Miners pose for a photograph during their work at Mine 8 in Tower, on the Vermilion Iron Range. Photograph by George A. Newton, ca. 1885.

Miners and a car in the pit, Soudan Mine, 1890.

Miners at Troy Mine outside the town of Eveleth on the Mesabi Iron Range, c.1905.

Underground scene showing miners and the motors used in transporting ore, Chisholm. Photograph taken in 1915 by Minneapolis Times staff. Part of the Minneapolis Times newspaper photographs and clippings collection.