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Cable used to raise forge door.
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Dick Sayer (l) and Charlie Francis at Maloit Park during a New Jersey Zinc company picnic.
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Lynn Kanakis (?) takes batting practice at Maloit Park. Many of the NJZ employees enjoyed playing baseball and formed teams that competed with neighboring towns.
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Charlie Francis (right center), Bill Jude (left center), and others at a NJZ picnic at Maloit Park.
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Charlie Francis (center), sent from the New York office during union negiotiations, at Maloit Park.
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Group at the shelter in Maloit Park. Standing on the left is Rosie Marfitano holding her son. Seated on the left is Madeline Steinmeyer, then Virginia Caddy Bowman, Pearl (Dump) Mize, Pearl Murley (looking left and standing) and Blanch Sundburg standing far right and looking to the left. Ladies standing with their backs to the camera are unidentified.
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Ed Miller checking the food. Bill Jude to Ed's left. George Gillian (center), Ed Chockie (baseball cap) and Ed Duffy, enjoying the afternoon.
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Ed Chockie (with baseball hat), Bill Jude (holding cup), Ed Miller (right), and Frank Sherwood with his back to the camera, at Maloit Park.....others are unidentified.
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Ronnie Jenkins (hands in pockets) stands behind a chopping Eddie Duffy, while Tony Karwacki holds a log in place. Others are unidentified. The wood pile is at the fireplace in the background.
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Pearl Maloit and her son-in-law, Jack Nelson, at a New Jersey Zinc Company picnic at Maloit Park.
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Frank and Pearl Maloit at a New Jersey Zinc Company picnic.
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Inside the mill at the Gilman Mine. Chemicals are stored in pallets in the left forefront and a battery operated fork lift is parked in the center background. The soda ash mixing machine area is at the top of the platform. Soda ash (also called washing soda, sodium carbonate Na2CO3) was one of the chemicals used to clean the ore. The large pipe on the left is for ventilation of the soda ash work area.
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Staging area in the mill at Gilman for the chemicals used to process the mined ore. The fork lift was used to lift pallets of the chemicals for use in the mixing machines. [Similar to 2007.008.072]
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Part of the soda ash mixing machine at the Gilman Mine. Soda ash was used in processing the ore along with copper sulfate. An electric motor to power the mixer sets atop the mixing bucket.
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A mine conveyor used for transporting the zinc ore from level to level and to the crusher in the mine. Conveyors were used extensively in the mine. [related to photo 2007.008.067]
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Crane lifting transformers into place at Gilman.
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Crane at Gilman power plant moving transformers. The building in the left background housed the post office, mercantile, and grocery store.
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Transformers being lifted into place by a Weicker crane at Gilman. The main power line came over Turkey Creek (near Red Cliff) to Gilman.
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Weicker crane being "blocked" during transformer unloading operations at the Gilman power plant. Smiling onlookers at right.
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Electrical transformers, prior to unloading at Gilman, on a Weicker transfer and storage truck.