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Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners, 1886

Gogebic Range Miners (1886)

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This photograph shows a group of laborers who worked for mine owner John E. Burton, standing in a camp in north woods at the time of the great iron boom of the mid-1880's.

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"Gogebic Range Miners (1886)." Unpublished photograph from the John E. Burton collection (Milwaukee SC 190) in the Wisconsin Historical Society visual materials collection.