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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Andrew Chippa hired on with Markle & Co., miners of anthracite coal to pay off his father's debt of $54 to the company store since his father's death in th... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners. |
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| Description: | An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used... |
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| Description: | Group of miners posed on a platform near an iron mine. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Men and women seated on benches along both walls of Kenneth Crook's Uranium Tunnel in Lone Rock. Note the uranium pads visitors hold in their laps or on th... |
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| Description: | Black and white drawing of the great seal of the state of Wisconsin. A mariner and a miner stand on either side of a quartered shield topped by a badger an... |
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| Description: | An illustration of miners at the bottom of a mine filling a bucket to be lifted to the surface. One man is calling upwards. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the miners who work at Optimal Mine. They are seated outdoors on the grass, and are wearing work clothes and hats. |
| Date: | 12 1976 |
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| Description: | A workman is welding new cleats on a "Cat" (Caterpillar excavator) at an iron mine. Smoke obscures the cab. |
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