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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad. Large logs, buildings and a railroad bridge are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View of an ore dock on Chequamegon Bay. Buildings on the shore of the bay can be seen, however, not the water. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Mammoth Ore Docks, Ashland, Wis." A building and roads are in the foreground. Several ore ships can be seen. |
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| Description: | Cornish miner's homes on a hill, with surrounding landscape. |
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| Description: | An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards the Kennedy zinc and lead mine (center) and the Hoskins mine (right). Snow is on the ground. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A painting of an archaic Indian mining for copper. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | "Ancient copper mining on Lake Superior." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating mining building seen from across a field. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking. |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Works of America, speaking at a hearing. |
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