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| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Worker moving rock at the Sahara Mine with an International T-40 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) equipped with a Bucyrus-Erie bullgrader. |
| Date: | 11 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a posed group of orphan children of miners from mine disaster, Nov. 13, 1909. Caption reads: "#31 Group made orphans by Cherry Min... |
| Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of people gathering around an air shaft of a mine in after a mining disaster. Caption reads: "(?) at Mine Disaster showing wrecked ai... |
| Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i... |
| Date: | 1993 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of trucks and conveyor belts working in the background of a limestone quarry. Grass and plants with small blossoms are in the foreground at t... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-24 — Mines." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by The Majestic Coal Co., St. Louis, Mo. Used with Bucyrus-Erie do... |
| 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... |
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