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1. Mountain Iron Mine, Mountain Iron, Minnesota

Date Created:
1902
Description:
Marion Model K steam shovel with a two and a half cubic yard dipper working along side a 25 ton wooden ore car for the Oliver Iron Mining Company in the open pit Mountain Iron mine.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1903
Description:
Mahoning mine on the Mesabi Iron Range at Hibbing was one of the most prolific on the Range shipping iron ore from 1895 to1973.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Adams Mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1902
Description:
Colorized view of the Adams mine site with worker housing.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1894
Description:
The Mahoning open pit iron ore mine on the Mesabi Range in Hibbing is worked with a pair of steam shovels.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Shenango Mine, Chisholm, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Aerial view of Shenango open pit iron ore mine with roads, equipment, and buildings.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Chandler Mine No. 3, Ely, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1891
Description:
The headframe at the Chandler underground mine Number 3 in Ely stands behind the growing ore stock piles.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. Ore Dock Railroad Tracks, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1902?
Description:
Three ore docks with the 1896 Rockefeller steamer Sir William Siemens ready to load at one.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Oliver Iron Mining Company staff, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1904
Description:
Gathering of the officers, superintendents, captains, foremen, engineers, and engineer's helpers of the Hibbing Chisholm district offices of the Oliver Iron Mining Company on the occasion of the promotion of Pentecost Mitchell from general superintendent to president.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

9. Minnesota Iron Company, Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1891
Description:
The Minnesota Iron Company, incorporated in 1890, was engaged in underground iron ore mining on the Vermilion Range that ran between Tower and Soudan on the west and Ely and Winton on the east of the range.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Spruce Mine, Eveleth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Aerial view of Spruce open pit iron ore mine with roads, equipment, and buildings.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

11. United States Steel mill, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1956?
Description:
Aerial view of the Duluth steel plant complex.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Locomotive in mine pit, Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Crandall, Robert S.; Fletcher, George W.
Date Created:
1891?
Description:
An unidentified underground mine pit with a steam locomotive Number 1 of the Duluth and Iron Range railway at work, probably at Tower or Ely, Minnesota, on the Vermilion Iron Range.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Oliver Iron Mining Company Men, Hibbing, Minnesota

Creator:
Gallagher, Louis Perry, Sr., 1875-1945
Date Created:
1926
Description:
Principals of the Oliver Iron Mining Company are frequently photographed at meetings and other gatherings.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Oliver Iron Mining Company electric shovel, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945?
Description:
A Bucyrus Erie 170-B electric shovel stripping ore in an open pit mine on the Mesabi Iron Range.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Hull-Rust Mine, Hibbing, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940?
Description:
The Hull-Rust-Mahoning mine established in 1892 in Hibbing is one of the largest open pit iron ore mines in the world, with a 1.5 by 3.5 mile footprint and depths up to 600 feet. It supplied as much as a fourth of all the ore mined in the U. S. during its peak production during WWI and WWII.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Trout Lake Beneficiation plant, Coleraine, Minnesota

Date Created:
1918?
Description:
Trout Lake beneficiation (or benefication) plant near Coleraine was completed in 1909-1910, to raise the iron content of lean, sandy ores. Beneficiation (or benefication) is one of a variety of process that treats the raw iron ore to separate the ore into the usable mineral and the part of the ore that is unusable (gangue).
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Dump at Chandler Mine, Ely, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; dump at Chandler mine Ely; miners; equipment
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Underground mine on Vermilion Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; miners; equipment
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Chandler Mine, Ely, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; headframe; miners and equipment; part of Chandler mine at Ely Minnesota
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Underground mining on Vermilion Iron Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; equipment
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Vermilion Range, Mine Number 8, Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; miners and equipment; Minnesota Mine No 8
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Underground mine on Vermilion Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; miners and equipment
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Underground mine on Vermilion Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermillion iron range underground mining; miners; drills; equipment
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Underground mine on Vermilion Range, Ely or Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; miners; equipment; the home of Bessemer ore near Tower Minnesota
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Stone Mine, Tower, Minnesota

Creator:
Newton, George A.
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
Vermilion iron range underground mining; miners and equipment; Stone Mine Mountain Iron Company at Tower
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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