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| 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: | 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: | 1952 |
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| Description: | This 1952 map of the northern parts of Bayfield and Douglas counties, Wisconsin, shows points established by E.T. Sweet in 1877, road points confirmed by S... |
| Date: | 12 16 1957 |
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| Description: | View across water, with cranes among piles of coal along the right, and among piles of other materials on the left. Smoke is in the distance on the right, ... |
| Date: | 12 17 1957 |
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| Description: | View of icy Lake Michigan from Ogden Street Bridge. There are piles of coal on the left and right, and what may be a jetty in the far distance. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | International VF-192 tandem dump truck with load of coal. Powered by V8-478 CID gas engine. Painted on the driver's side door: "Black Nugget Coal Mining Co... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Two views of Hurley. At the top is the Cary Mine. On the bottom is Silver Street lined with clubs and electric signs. Caption reads: "Greetings from Hurley... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A bulldozer removing trees is silhouetted against the sky. Subject: "TD-24 — Mines." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Corone... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-24 — Minesg." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Jo. F. Sherman, Hawthorne, Pa. Used with BE hoist and Isaacson g... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-24 — Mines." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Jos. F. Sherman, Hawthorne, Pa. Used with BE hoist and Isaacson g... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-18A — Mines." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Jos. F. Sherman, Hawthorne, Pa. Used with Isaacson blade in stri... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-24 — Mines." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "TD-24 Diesel crawler tractor and Bucyrus-Erie bulldozer stripping up to 25... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-24 — Mines." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by The Majestic Coal Co., St. Louis, Mo. Used with Bucyrus-Erie do... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "UD-9A — Mines." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Pikesville Coal. Co., Pikesville, Tenn. It powers a Street Bros. ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of man driving a TD-18A. Subject: "TD-18A — Mines." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Fitzsimmons & Connell Dredge & D... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | The chute is equipped with rail for the carts that haul the limestone at the Lime Kiln. |
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