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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A view from a bluff on Tower HIll overlooking the Wisconsin River. A sign on the right reads: "Shot Shaft". |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View from the bluff at Tower Hill State Park of the Wisconsin River. A sign on the right reads: "Tower Hill State Park Shot Shaft". |
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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: | 1953 |
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| Description: | The chute is equipped with rail for the carts that haul the limestone at the Lime Kiln. |
| Date: | 11 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A hematite fan, approximately six inches in length, from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. This speci... |
| Date: | 11 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A specimen of emerald in matrix from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the tailings pile, on the left, and on the right, the shaft house of an abandoned mine. The shaft house has been sided with corrugated metal pane... |
| Date: | 11 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A hematite fan, approximately six inches in length, from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. This speci... |
| Date: | 11 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A cut and polished azurite malachite nodule from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. Azurite and malach... |
| Date: | 11 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A dogtooth calcite specimen from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. The specimen is approximately thre... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of dock site towards Lake Superior, showing sulphur pile and a large chute in the background. |
| Date: | 01 13 1919 |
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| Description: | Office and company store. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel Company. Wisconsin Steel wa... |
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| Description: | An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used... |
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| Description: | A man stands outside the rock crusher at the Wisconsin Granite Company quarry. To the right, railroad tracks span the side of the building. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a woman standing outside a structure made from slabs of rock and wooden support beams. Caption reads: "Lime kilns. 'Old La Fever' 3 miles S.... |
| 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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