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Brewery Wagons Delivering Beer

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Description: Brewery wagons loaded with beer barrels in foreground of the Potosi Brewery.
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Lead Mine Interior

Date: 1930
Description: View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track.
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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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Zinc Miners

Date: 1910
Description: Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine.
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D.F. Brown House in Bloomington

Date: 1890
Description: D.F. Brown house during the spring or summer, with two elm trees, three children and a woman. A picket fence runs along the sidewalk in the front of the ho...
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South Side of Canal Street

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Description: Slightly elevated view of stores on Canal Street, with people in the streeet, and along the sidewalks in front of commercial buildings. There is a Hardware...
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The "Rock School" Building

Date: 1900
Description: The "Rock School" building, with children and teachers posed outside.
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Lobby of the Denniston House Hotel

Date: 1890
Description: Interior view of the lobby. Two men are standing along the back wall.
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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
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Zinc Mining

Date: 1915
Description: Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin.
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Dedication of Historical Marker

Date: 1923
Description: This historical marker was erected in commemoration of the French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet in Wyalusing State Park. The two men ...
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Grant County Soldier's Monument

Date: 1868
Description: Elevated view of the Grant County Soldier's Monument. A group of people are standing around the monument. A large building is in the background. Caption at...
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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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Walter Goodland with John Grindell and Aloys Klaas

Date: 09 04 1943
Description: Governor Goodland conferring with District Attorney John Grindell and Sheriff Aloys Klaas about gambling in Grant County.
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Straw Lead Furnace

Date: 1880
Description: A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S...
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Mitchell-Rountree House

Date: 1930
Description: View across lawn towards the Mitchell-Rountree house. People are standing on the front steps of the house on the far right.
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First Methodist Church

Date: 1880
Description: A view of the First Methodist Church. Two men are standing in front of the church behind a fence.
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Charles Edward Shepard

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Description: Outdoor portrait of Charles Edward Shepard posing with an axe.
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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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