Coker Mine, no. 1, Livingston, Wisconsin, 1915 – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of Coker Mine, no. 1, Livingston, Wisconsin, 1915 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Coker Mine, no. 1, Livingston, Wis.
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Coker Mine, no. 1, Livingston, Wisconsin, 1915
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Livingston, a small village in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin, lay in a region that had been mining lead since the 1820s, when prospectors first worked the ground around Galena and Mineral Point. By 1915 zinc had become an important part of the district's output, and wartime demand in Europe pushed metal prices upward and kept shafts and mills busy. A mine such as the Coker operation depended on hoisting crews, ore haulers and mill hands, many of them descendants of Cornish, Irish and German miners who had settled the lead country a generation or two earlier. Mining towns in this part of Wisconsin rose and fell with the metal market, so residents in 1915 would have measured their prosperity by the price of ore and the length of the work week.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Creator | lighty photo co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Wisconsin |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,196 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Coker Mine, no. 1, Livingston, Wis. |
| Reference | WI 1915 Coker Mine, no. 1, Livingston |
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