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Photograph

Hawkins Mine

Date: 10 04 1928
Description: Panoramic view of Hawkins Mine, with railroad tracks in the foreground. Buildings and a water tower are in the distance.
Photograph

Elevated View of Mining Company

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of Deadbroke Mining Company nestled in a valley. In the foreground are a small number of dwellings and roads, and cut lumber. Caption reads: ...
Photograph

Rock Crusher

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Description: A man stands outside the rock crusher at the Wisconsin Granite Company quarry. To the right, railroad tracks span the side of the building.
Photograph

Mine Shaft #1 and Miners

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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.
Photograph

Ashland Mine

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Description: Exterior view of the Ashland Mine. Railroad tracks and piles of lumber are in the foreground, and chimneys spew smoke from buildings in the background.
Map or Atlas

Farmer's Rail Road & Township Map of Wisconsin and Chart of the Lakes

Date: 1872
Description: This map, which includes eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and a portion of Michigan's Upper peninsula, shows the township survey grid and identifies countie...
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...
Photograph

Mining Camp

Date: 1903
Description: Elevated view of a mining camp in the western United States. At this time Carl Peterson was writing letters home to Christine Jenson about his journey.
Photograph

Looking West Towards Hurley, WI From Ironwood, MI

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of Hurley, WI and nearby industrial sites (Scott & Howe Lumber Co. Mill, Ashland Mine). Inventory reads: "Looking west and a little south ove...

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