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Cities and Towns - Houghton - Street Scenes

Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Stores, Retail, Persons, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns Downtown Houghton showing trolley wires during winter. [Shelden Avenue showing the trolley car tracks and cables. Horse and buggies and sleighs are pictured. Several people stand in store doorways. The I. E. Swift hardware store is to the left of the image where the present parking deck is now. The Douglass House is shown. On the right hand side of the photo is an office belonging to a Doctor Scott and a cigar store.]

Scanned: April 9, 2008


Cities and Towns - Hancock

Buildings, Seasons, Winter, Possibly Hancock - St. Joseph's Hospital in background. [Smoke pours from a chimney next to the large building that appears to be close to the frozen waterfront.]

Scanned: April 2, 2008


Phoenix Copper Company

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Buildings, Dwellings Phoenix Copper Co's. Stamp Mine on Ashbed. Photo in 1865 [A photo of a large stamp mill with an inclined shaft in the distance. A few dwellings are also in the photo. The photo is a poor quality reproduction of the original photo.]

Scanned: January 18, 2007


Norwegian Sunday School Classes

Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Societies, Church Societies, Norwegian Sunday School Classes Frenchtown Q. M. Co. about 1900 [An outdoor photo of a group of children and several adults. Everyone appears dressed for church. The original photo was torn or bent in the upper left-hand corner.]

Scanned: September 20, 2005


Buildings - Hospitals

Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Hospitals, Human Settlements, Sign and Signboards Dispensary Quincy Mining Company. "Almost from the start, Quincy and other Lake Superior mines provided their workers with medical services at modest charge." OLD RELIABLE p. 37 [View of the building from the dirt road showing the Dispensary sign.]

Scanned: February 11, 2008


Cities & Towns - Hancock

Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining Road in Houghton overlooking Quincy Mine [Image taken from a dirt road in Houghton showing the Quincy mining operations in Hancock.]

Scanned: April 9, 2008


Cities and Towns - Quincy

Human Settlements, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Row of Quincy workers houses built in 1917 in "Lower Pewabic" [Image of a row of identical homes. A fence runs along the length of the dirt road in front of the buildings. One of the porches is covered in growing vines. An American flag is in front of one of the homes.]

Scanned: September 3, 2008


Cities & Towns - Houghton

Transportation, Bridges, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Buildings View of Houghton from Quincy [Photo of the early settlement of Houghton. St. Ignatius Church and the Amphidrome are distinguishable.]

Scanned: April 15, 2008


Cities and Towns - Hancock

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Transportation, Roads, Road in Houghton overlooking Quincy Mine [The Quincy Mine structures protrude over the horizon in this photo taken from a dirt road in Houghton.]

Scanned: April 3, 2008


Buildings - Houses - Quincy

Buildings, Dwellings, Human Settlements, No. 8 Boarding House near Franklin School (additonal print HAER MI-2-251) [Exterior view of the building with an attached wing.]

Scanned: February 28, 2008