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| Date: | 06 18 1925 |
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| Description: | Two International delivery trucks leaving premises of the Goddard Fuel Company. The company's building and trucks carry advertising for "Hanna Coal" which... |
| Date: | 11 28 1922 |
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| Description: | Newly constructed doctor's office. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed in the mines of its subsidiary, ... |
| 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: | 04 05 1919 |
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| Description: | Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre... |
| Date: | 03 19 1919 |
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| Description: | Small steam engine hauling empty cars over a bridge along a narrow gauge railroad track. Houses in a residential neighborhood are in the background. The tr... |
| Date: | 01 06 1919 |
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| Description: | Residential neighborhood. Caption reads: "Building Site East". Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed in t... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | The county and city of Florence were named for Florence Hulst, the wife of an early settler. This view illustrates the two industries, mining and lumbering... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad, with a pile of logs in the foreground and docked ships in the background. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad. Large logs, buildings and a railroad bridge are in the foreground. |
| 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. |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of mining operations. Caption reads: "'A Busy Corner' of Platteville." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Empire zinc and lead mine. Very litle lead is now produced. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | YMCA building, with Benham Hotel and mountains in thevbackground. Benham was an International Harvester "company town." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A young boy standing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A family of five posing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham. |
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