Date: | 08 03 1916 |
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Description: | United Mine Workers Journal of Indianapolis, Indiana, with illustration of a skeleton with a scythe. The caption reads: "After two years--who wants me?" |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Andrew Chippa hired on with Markle & Co., miners of anthracite coal to pay off his father's debt of $54 to the company store since his father's death in th... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners. |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | View of an ore dock on Chequamegon Bay. Buildings on the shore of the bay can be seen, however, not the water. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Caption reads: "Mammoth Ore Docks, Ashland, Wis." A building and roads are in the foreground. Several ore ships can be seen. |
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Description: | Cornish miner's homes on a hill, with surrounding landscape. |
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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... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | View down hill towards the Kennedy zinc and lead mine (center) and the Hoskins mine (right). Snow is on the ground. |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | Two men in oxygen helmets outside of the Cherry, Illinois, mining disaster. |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | The ruins of the fan house and escape shaft after a mining disaster at Cherry mine. A group of men and children are standing in the foreground. |
Date: | 11 28 1935 |
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Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking. |
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Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking. |
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Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Works of America, speaking at a hearing. |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | The top of the shot tower shaft with the entrance. The sign on the railing reads: "Do Not Throw Anything Down This Shaft". |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | The tunnel at the bottom of the shot tower shaft. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A view from a bluff on Tower HIll overlooking the Wisconsin River. A sign on the right reads: "Shot Shaft". |
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