Coker Mine, no. 2, Livingston, Wisconsin, 1915 – Historic Photograph 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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Coker Mine, no. 2, Livingston, Wisconsin, 1915 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Coker Mine, no. 2, Livingston, Wis.
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Coker Mine, no. 2, Livingston, Wisconsin, 1915
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Livingston, a small mining village in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin, sat in the lead and zinc country that had been worked since the 1820s. In 1915, the First World War had driven up demand for zinc and lead, and mines like the Coker No. 2 shaft drew crews to hoist and process ore at a time when the local trade was unusually busy. The district's miners, many of them descended from Cornish and other immigrant families, worked in a landscape of shafts, dumps, and mill buildings, and the surrounding farms and small towns depended on the mining payroll. Like many mining communities of that era, Livingston's fortunes rose and fell with metal prices, and its residents would have measured the year by the ore market and the shift whistle.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Creator | lighty photo co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Wisconsin |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,499 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Coker Mine, no. 2, Livingston, Wis. |
| Reference | WI 1915a Coker Mine, no. 2, Livingston |
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