Martin Mine, Benton, 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Martin Mine, Benton, Wisconsin, 1915. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Martin Mine, Benton, Wis.
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Martin Mine, Benton, Wisconsin, 1915
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Benton, in Lafayette County in southwestern Wisconsin, sat in the old lead-mining country where prospectors had worked the hills since the 1820s and 1830s. By 1915 the district's output was increasingly zinc as well as lead, and the Martin Mine's surface works, with its shafts, ore-handling structures and waste piles, show a town whose livelihood still depended on the ground beneath it. Demand for base metals rose sharply after war broke out in Europe in 1914, which kept many local operations busy even as older diggings were worked out. Mining families in Benton would have known the place first as a camp of shafts, rail spurs and company housing, with wages, shift work and the risks of underground labor shaping daily life. The photograph records that industry at a moment of wartime demand, just before the region's mines began their long decline.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Creator | lighty photo co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Wisconsin |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,138 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Martin Mine, Benton, Wis. |
| Reference | WI 1915 Martin Mine, Benton |
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