in coat and top hat holding the harness of a horse attached to a buggy.
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Music Store

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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.
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Boscobel Meat Market

Date: 1905
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...
Postcard

Cordova Castle in Eagle Cave

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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."
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Lower Valley Farms in Castle Rock

Date: 1930
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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M.M. Rice Farm

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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 ...
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Big Sand Cave

Date: 1937
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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Men in Castle Rock Cave

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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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Castle Rock Cave

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Description: View of a large chamber in Castle Rock Cave.

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