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Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Worker at a Hawkins Mine machine shop checking a measurement on a large casting under a trouble light. Hawkins Mine was a subsidiary of International Harve... |
Date: | 11 02 1918 |
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Description: | Residential building site near railroad tracks, looking west. Several houses are under construction. Benham was a "company town" created by International H... |
Date: | 01 13 1919 |
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Description: | Office and company store. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel Company. Wisconsin Steel wa... |
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. |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | A deteriorating mining building seen from across a field. |
Date: | 10 02 1961 |
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Description: | View of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company plant. The sky is cloudy and smoke obscures some of the stacks. Railroad cars can be are on the righ... |
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". |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Tower Hill State Park trail leading to the top of the shot tower shaft. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | The Empire zinc and lead mine. Very litle lead is now produced. |
Date: | 10 04 1928 |
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Description: | Panoramic view of Hawkins Mine, with railroad tracks in the foreground. Buildings and a water tower are in the distance. |
Date: | 09 10 1910 |
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Description: | Men work on a partially finished cabin in the woods. Snow-covered tree trunks litter the clearing around the cabin. The cabin is being built in conjunction... |
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Description: | Christmas greeting card featuring a view of a mining town with smokestacks, gravel piles, houses, large buildings and distant mountains. Surrounding the ph... |
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Description: | Evelyth, a rapidly growing mining city, began exporting its iron ore in 1884. |
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Description: | The Hull Rust Mahoning Mine was mainly used for its supply of taconite, a low-grade ore that only came into demand after the high-grade natural iron ore wa... |
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Description: | A steam shovel loading ore at the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine. Published by J.C. Congdon. |
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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. |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Holiday card of the history of the State of Wisconsin, 1848-1948. Shows a map of Wisconsin with many historical and themed elements. Image was created by w... |
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