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| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Shullsburg. There is a numbered key on the left that reads, at top: "Explanation. Nos. Denote present Site." Streets are named on the map and ma... |
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| Description: | Two men are standing in front of the entrance to a mine. Vertical beams are just inside the entrance. The man on the left has a cloth sack draped over his ... |
| 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: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin as found in American Farmer, vol. 9. |
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| Description: | 1881 version of the Coat of Arms of the State of Wisconsin. |
| 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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| Description: | Group portrait of smiling miners, who are all young boys. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of three boys sitting on a donkey. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Map of states in the United States, as well as inset maps of Russia, France, Germany and Sweden. At bottom right is a key for the map that includes: a numb... |
| Date: | 12 1976 |
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| Description: | A workman is welding new cleats on a "Cat" (Caterpillar excavator) at an iron mine. Smoke obscures the cab. |
| Date: | 02 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis." A factory and headquarters with railroad tracks on the left. From Wikipedia "Bucyrus-Erie was... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ore Docks, Superior, Wis." Elevated view of an ore carrying ship that is within the ore docks on Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | A map showing allotments of American Indian tribes in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. On the left side is a listing of Lead & Zinc Mines. |
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| Description: | View of a large piece of equipment. Caption reads: "Cornish Pumping Engine at Chapin Mine, 54 feet high." The Chapin Mine Cornish Pumping Engine was bu... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Hurley, WI and nearby industrial sites (Scott & Howe Lumber Co. Mill, Ashland Mine). Inventory reads: "Looking west and a little south ove... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the border between Hurley, WI and Ironwood, MI. Caption reads: "Looking east from Hurley side of Montreal River near Silver Stree... |
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