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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | A large upright boiler functioning as part of the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Three men are standing with machinery, likely a sawmill, peripherally related to the Leighton-Wyoming mining operation. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men working at a sawmill outdoors in the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Three men working outdoors at a sawmill in the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. In the background is a two-story industrial building. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | People gathered around a horse-drawn buggy on the dividing line between the Ferris-Hagerty property and the Leighton-Wyoming mines. Harry Dankoler is to th... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Deadbroke Mining Company nestled in a valley. In the foreground are a small number of dwellings and roads, and cut lumber. Caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a mining community, including numerous houses, mining structures, and large mounds of gravel material. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of boats laden with ore docked at the harbor. Caption reads: "The Harbor -- Looking Out, Lorain, Ohio." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an iron ore ship unloading. Several workers are on board the ship. Caption reads: "Unloading Iron Ore At Sparrows Point, MD." |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A crowd observes a sulphur well and natural gas at Toyah Basin, the location of the discovery of Permian gypsum deposits in 1854. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from road of lead and zinc mines and surrounding buildings. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the history of the State of Wisconsin, 1848-1948. Shows a map of Wisconsin with many historical and themed elements. Image was created by w... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | International Trucks advertisement. Cover reads: "If the job calls for a Truck... it calls for an International." A caption indicates that "the truck illus... |
| 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... |
| 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: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across field towards large mounds of raw material at National Zinc Separating Company plant. Industrial buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from the top of the shot tower looking down the narrow tunnel towards the bottom. |
| 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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