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Visitors to the Iron Ridge Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold...
Postcard

Orphans of Mine Disaster

Date: 11 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of a posed group of orphan children of miners from mine disaster, Nov. 13, 1909. Caption reads: "#31 Group made orphans by Cherry Min...
Photograph

Ruins of Fan House and Escape Shaft

Date: 11 13 1909
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.
Photograph

Company House at Benham

Date: 1919
Description: A young boy standing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham.
Photograph

Company House and Family in Benham

Date: 1919
Description: A family of five posing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham.
Photograph

Child Laborers

Date: 
Description: Group of boys in work clothes assembled outside a mine.
Photograph

Stearns Company Strike

Date: 1975
Description: Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w...
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...
Print

Pennsylvania Coal & Supply Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Pennsylvania Coal & Supply Company, with the company trademark: the initials "P" and "C" printed in red ink, and a head and shoulders ima...
Photograph

Boys on a Donkey

Date: 1901
Description: Group portrait of three boys sitting on a donkey.

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