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| 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. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A miner fastening a chain to a mining car in order to be pulled from the shaft by a drum hoist. The drum hoist was powered by an International U-7 power un... |
| Date: | 01 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing next to mining cars near the opening of the Beam & Merritt mine as an International PA-50 power unit is installed. |
| Date: | 01 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Men and ponies standing near a building and carts on railroad tracks at the Story & McDade coal mine. The mine operation was powered by an International PA... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Metal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Coal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience ... |
| Date: | 10 19 1925 |
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| Description: | A workman smokes a cigarette in the foreground as a steam shovel loads iron ore at the Cahoon Mine. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A mastodon skull unearthed at Quartz Creek at a depth of 42 feet. Photograph taken at Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. Text on photograph reads: "Copyrigh... |
| Date: | 09 10 1910 |
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| Description: | Men work on a partially finished cabin in the woods. Snow-covered tree trunks litter the clearing around the cabin. The cabin is being built in conjunction... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | In the foreground on a hill two men stand with horse-drawn cart. In the far distance is Grand Encampment, Wyoming. The cart is headed to the Leighton-Wyomi... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers in the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. The mining operation stretches up onto a steep hill littered with fallen trees. A two-story cabin is on the le... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men standing with horses in front of the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A steep hill rises behind them. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. Piles of logs and boards are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men carrying dead lambs back to the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men preparing to butcher sheep at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A cabin is visible behind them on a hill. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men sitting around a table in a cabin at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A box of cigars and a phonograph record player are sitting on the table. D.S. Cr... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Harry Dankoler, with an unidentified man, standing in front of horses and a wagon associated with the Leighton-Wyoming mining operation. Two other men sit ... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men standing in front of a pile of timber or possibly a broken down log cabin associated with the Leighton-Wyoming mining operation. |
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