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Aerial Views of MTU Campus

Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Buildings, Water, Lakes Airplane view of Michigan Tech (MCM at that time) taken in 1923. [View of campus and Portage Lake area.]

Scanned: July 31, 2007


Spitzbergen Locations

Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Persons Underground flashlights in mine of Arctic Coal Co. at Spitzbergen, 700 miles from the North Pole. [A miner looks over a spool of cables and looks at the camera.]

Scanned: July 31, 2007


Lumbering

Woody Plants, Trees, Forest Products Industry, Lumbering, Seasons, Winter [Three men sit on piles of snow while one man stands. Stacks of cut logs can be seen in the background.]

Scanned: August 9, 2007


Lumbering

Woody Plants, Trees, Forest Products Industry, Lumbering, Persons Two men standing on cut logs. [Two men wearing vests, stand on a pile of neatly stacked logs.]

Scanned: August 9, 2007


Cities and Towns - Mohawk

Buildings, Church Buildings, Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Bank Buildings, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns Bank, Mohawk, Michigan [A dirt road runs through the town. Two church buildings are to the right of the photo and a building on the left shows several people loitering on the stairs.]

Scanned: September 25, 2007


Aeronautics

Transportation, Air Travel, Water, Lakes, Ships Ripley in backround [An early model of a sea plane makes a landing on Portage Lake.]

Scanned: December 10, 2007


Agriculture

Agriculture, Persons, Buildings, Farm Buildings Isaac Luoma's farm the day Sima Luoma Tamasa was born. [View from a distance of the farm house and related structures. Several people gather on the porch.]

Scanned: December 10, 2007


Agriculture

Agriculture, Persons, John Heinonen on hay rake. Signe H., Mayme Wuoreno, Jennie H. (Lukkori) (Kaspala) [Image of a man driving a piece of farm machinery pulled by a horse Three girls dressed in knickers and a dog are also pictured.]

Scanned: December 10, 2007


Automobiles

Transportation, Automotive, Seasons, Winter, Persons Pierce Arrow auto. [William P. Olson and an unknown person drive the vehicle on a snow covered road.]

Scanned: December 12, 2007


Automobiles

Transportation, Automotive, Persons, Exposition of Progress at the Colosseum, Calumet, Michigan 1930 - Sponsored by Harvey Bottling Company, Laurium. [A collection of examples of transportation over the years. A banner states " Osceola Store, Al Paulson, Prop."]

Scanned: December 12, 2007