Date: | 10 02 1961 |
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Description: | View of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company plant. The sky is cloudy and smoke obscures some of the stacks. Railroad cars can be are on the righ... |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | Two men in oxygen helmets outside of the Cherry, Illinois, mining disaster. |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | The ruins of the fan house and escape shaft after a mining disaster at Cherry mine. A group of men and children are standing in the foreground. |
Date: | 11 18 1909 |
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Description: | Miners building a temporary hoisting apparatus after the November 13, 1909, disaster at Cherry mine in Illinois where 400 men were entombed. |
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: | 1950 |
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Description: | A view from a bluff on Tower HIll overlooking the Wisconsin River. A sign on the right reads: "Shot Shaft". |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | View across river towards the tunnel leading to the bottom of the shot tower shaft at Tower Hill State Park. There is a rustic bridge on the right leading ... |
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: | 1945 |
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Description: | Tower Hill State Park trail to the top of the shot tower shaft. |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Center panel of the completed mural at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The image depicts wheat farming, one of the state's earliest and largest industrie... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Elevated view of mining operations. Caption reads: "'A Busy Corner' of Platteville." |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | The Empire zinc and lead mine. Very litle lead is now produced. |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Two workers in coveralls and hardhats underground at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine near Hibbing, Minnesota. |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Worker in an elevator at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine near Hibbing, Minnesota. |
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