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M & C Bituminous Mine

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"Man and Beast tolling in Perpetual Night - hauling coal to the shaft, M. & C. Bituminous Mines, Decatur, IL. 1904

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Photo of Pete Borgogne, laying in hospital bed.

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Photograph of Pete Borgogne; 872 S. Franklin St., was shot in the arm from behind as he was driven off, with other miners, before deputized National Guardsmen. On Nov. 4, 1932, when Sheriff E. C. Wilson set out to break up the picket line at the…

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