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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two workers, both in overalls and hardhats, use tools underground at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota. One man uses a drill wh... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | YMCA building, with Benham Hotel and mountains in thevbackground. Benham was an International Harvester "company town." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A young boy standing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A family of five posing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A welder wearing overalls holding a protective mask in front of his face while working at Hawkins Mine. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A man uses a hammer and chisel to work at Hawkins Mine, while another man stands behind him. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face. |
| Date: | 10 04 1928 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Hawkins Mine, with railroad tracks in the foreground. Buildings and a water tower are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Map showing the locations of IHC branch houses, works (factories), iron mines, coal lands, and timber lands. |
| 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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Drawing of two railroad cars being loaded with coal. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men use a DR-60 truck owned by J. Robert Bazley, Inc. to dump coal taken from Pennsylvania coal strippings into a chute leading to railroad cars. The m... |
| Date: | 11 18 1914 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Wilber William Warner, Madison miner and merchant. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | An International KB-8-F dump truck owned by the Empire-Star Mines Company, Limited, parked in front of several buildings with its bed raised to ore(?). A m... |
| 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: | 08 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 15 1938 |
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| Description: | A man standing with a dog near an International truck under a building owned by the Coshocton Black Coal Company. The company used PA-50 and 100K Morgan Ga... |
| Date: | 08 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Buildings owned by the Peacock Coal Company. A man is standing beside a small wooden structure on the side of a hill. There is a ramp angling up and away f... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man standing near an International U-7 power unit used to operate a drum hoist which pulls cars up a 500 foot slope from a mine. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View of a railroad track leading to the opening of a mine shaft. Logs or felled trees are lying on either side of the opening. |
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