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Religious Orders & Sects

Christian Communities, Buildings, Church Buildings, Persons Sacred Heart Communion Class [Communion class gathered outside of church. Three children are shown leaning out of upper windows of church]

Scanned: March 23, 2006


Vertin Brothers, Calumet

Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Stores, Retail, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Persons Old Vertin Bros. Store. [A photo of the front of the Vertin Brothers Store. A number of employees are standing in front of the store and the store windows contain displays of womens and mens clothing. A display of shoes is also in front of the store. The street appears to be paved with crushed poor rock from the mine.]

Scanned: September 9, 2005


Pump Michigan

Engines, Pumping Machinery, Industries, Pump Michigan 65 million gallons 24 hours [Good photo of this impressive piece of machinery]

Scanned: March 23, 2006


Tail House- Red Jacket Shaft

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Tail House- Red Jacket Shaft [An interior photo of the tail house at the Red Jacket Shaft in Calumet. The negative is imprinted with the words "Calumet and Hecla, Photo by Isler, Tail House Red Jacket Shaft 102".]

Scanned: October 7, 2005


Buildings - Houses - Laurium

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Campbell residence, Laurium (325 Pewabic Street, built in 1913 according to Home Tour Association) [Rather distorted image of this brick residence]

Scanned: March 23, 2006


Cities & Towns Calumet Street Scenes

Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Stores, Retail, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress Looking N. from Elm, W.S. 5th Street - Calumet [Photo shows people lining both sides of the brick street. Several businesses are clearly shown]

Scanned: March 23, 2006


Cities & Towns Calumet Street Scenes

Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Stores, Retail, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Fifth Street Calumet [Fifth Street in winter. Several horse sleighs going down street, retail businesses line both sides of street]

Scanned: March 23, 2006


Copper Mines & Mining - Calumet & Hecla

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Human Settlements, Persons Calumet and Hecla Mining Co. - mining location unidentified mine site showing shaft houses similar to those used at Quincy and log houses for workers c. 1880. Additional print HAER MI-2-10, (Millionaire's Street, Calumet - identified by Rev. Langseth.) [Good photo in tiers showing a few men on the railroad tracks, a row of homes of the cabin type and mining operations on the third level.]

Scanned: July 16, 2008


Cities & Towns - Houghton

Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Water, Lakes East Houghton from Mining School. View from Hubbell Hall Tower 1895? [Includes view of Portage Canal]

Scanned: March 24, 2006


Biography - Isler

Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Lena and Harry Isler [Interior view of the Isler's music room. Nice example of Victorian decor}

Scanned: March 24, 2006