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Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A train bringing copper ore out of the mines, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Vance, a Trapper Boy, 15 years old. Has trapped for several years in a West Va. Coal mine. $.75 a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door: most of the time he sits here idle, waiting for the cars to come ... (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
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Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge, Bingham Copper Mine, Utah (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon, Utah. This is the Carr Fork side from which the company obtains huge amounts of ore. The Carr Fork bridge and main shops appear in the foreground (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Forbes, Colo. -- Comrade, after battle, rescuing body of slain miner (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Forbes, Colo. -- Slain miner & one of his fighting comrades (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Burning of miner's camp at Forbes during strike battle -- Colorado (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Close of Battle, Forbes, Colo. Removing dead: Correspondents under truce flag (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-10
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Capt. Philip Vancise, [Colo. Militia Commision,] Maj. E.J. Boughton, Capt. W.C. Danks (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Ruins Ludlow Colony -- Trinidad, Col. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-10
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Colo. Legislature hearing Gov. Ammon, May 4/14 (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1914
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Forbes, Colo. -- Correspondents under flag of truce (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Survivors of "DENVER" (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-05-25
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Capt. D.C. Smith of "EVELYN" (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-05-25
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