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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: | Two miners at work with shovel and hammer inside International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. |
| 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: | 04 21 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging an intermediate bin for mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel C... |
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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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two workers in coveralls and hardhats underground at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine near Hibbing, Minnesota. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two workers, both in overalls and hardhats, use tools underground at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota. One man uses a drill wh... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A man uses a hammer and chisel to work at Hawkins Mine, while another man stands behind him. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face. |
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| Description: | Group of miners posed on a platform near an iron mine. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Metal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Coal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience ... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men standing in front of a pile of timber or possibly a broken down log cabin associated with the Leighton-Wyoming mining operation. |
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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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| Description: | Men work with the coke ovens at the coal mine. Caption reads: "Coke Manufacturing Scene, Near Bluefield, West Virginia." |
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| Description: | Group portrait of miners posing by #1 shaft just north of "G" Pabst. The man on the far left is Joe Iafolla. |
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