Mahoning Mine Hibbing, Minnesota, 1902 – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Mahoning Mine Hibbing, Minnesota, 1902, preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: The Mahoning Iron Mine, Hibbing, Minn.
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Mahoning Mine Hibbing, Minnesota, 1902
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Hibbing, Minnesota, sat on the Mesabi Range in 1902, where open-pit iron mining had turned a young settlement into a company town within about a decade. The Mahoning pit was one of the ore workings that fed the range's growing output, and its ore moved by rail toward Lake Superior ports, mainly Duluth, where it was loaded onto ships bound for the steel mills of the Great Lakes region. Men from Finland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Scandinavia made up much of the workforce, and their families crowded into rough housing near the pits. Life revolved around shift whistles, company stores, and the weather that governed when the ore could be dug and shipped. Few residents in 1902 could have imagined that the town would later have to be moved to make way for the expanding mines.
| Created / published | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Creator | crandall & fletcher |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Minnesota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,240 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The Mahoning Iron Mine, Hibbing, Minn. |
| Reference | MN Mahoning Mine Hibbing 1902 |
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