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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...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Advertisement

Date: 1900
Description: Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i...
Photograph

Scout Terra Diesel Engine

Date: 06 06 1977
Description: Original caption reads: "(Photo#TF-1539) -- Diesel engine of International Scout Terra pickup at Morton Salt Company's mine at Grand Saline, Tex., must be ...
Photograph

International Scout Terra in Morton Salt Company's Mine

Date: 06 06 1977
Description: Original caption reads: "(Photo #TF-1540) -- Miner (foreground) at Morton Salt Company's operation near Grand Saline, Tex., services helmet lights as Mine ...
Print

Miners

Date: 
Description: An illustration of miners at the bottom of a mine filling a bucket to be lifted to the surface. One man is calling upwards.
Photograph

Mary Lou Munts

Date: 1976
Description: Mary Lou Munts visiting a mine in Ontario.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

Date: 
Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky
Photograph

VF-192 Tandem Dump Truck

Date: 1956
Description: International VF-192 tandem dump truck with load of coal. Powered by V8-478 CID gas engine. Painted on the driver's side door: "Black Nugget Coal Mining Co...
Photograph

TD-24 Torque Converter Tractor

Date: 
Description: Original caption reads: "TD-24 Torque Converter Tractor push loads a 24 and B-250 27 /12 hd. scraper combination in hard fire clay whilst a gear driven-24 ...
Photograph

Coal Miners at Mine Entrance

Date: 1903
Description: View down set of two railroad tracks towards four coal miners posing in front of a mine entrance near a coal car. The caption in the book reads, "Strike-br...
Map or Atlas

Amplissimæ Regionis Mississipi seu Provinciæ Ludovicianæ: A R. P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss in America Septentrionali anno 1687

Date: 1720
Description: Detailed, ornate, and comprehensive map of America from the east coast to present day Texas. Numerous features appear throughout the map, including Native ...
Photograph

Crew of the Optimal Mine

Date: 1895
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the miners who work at Optimal Mine. They are seated outdoors on the grass, and are wearing work clothes and hats.
Photograph

Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Men driving tractors pulling trailers, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine. On the far right is a steam shovel.
Photograph

Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Man driving tractor pulling a trailer, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine.
Photograph

Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Men are driving industrial tractors pulling trailers that are being loaded at a granite quarry or mine.
Photograph

Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man driving an industrial tractor pulling a tractor that is being loaded while under a hopper at a granite quarry or mine.
Photograph

Quarry at Devil's Lake

Date: 07 1936
Description: A worker is pulling a wheelbarrow behind him while walking alongside a narrow gauge railroad track at the south end of the East Bluff near Devil's Lake. Em...
Photograph

Sand Mine

Date: 07 1936
Description: A worker is driving a Plymouth "dinky" locomotive out of the entrance of a sand mine. One full car is behind the engine.
Photograph

Side View of a Mine

Date: 
Description: Stereograph of the side view of a mine. Several horse-drawn wagons are waiting for loads with workmen. Hills of soil surround a flat area, and on the horiz...
Photograph

Florence Mine

Date: 
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of a mining operation. Men are posing on the head frame/gallows frame over the pit. One man is perching on the top of the g...

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