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Scott Hotel

Buildings, Transportation, Automotive, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns Scott Hotel, Hancock [Excellent photo of the old Scott Hotel in Hancock with a bus out front]

Scanned: October 4, 2007


Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller

Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons Joseph Weiss, photo, and William Langdon, both mine captains, were the first two men to ride a cage into the shaft. When they surfaced, the need for a canopy on the man car was apparent. The men were soaking wet and spattered with mud. [Image of Mr. Weiss looking very concerned.]

Scanned: March 5, 2009


QMC Hoist Houses and Hoisting Engines Structures at No. 2

Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, No. 2 hoist House just after completion. c. 1895

Scanned: September 18, 2008


Kiln

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Old Kiln at Quincy Mine for breaking rock from copper [Photo, taken from inside the old Quincy Kiln, that shows a shaft house in the background]

Scanned: October 8, 2007


Keweenaw Court House

Buildings, , Keweenaw Court House [The court house behind a brick fence next to another building]

Scanned: February 8, 2007


Copper Country Soldiers and Sailors in the World War

Armed Forces, Soldiers, History, Modern, 20th Century, World War, 1914, 1918, Buildings Parade on Sixth Street going north. [Some folks hang out of the 1898 Fire Station windows. Others grab a chair and observe the parade from the sidewalk. A church is squeezed between Gately's store and the fire station.]

Scanned: October 14, 2008


Throwing stones

Persons, , Anne Greve, Eagle River

Scanned: April 25, 2014


Businesses - Hermann Hardware

Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Stores, Retail, Persons, Almost a century of serving the hardware trade is represented by the principals in the recent change of ownership of the Hermann Hardware Store in Laurium. Martin Hermann, right, who with Mike Richetta, center, operated the business for 41 years, hands new owner Cliff Jurmu the scoop to the store's antique scale, which Hermann says must be a century old itself and is the only one like it in service in a hardware store in Michigan. Jurmu is going into business for himself after 15 years of store management experience. [The three men are shown near the scale. Cans of paint and other items are on the shelves.]

Scanned: February 20, 2009


Buildings - Log Cabins

Buildings, Dwellings, Seasons, Winter, [A boarded up log cabin in winter.]

Scanned: November 3, 2006


Street Car in Winter

Seasons, Winter, Transportation, Railroads, Street, Railroads, Houghton County Traction Company, winter scene car #48.

Scanned: August 31, 2012