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605 Caboose

Railroad Companies, Railroads, Cars, Copper Range Railroad caboose 605. [Image shows the red painted wood caboose. A man in a white hard hat is climbing the stairs onto the caboose.]

Scanned: June 2, 2015


Ships - Mahoning

Locomotion, Boats and Boating, Water, Lakes, Ships Mahoning - Pennsylvania Railroad [Image of the ship on the water.]

Scanned: April 12, 2007


Railroads

Railroads, Cars, Transportation, Railroads, Woody Plants, Trees [The red engine of the Copper Range railroad can be seen through the trees.]

Scanned: July 24, 2007


Sandstone Quarry

Manpower, Labor, Rock Excavation, Quarries and Quarrying, Lake Superior Kerber Jacobs Quarry [Workers at the quarry are pictured with a large block of sandstone.]

Scanned: June 11, 2009


Tamarack Mill

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manufacturing Process, Mills and Millwork, Manpower, Labor Tamarack Mill - Jigs [Interior view of workers, some of them appear to be children, working at the mill.]

Scanned: May 18, 2009


Quincy Mining Company No. 8 Surface Plant

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , [Photograph taken from north of shaft-rockhouse. Other industrial structures are visible. Note from original negative sleeve reads "Quincy #8 Surface Plant, March 5, 1908."]

Scanned: August 18, 2006


Lake Superior Iron Mines - Norrie Mine

Metal Trade, Iron Industry and Trade, Iron Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Norrie Mine - Scrammers at Work [Underground scene of miners with pick axes. Some of the timbers look as though they are about to collapse.]

Scanned: May 22, 2009


Tamarack #1 Hoisting Plant

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Buildings Tamarack #1 Hoisting Plant [A man operates the miniature which indicates the location of skips in the mine shaft.]

Scanned: May 13, 2009


Sports - Wrestling

Persons, Manners and Customs, Recreation, Sports, [Two contestants are shown wrestling in what may be the college gym.]

Scanned: November 18, 2010


Commercial Fishing - Lake Superior Fisheries

Industries, Buildings, The Northern Co-operatives, Inc. (Lake Superior Fisheries) in Hancock, Michigan. Drying fishing nets in front of the Wiita home in Big Traverse. [ This photo is number 8 in a series of 18 related to operations of the Lake Superior Fisheries.]

Scanned: April 22, 2009