Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track. |
Date: | 11 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of funeral and tent/morgue from the Cherry Mine disaster. Caption reads: "#37 Cherry Mine Horror Showing Morgue Dunham Photo Princeto... |
Date: | 11 1909 |
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Description: | Group portrait of a family. Caption reads: "W.H. Clelland and Family. One of the Cherry Mine survivers [sic]. It is this man who was said to have le... |
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... |
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Description: | Miners probably grading galena (lead) ore by putting pieces in drums with holes and letting smaller ones fall through. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted. |
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Description: | Uppena home, built by Bernard Henry Uppena in 1850. |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Large brick kiln-like structure in field. Built in 1876, the blast furnace was used to salvage additional lead from the slag of 18 area furnaces operating ... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | View of the Gratiot homestead at Gratiot's Grove Site. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Gratiot homestead at Gratiot's Grove Site. Handwriting on front reads: "The Gratiot Homestead at the (?)on." |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | International PA-100 power unit operating a Pomona water pump in a lead and zinc mine. A box labeled "dynamite" is in the foreground. |
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Description: | The 120 foot shot shaft below the shot tower at Tower Hill State Park. |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | A man is running his dog on a trail in an old lead mining area. The trees are bare and fallen leaves are covering the ground. |
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