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Photographs of the Calumet and Hecla Mines

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Manpower, Labor Tamarack #2 Shaft. Stope on 21st South. [Miners fill a car with ore.]

Scanned: November 6, 2009


Soldiers - 1913

Persons, Armed Forces, Soldiers, [A soldier reads a newspaper next to a tree stump.]

Scanned: January 12, 2011


Spitzbergen Locations

Human Settlements, Harbors, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources Album Cover: "To the man who started it all John M Longyear from his former clerk care S. Sather 1921." Longyear Valley Longyear City. [A settlement at the bottom of a mountain slope near a harbor. A rail line runs down the mountain to the settlement].

Scanned: June 24, 2008


Stamp Mills

Manufacturing Process, Mills and Millwork, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Buildings Wolverine and Mohawk Stamp Mills [A line of carts carrying copper rich rock wait to move into a stamp mill where the rock will be crushed]

Scanned: September 27, 2007


Copper Mines - Kingston #1

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , Kingston #1 - Telephone located at all plats (levels). [Photo of the telphone box complete with a light bulb.]

Scanned: September 22, 2009


J. R. Dee's Houseboat

Transportation, Manners and Customs, Recreation, Outdoor Recreation, Buildings, Dwellings J. R. Dee's Houseboat. [Image of the houseboat at the dock. The boat shows a quarter board bearing the name of "Dreamer". Several row boats are lined up on the dock near a large tree. Quite the picture of decadence for 1908.]

Scanned: March 1, 2010


Winter retreat

Seasons, Winter, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Snow Banks and House

Scanned: May 14, 2014


Passing by

Ships, Passenger Ships, Inland Navigation, Canals, Water "Tionesta" passing our yard

Scanned: May 21, 2014


Roads

Buildings, Manpower, Labor, Transportation, Roads Spraying oil on road [A crew of men spray oil on a road in a residential area.]

Scanned: August 24, 2010


Seasons - Winter

Transportation, Roads, Seasons, Winter, Woody Plants, Trees This is the almost impenetrable road which leads one from M-26 into the Winona area. It is almost impossible to get to the King Philip Shaft via car once the area of the nearby Sleeping River is reached. [Image of snow-covered trees and snow banks.]

Scanned: December 6, 2006