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Zinc Mining

Date: 1915
Description: Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin.
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Surface Digging

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Description: Lead mining by digging at the ground surface.
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Platteville Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: The brick building at 340 South Chestnut Street, was built around 1930. It resembled the house-with-canopy-type station commonly constructed throughout the...
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Down in the Zinc Mine

Date: 1910
Description: Miner inside a zinc mine.
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New Bridge Across the Wisconsin River

Date: 10 1927
Description: View along shoreline of construction of the New Free bridge. Men work on and below the wooden bridge, which is partially constructed. A crane is on the bri...
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Blockhouse Mine

Date: 1940
Description: Blockhouse lead mine with cows grazing.
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South Lancaster Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: This store, which was originally built in 1840 (and rebuilt after an 1877 fire) was bought in 1891, by Samuel Kerr who continued to sell sugar, flour, mola...
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Interior of Lead Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Five miners inside a lead mine.
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Pit at Lead Mine

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Description: Pit at Hazel Green lead mine.
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Brewery Tour

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Description: Tour of the Potosi Brewery.
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Miners at Diner

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Description: Zinc miners at tables in the dining hall near.
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Mine Shaft

Date: 1929
Description: Elevated view of a shaft house at a zinc mine.
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Ortscheid Stone Quarry

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Description: The stone quarry. There is a meadow in front of it.
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Lead Mine Interior

Date: 1930
Description: View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track.
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Prospecting for Lead

Date: 06 1949
Description: Gophering, or prospecting for lead using a windlass at Maplewood Farm.
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Bird's-Eye View of Railroad Yards

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of the Fennimore, primarily the train depot. There is a windmill near railroad cars, and dwellings are in the distance.
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Uppena Home in British Hollow

Date: 
Description: Uppena home, built by Bernard Henry Uppena in 1850.
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Church in Cassville

Date: 1930
Description: Winter scene overlooking town, showing Baptist church in background.
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Down in the Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Miners in the bowels of a lead mine.
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Zinc Miners

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

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