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| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Gophering, or prospecting for lead using a windlass at Maplewood Farm. |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Gothic roofed barn with river scene painted on its roof by Frank Engebretson. |
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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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