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| Date: | 01 06 1919 |
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| Description: | Residential neighborhood. Caption reads: "Building Site East". Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed in t... |
| 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: | 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Empire zinc and lead mine. Very litle lead is now produced. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | YMCA building, with Benham Hotel and mountains in thevbackground. Benham was an International Harvester "company town." |
| Date: | 02 11 1925 |
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| Description: | View of the large abandoned furnace complex, left, company store, far right, and blacksmith shop behind the company store, on the site of the Jackson Iron ... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Workers' houses stand in front of the Fayette Tourists Lodge. After the Jackson Iron Company left in 1891, Fayette became a tourist destination and is now ... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man looks across Snail Shell Harbor at the remains of the Jackson Iron Company works. The large furnace complex is visible through the tree... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the abandoned Jackson Iron Company furnace complex at Fayette, on the shore of Snail Shell Harbor. Lake Michigan is in the background. |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Dolomite cliffs along Snail Shell Harbor are seen in the background between the ruined buildings of the company store, left, and the machine shop on the gr... |
| 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. |
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