Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Interior of a lead mine showing two miners kneeling with candles in their hands. |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track. |
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Description: | Miners and a mule work outside an iron mine near Mayville. |
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... |
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Description: | John L. Lewis, in miner's hat, after West Frankfort, Illinois, mine disaster. |
Date: | 05 1866 |
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Description: | Engraved exterior view of a smelting furnace with a small group of men with horses gathered in front. |
Date: | 1853 |
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Description: | Engraved view of miners and hillside mines in the Lead Region. Caption reads: "Sketch of the Lead Region." |
Date: | 1853 |
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Description: | Engraved exterior view of a lead mining furnace. A man sits in a horse-drawn wagon at the left of the building. |
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Description: | Early Wisconsin lead miners using a Pioneer Windlass. |
Date: | 06 1949 |
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Description: | Gophering, or prospecting for lead using a windlass at Maplewood Farm. |
Date: | 05 1866 |
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Description: | Engraved view of two men in a train locomotive observing the weighing of pig lead. Several bars of lead are stacked near the scale. |
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... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Blast furnace, also known as a Scotch hearth used in lead mining. |
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