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Milwaukee Road Depot, Montevideo, ca. 1900. From the H. Roger Grant Collection.
Milwaukee Road ticket envelope issued to Paul Clement on December 27, 1966.
Milwaukee road tickets and envelope, manufactured 1948.
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.
A mine in the Vermilion Iron Range operated by the Minnesota Iron Company, 1891. Photograph by Crandal & Fletcher Studio, Duluth.
Miners and a car in the pit, Soudan Mine, 1890.
Miners—many of them probably northern European immigrants—in the pit of the Soudan mine, Tower, 1890.
Miners at Troy Mine outside the town of Eveleth on the Mesabi Iron Range, c.1905.
Miners at work in an underground drift in Seller Mine, Hibbing. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood Studio, 1906.
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.