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| Date: | 06 18 1925 |
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| Description: | Two International delivery trucks leaving premises of the Goddard Fuel Company. The company's building and trucks carry advertising for "Hanna Coal" which... |
| Date: | 09 19 1933 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 11 28 1935 |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The top of the shot tower shaft with the entrance. The sign on the railing reads: "Do Not Throw Anything Down This Shaft". |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The tunnel at the bottom of the shot tower shaft. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View from the bluff at Tower Hill State Park of the Wisconsin River. A sign on the right reads: "Tower Hill State Park Shot Shaft". |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A marker at the former site of the smelter which stood at the top of the shot tower shaft. The sign reads: "Tower Hill State Park The Old Shot Tower At thi... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Tower Hill State Park trail leading to the top of the shot tower shaft. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | International PA-100 power unit operating a Pomona water pump in a lead and zinc mine. A box labeled "dynamite" is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An outdoor exhibit, possibly at Tower Hill State Park, with a display featuring a "pig of lead" found near the shot tower there. There is also a bronze pla... |
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| Description: | A 300 ton steam shovel scooping iron ore 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... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards large mounds of raw material at National Zinc Separating Company plant. Industrial buildings and a railroad car and an au... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Entrance of the tunnel to the bottom of the shot tower. There is graffiti around the entrance. |
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| Description: | Black and white drawing of the great seal of the state of Wisconsin. A mariner and a miner stand on either side of a quartered shield topped by a badger an... |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 07 25 1927 |
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| Description: | Man driving tractor pulling a trailer, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine. |
| Date: | 07 25 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are driving industrial tractors pulling trailers that are being loaded at a granite quarry or mine. |
| Date: | 07 25 1927 |
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| 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. |
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