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| 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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men use a DR-60 truck owned by J. Robert Bazley, Inc. to dump coal taken from Pennsylvania coal strippings into a chute leading to railroad cars. The m... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | An International KB-8-F dump truck owned by the Empire-Star Mines Company, Limited, parked in front of several buildings with its bed raised to ore(?). A m... |
| 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: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | People gathered around a horse-drawn buggy on the dividing line between the Ferris-Hagerty property and the Leighton-Wyoming mines. Harry Dankoler is to th... |
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| Description: | Miners at work using steam shovels and railroad cars for transporting iron ore in Virginia, located on the Mesabi Iron Range. |
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| Description: | Men work with the coke ovens at the coal mine. Caption reads: "Coke Manufacturing Scene, Near Bluefield, West Virginia." |
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| Description: | Group portrait of miners posing by #1 shaft just north of "G" Pabst. The man on the far left is Joe Iafolla. |
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| Description: | The blacksmiths of the mining company pose in their shop with the tools of their trade. The man on the right holding a sledgehammer is probably Dave Endriz... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of workers posing outside a mine, probably in Hurley, Wisconsin. Three young boys stand behind the group among stacks of logs. |
| 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: | 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. |
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