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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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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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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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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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Zinc Mining

Date: 1915
Description: Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin.
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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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Little Grant School District #12 School Building

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Description: View down hill of a teacher standing in an open doorway, with students standing and sitting on the wooden landing of a clapboard one-room school building. ...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: A teacher and students are posing on the landing of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. On the right is a stack of firewood, and a hill rises steeply in the ...
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Unidentified Men and Girl

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Description: Two unidentified men and a young girl posing outside what is possibly a one-room schoolhouse.
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Workmen with Horses Working on an Excavating Project

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Description: Photographic postcard of workmen and young boys posing with horses and hand tools. They are working on an excavating project near Boscobel.
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Public School

Date: 1921
Description: View up hill of two men standing at the entrance of the public school. There is a hand-pump near the entrance, and a bell tower on the roof of the school.
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Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View from street of row of shops on along an unpaved street. A car drives on the street. A sign in the distances reads, "Brittingham and Hixon Lumber."
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Cheese Factory

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Description: A man poses outdoors in front of a cheese factory. Behind him next to the building is a large wooden tub on stilts, perhaps for holding water.
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New Bridge Across the Wisconsin River

Date: 10 1927
Description: View along shoreline of construction of the New Free bridge. Men work on and below the wooden bridge, which is partially constructed. A crane is on the bri...
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Miners with Candles and Lanterns

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of a lead mine. The five miners are holding candles or lanterns.
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Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...

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