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| 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. |
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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: | 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. |
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| Description: | Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe. |
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| Description: | Group of miners posed on a platform near an iron mine. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an iron ore ship unloading. Several workers are on board the ship. Caption reads: "Unloading Iron Ore At Sparrows Point, MD." |
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| Description: | Cornwall Ore Banks includes one of the greatest iron mines in the world and it has been mined for more than two centuries. A steam shovel is shown loading ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a steam shovel scooping iron ore into cars at, the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine. |
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| Description: | A Marion Shovel, Model 300, produced by the Winston-Dear Company, likely in Marion, Ohio, is put to use at the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, in Hibbing, Minneso... |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. Elevated view of a man working with a hand jig. Caption reads:... |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A group of young men are shown mining underground. Caption rea... |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A jig room is shown with a miner. Caption reads: "Typical Jig-... |
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| Description: | Webb City was known as the world's largest and most productive lead and zinc mining field in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was part of the "Tri-State ... |
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