Mahoning Mine Hibbing 1902a, Minnesota – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Mahoning Mine Hibbing 1902a, Minnesota. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: The Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minn.
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Mahoning Mine Hibbing 1902a, Minnesota
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Hibbing, Minnesota, in 1902 was a young iron mining town on the Mesabi Range, about a decade after prospectors found rich ore in the area. The Mahoning Mine, one of the large open pits near the town, drew its workforce from immigrant families from Finland, Italy, Austria-Hungary and elsewhere in Europe. Ore from the range moved by rail to the lake docks at Duluth, where it was loaded onto ships bound for the steel mills of the Great Lakes region. Residents of the period would have known Hibbing first as a mining camp built around the pits, a place where shift whistles and ore trains set the daily rhythm. The town's later relocation, forced by the spreading mine beneath it, was still years away.
| Created / published | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Creator | crandall & fletcher |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Minnesota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 912 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minn. |
| Reference | MN Mahoning Mine Hibbing 1902a |
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