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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.
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.
Postcard

Loading Freighters

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards three ore boats at the Soo Line Railroad dock being loaded with iron ore. The first in line is the William B. Pilkey.
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

Men, Railroad Tracks and Ore Carts

Date: 
Description: Stereograph of four men standing with ore carts. Two more men are standing on the left near a pile of square timbers, and another man is standing on the ri...
Photograph

UD-9A — Mines

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-9A — Mines." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Pikesville Coal. Co., Pikesville, Tenn. It powers a Street Bros. ...
Drawing

Smelting Lead Ore

Date: 1845
Description: Drawing of Shullsburg. Text at bottom reads: "Smelting lead ore in log furnaces. Scene in Gratiots Grove at Shullsburg, Wis. in 1845-6. Drawn from life. By...
Drawing

A Bird's Eye View of Shullsburg in 1838

Date: 1838
Description: Drawing of Shullsburg. There is a numbered key on the left that reads, at top: "Explanation. Nos. Denote present Site." Streets are named on the map and ma...
Photograph

UD-16 — Generators

Date: 1950
Description: View of Coal Mine. Subject: "UD-16 — Generators." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Used by the Big 4 Coal Co., Ottumwa, Iowa, to dr...
Print

Wisconsin Coat of Arms

Date: 
Description: 1881 version of the Coat of Arms of the State of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Shoot the Chute

Date: 1953
Description: The chute is equipped with rail for the carts that haul the limestone at the Lime Kiln.
Book or Pamphlet

Map Showing Producing Properties

Date: 1911
Description: Map of states in the United States, as well as inset maps of Russia, France, Germany and Sweden. At bottom right is a key for the map that includes: a numb...
Postcard

The Bucyrus Company

Date: 02 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "The Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis." A factory and headquarters with railroad tracks on the left. From Wikipedia "Bucyrus-Erie was...
Postcard

Ore Docks

Date: 1904
Description: Text on front reads: "Ore Docks, Superior, Wis." Elevated view of an ore carrying ship that is within the ore docks on Lake Superior.
Photograph

Looking West Towards Hurley, WI From Ironwood, MI

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of Hurley, WI and nearby industrial sites (Scott & Howe Lumber Co. Mill, Ashland Mine). Inventory reads: "Looking west and a little south ove...
Photograph

Looking East Towards Ironwood, MI From Hurley

Date: 1905
Description: Slightly elevated view of the border between Hurley, WI and Ironwood, MI. Caption reads: "Looking east from Hurley side of Montreal River near Silver Stree...

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