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Zinc smelting established Iola, Kansas as an industrial town when manufacturers located to the area because of the abundance of natural gas needed to fuel the operations.
Date: Between 1896 and 1916
Item Number: 211091
Call Number: FK2.A1 I.3 Ma. *4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211091
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Industry
Built Environment - Function - Industry/Processing/Extraction - Manufacturing Facility
Built Environment - Function - Industry/Processing/Extraction - Processing Site
Built Environment - Materials - Metal - Zinc
Business and Industry - Manufacturing - Metals - Zinc
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Environment - Natural resources - Zinc
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Iola
Places - Counties - Allen
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Type of Material - Photographs
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