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Labor Day, rock drilling contest

Colorado Digitization Project
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1935?
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Miners
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The image shows two competitors after a Labor Day mining contest. Rock drilling competitions, where miners displayed their skills in hand-drilling holes in large blocks of rock, were a form of entertainment and rivalry in the mining towns. This image may be in Leadville, Colorado.
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