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| Date: | 04 05 1919 |
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| Description: | Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre... |
| Date: | 03 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging a "borrow pit" for no. 2 mine with a steam shovel. The men are standing along a set of narrow gauge railroad tracks. Benham was a "company ... |
| Date: | 04 21 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging an intermediate bin for mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel C... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners. |
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| Description: | An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used... |
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| Description: | An African American ore miner, holding a large tool and smoking a cigarette. A pin that reads, "Mine-Mill-CIO" is attached to his hardhat. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men preparing to butcher sheep at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A cabin is visible behind them on a hill. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men from the Leighton-Wyoming mining operation clearing the area directly around a log cabin that is either in the process of being built or being destroye... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of miners posing by #1 shaft just north of "G" Pabst. The man on the far left is Joe Iafolla. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Tobin Exploring, Mining & Manufacturing Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with a scene of men with picks, shovels, and other tools working i... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of workers posing outside a mine, probably in Hurley, Wisconsin. Three young boys stand behind the group among stacks of logs. |
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| Description: | An illustration of miners at the bottom of a mine filling a bucket to be lifted to the surface. One man is calling upwards. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the side view of a mine. Several horse-drawn wagons are waiting for loads with workmen. Hills of soil surround a flat area, and on the horiz... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of a mining operation. Men are posing on the head frame/gallows frame over the pit. One man is perching on the top of the g... |
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