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Drillers at work with compressed air drill, salt mine, Kansas

  • After 1895

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View of two workers operating a compressed air drill in a Kansas salt mine. This photograph is one of a set of six stereographs detailing the mining and production of salt.

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  • 7 in. W x 3 in. H
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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“Drillers at Work with Compressed Air Drill, Salt Mine, Kansas.” Underwood & Underwood, n.d. Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/n296wz13w.

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