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Mining Company Blacksmiths

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Description: The blacksmiths of the mining company pose in their shop with the tools of their trade. The man on the right holding a sledgehammer is probably Dave Endriz...
Photograph

Pack Train for the Mines

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Description: View of a family posed before a pack train, heading toward the mines.
Print

Tobin Exploring, Mining & Manufacturing Company Letterhead

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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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Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin

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Description: Black and white drawing of the great seal of the state of Wisconsin. A mariner and a miner stand on either side of a quartered shield topped by a badger an...
Photograph

Lime Kiln

Date: 1968
Description: Worker stack bags of lime onto a palette.
Photograph

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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View of Fayette

Date: 02 1925
Description: An unidentified man looks across Snail Shell Harbor at the remains of the Jackson Iron Company works. The large furnace complex is visible through the tree...
Photograph

Neda Mine Bat Hibernaculum

Date: 11 1996
Description: "The Neda mine has four miles of corridors over about 22 arches."
Photograph

Neda Mine Bat Hibernaculum

Date: 11 1996
Description: "Bill Volkert, Naturalist."
Photograph

Mine and Workers

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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.
Postcard

Windsor Mine Shaft on Fire

Date: 05 02 1910
Description: The postcard shows billowing smoke from the Hurley, Wisconsin Windsor mine shaft. Two men who were in the mine at the time lost their lives. A group of boy...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Advertisement

Date: 1900
Description: Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i...
Print

Miners

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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.
Photograph

Mary Lou Munts

Date: 1976
Description: Mary Lou Munts visiting a mine in Ontario.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

Date: 
Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky
Photograph

TD-24 Torque Converter Tractor

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Description: Original caption reads: "TD-24 Torque Converter Tractor push loads a 24 and B-250 27 /12 hd. scraper combination in hard fire clay whilst a gear driven-24 ...
Photograph

Coal Miners at Mine Entrance

Date: 1903
Description: View down set of two railroad tracks towards four coal miners posing in front of a mine entrance near a coal car. The caption in the book reads, "Strike-br...
Photograph

Crew of the Optimal Mine

Date: 1895
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the miners who work at Optimal Mine. They are seated outdoors on the grass, and are wearing work clothes and hats.
Photograph

Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Men driving tractors pulling trailers, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine. On the far right is a steam shovel.
Photograph

Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Man driving tractor pulling a trailer, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine.

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