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Surface Digging

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Description: Lead mining by digging at the ground surface.
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Open Hearth Lead Furnace

Date: 1872
Description: Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men...
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Zinc Miners

Date: 1910
Description: Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Two men weighing milk cans on Toledo scales at the Pet Milk Company.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man weighing a milk can on an old scale at the Pet Milk Company.
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Dewey Estate

Date: 1949
Description: Office-reception room in the Nelson Dewey house.
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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
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Zinc Mining

Date: 1915
Description: Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin.
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People on Street

Date: 1906
Description: View down unpaved street with snow along the curbs. The Post office is the first building on the left. Other buildings are occupied by a doctor's office, s...
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Wisconsin State College

Date: 1957
Description: Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun...
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Six-Roll Husker-Shredder

Date: 12 29 1929
Description: Two men work on the Will Rasque farm using a horse-drawn wagon and a six-roll husker-shredder.
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Husker Shredder and Farmall Regular Tractor

Date: 12 29 1928
Description: Farmers use a 6-roll husker shredder and a Farmall Regular tractor outside a barn on the farm of Will Rasque.
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Potosi Brewery Workers

Date: 1920
Description: A group of Potosi Brewery employees inside the brewery.
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Brewery Tour

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Description: Tour of the Potosi Brewery.
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Gov. Nelson Dewey Estate — Stonefield

Date: 08 04 1949
Description: Master bedroom at the Governor Nelson Dewey house on his estate called Stonefield. On the right side are Cassville President R.J. Eckstein, and George W. F...
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Gov. Nelson Dewey Estate - Stonefield

Date: 08 04 1949
Description: Looking over Governor Nelson Dewey's account books at the governor's desk in his office at Stonefield are Raymond Sivesind, state supervisor of historic si...
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Haying Operations

Date: 07 1945
Description: View from front of two men wearing hats standing atop a wagon piled with hay that is being pulled across a partially cut hay field by two horses.
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Workmen with Horses Working on an Excavating Project

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Description: Photographic postcard of workmen and young boys posing with horses and hand tools. They are working on an excavating project near Boscobel.
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Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: Main Street, where two young girls walk on the sidewalk, and a horse and carriage and two cars are parked in the street. There is a townhouse complex on th...
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Post Office

Date: 1921
Description: A group of men stand outside of the post office. There is a parked car at the curb. A building is being demolished and there is a pile of rubble in the str...

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