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| Date: | 02 11 1925 |
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| Description: | View of the large abandoned furnace complex, left, company store, far right, and blacksmith shop behind the company store, on the site of the Jackson Iron ... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Workers' houses stand in front of the Fayette Tourists Lodge. After the Jackson Iron Company left in 1891, Fayette became a tourist destination and is now ... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man looks across Snail Shell Harbor at the remains of the Jackson Iron Company works. The large furnace complex is visible through the tree... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the abandoned Jackson Iron Company furnace complex at Fayette, on the shore of Snail Shell Harbor. Lake Michigan is in the background. |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Dolomite cliffs along Snail Shell Harbor are seen in the background between the ruined buildings of the company store, left, and the machine shop on the gr... |
| Date: | 11 1996 |
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| Description: | "What was a thriving iron ore mine at Neda is now home to some 500,000 bats. The steel cage keeps humans out, but allows access for the bats." |
| Date: | 11 1996 |
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| Description: | "A 90-foot-long culvert will serve as an entrance for researchers." |
| Date: | 11 1996 |
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| Description: | "The Neda mine has four miles of corridors over about 22 arches." |
| Date: | 11 1996 |
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| Description: | "This photo was taken deep in the Neda mine where conditions are monitored closely." |
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| Description: | Group portrait of workers posing outside a mine, probably in Hurley, Wisconsin. Three young boys stand behind the group among stacks of logs. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of James Mine with a field and fence in the foreground. Tram tracks lead from the tall building to large piles of rocks. There are steep stai... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Copeland Mine. Entry building, with tram tracks suspended high on scaffolding and piles of rocks below. |
| Date: | 11 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A hematite fan, approximately six inches in length, from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. This speci... |
| Date: | 11 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A hematite fan, approximately six inches in length, from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. This speci... |
| Date: | 11 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A cut and polished azurite malachite nodule from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. Azurite and malach... |
| Date: | 11 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A specimen of emerald in matrix from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. |
| Date: | 11 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A dogtooth calcite specimen from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. The specimen is approximately thre... |
| Date: | 05 02 1910 |
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| 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... |
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