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Photographs of the Calumet and Hecla Mines

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Calumet & Hecla #6 Hecla 63rd Level. Trammers loading car. [Underground photo of three miners shoveling ore into a car.]

Scanned: November 3, 2009


Photographs of the Calumet and Hecla Mines

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Manpower, Labor Tamarack #3 shaft. 18th Level. Slope hoist. [Underground scene of man operating hoist.]

Scanned: November 10, 2009


Photographs of the Calumet and Hecla Mines

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Manpower, Labor Tamarack #3 shaft. 20th Level. Timbering. [Underground scene of miners placing timbers.]

Scanned: November 9, 2009


Calumet & Hecla Mining Company

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Miners, Copper Miners, Accidents Tamarack #3 Shaft 20th Level. First Aid [Underground scene of two miners applying a dressing to a head wound of another miner.]

Scanned: October 10, 2006


Photographs of the Calumet and Hecla Mines

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Manpower, Labor Tamarack #3 shaft. 20th Level. Loading Car. [Underground scene of miners loading ore cars.]

Scanned: November 9, 2009


Photographs of the Calumet and Hecla Mines

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Manpower, Labor Tamarack #5 shaft. Lowering suspended timber into mine. [Miners watch as timber is lowered by chains into the mine shaft.]

Scanned: November 10, 2009


Photographs of the Calumet and Hecla Mines

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Manpower, Labor Tamarack #5 shaft. 35th Level Tramming Engine [Underground scene of miner operating engine.]

Scanned: November 9, 2009


Photographs of the Calumet and Hecla Mines

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Manpower, Labor Tamarack #5 shaft. 34th S. Lagging stope. [Underground scene of miners lagging logs which is a mining term used to describe material usually plank or split logs, placed on the outside of the main timber sets like a sheathing to keep rock fragments from entering.]

Scanned: November 10, 2009


Tamarack #5 Mancage

Miners, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Tamarack #5 Shaft Mancage at collar [An oversize print of miners in the mancage at the Tamarack #5 shaft. The mancage has two levels and the miners have carbide lamps on their helmets and are carrying lunch pails.]

Scanned: November 29, 2005


Calumet & Hecla Mining Company

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Buildings, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family Tamarack #182. General view looking E. from hospital. [Scene of mining operations with smoke billowing out of stacks. Some residential buildings are pictured with clothes hanging out to dry.]

Scanned: October 10, 2006