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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of several ships at the ore docks of Maryland Steel Company. Text on the ship on the left may read "Craigeab" (text is difficult to make out). The nam... |
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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: | Two miners in the interior of a mine. Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. Caption reads: "Undergro... |
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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: | Between 1883 and 1889, the twenty mule teams, such as this one, hauled more than 20 million pounds of borax out of Death Valley. The borax load was hauled ... |
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| Description: | Four men stand around a sulphur bin with a massive cliff behind it at Freeport Sulphur Company, founded in 1912. |
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| Description: | Mules and wagons can be seen with men on a rock bank while mining. Caption reads: "Rock Bank." |
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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: | Workers stand near an automobile and pack of mules in Mariscal Mine. The mine produced 1,400 flasks of mercury, 1/4 of the US production, between 1900 and ... |
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| Description: | A man stands outside the rock crusher at the Wisconsin Granite Company quarry. To the right, railroad tracks span the side of the building. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Men and women seated on benches along both walls of Kenneth Crook's Uranium Tunnel in Lone Rock. Note the uranium pads visitors hold in their laps or on th... |
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| Description: | View down Tennessee Avenue, with the locations of mines marked in the hills in the distance. Men walk past shops on either side of the avenue. |
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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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| Description: | The blacksmiths of the mining company pose in their shop with the tools of their trade. The man on the right holding a sledgehammer is probably Dave Endriz... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Tobin Exploring, Mining & Manufacturing Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with a scene of men with picks, shovels, and other tools working i... |
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