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International Coal Trucks Leaving Goddard Fuel Company

Date: 06 18 1925
Description: Two International delivery trucks leaving premises of the Goddard Fuel Company. The company's building and trucks carry advertising for "Hanna Coal" which...
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Power House Excavation

Date: 05 05 1919
Description: Workers preparing the power house for the addition of a 1250 k.w. turbo generator. A man in the foreground is taking a drink of water from a pail. Benham w...
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West Kentucky Coal Company Trucks

Date: 09 19 1933
Description: Two new West Kentucky Coal Co. 1.5 ton International trucks in front of piles of Wesco Royal Red Ash coal at the coal yards at 1433 Monroe Street.
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YMCA and Hotel

Date: 1919
Description: YMCA building, with Benham Hotel and mountains in thevbackground. Benham was an International Harvester "company town."
Photograph

Mineral Mining Corporation

Date: 08 1938
Description: Mine building at a gold and mica mine operated by the Mineral Mining Corporation. A body of water is in the foreground on the left side of a partially cons...
Photograph

P & R Coal Storage Yard

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Description: Elevated view of the P & R coal storage yard, with railroad tracks winding around a curve at the foot of a small hill. The coal yard and buildings are at t...
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P & R Coal Storage Yard

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Description: View of the P & R coal storage yard, including railroad tracks and coal storage building. Hills are in the background.
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Old Hotel

Date: 02 1925
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 ...
Map or Atlas

Douglas County, Wisconsin Showing Copper Bearing Formation

Date: 1899
Description: This 1899 map of Douglas County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities, villages and railroad stations, mines, roads, railr...
Map or Atlas

Profile from Summit of Blue Mound 3 Miles South

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows profile and geological formation of Blue Mound and location of Arnold’s Hotel and Brigham Lead Mines.
Map or Atlas

Iron mines in T.11 R.16, Dodge Co., Wis.

Date: 1870
Description: This map is ink and color on tracing cloth and shows Iron Ridge, the hotel and saw mill at Iron Ridge Village, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, plank road, an...
Photograph

Green Bay

Date: 12 16 1957
Description: View across water, with cranes among piles of coal along the right, and among piles of other materials on the left. Smoke is in the distance on the right, ...
Print

Pennsylvania Coal & Supply Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Pennsylvania Coal & Supply Company, with the company trademark: the initials "P" and "C" printed in red ink, and a head and shoulders ima...
Map or Atlas

Profile [of Blue Mounds]

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows a profile and the geological formation of Blue Mound. Also shown is the location of Arnold's Hotel and Br...
Photograph

Western Town

Date: 1903
Description: Caption on negative sleeve reads, "Mining (?) town with view of saloon, restaurant and general store." A boardwalk runs along the fronts of the buildings. ...

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