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Church in Cassville

Date: 1930
Description: Winter scene overlooking town, showing Baptist church in background.
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Two Miners with Candles

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of a lead mine showing two miners kneeling with candles in their hands.
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Interior of Lead Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Five miners inside a lead mine.
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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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Blockhouse Mine

Date: 1940
Description: Blockhouse lead mine with cows grazing.
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Surface Digging

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Description: Lead mining by digging at the ground surface.
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Down in the Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Miners in the bowels of a lead mine.
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Prospecting for Lead

Date: 06 1949
Description: Gophering, or prospecting for lead using a windlass at Maplewood Farm.
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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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Cornish Miner's Homes in British Hollow

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Description: Cornish miner's homes on a hill, with surrounding landscape.
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Uppena Home in British Hollow

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Description: Uppena home, built by Bernard Henry Uppena in 1850.
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Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
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Aerial View of Town and Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Aerial view of town. The Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. The Furnace Branch creek runs through the town in the foreground.
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Zinc Mining

Date: 1915
Description: Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin.
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Kennedy and Hoskins Mines

Date: 1920
Description: View down hill towards the Kennedy zinc and lead mine (center) and the Hoskins mine (right). Snow is on the ground.
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"Rock Church"

Date: 1910
Description: The "Rock Church". At this time there were only two churches in or near Livingston; one a Free Methodist and the other a Methodist Episcopal Church. This i...
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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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