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Railroads - Companies

Railroad Companies, Railroads, Cars, Persons Hancock & Calumet RR on bridge. [Men stand next to the railroad cars while it is stopped on the iron trestle.]

Scanned: November 1, 2006


Railroads - Companies

Railroad Companies, Seasons, Winter, Persons Mineral Range R. R. Show Donne Red Jacket [ Picture of the railroad engine with a snow plow attached. Men and children stand next to it as well as a woman wearing an apron. The train is almost hidden by the enormous snow banks.]

Scanned: November 1, 2006


Hancock & Calumet Railroad #34

Railroad Companies, Seasons, Winter, Railroads - Companies - Hancock & Calumet Railroad [View of engine and cars on a trestle in winter.]

Scanned: May 11, 2006


Labor - Miners

Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining Miners [A group of miners pose on a pile of rocks for a photo. Some of them carry their lunch pails and have candles on their hats.]

Scanned: July 24, 2009


Miners

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Miners [A group of miners posed in front of a shaft-rockhouse - probably Calumet and Hecla or Osceola.]

Scanned: May 12, 2006


Ahmeek Central Crushing plant between #1 & #2 shafts

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , Ahmeek Central Crushing plant between #1 & #2 shafts [A photo of a rockhouse and an external steel rock bin. An elevated trestle is connected to the rockhouse. A tall smokestack is billowing smoke in the background.]

Scanned: May 12, 2006


Smelters

Smelting, Buildings, Manpower, Labor C & H Works - Lake Linden. According to Waldo Backman of Dollar Bay this is the Lake Superior Smelting Co. in Dollar Bay, which C & H bought. [Impressive photo of smelter buildings, the workers and an enormous amount of copper ingots ready for shipment.]

Scanned: July 24, 2009


Mills - Baltic Mill

Manufacturing Process, Mills and Millwork, Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining Baltic Mill [Interior view of the mill and machinery.]

Scanned: July 23, 2009


Tamarack Mine & Miners

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Tamarack Mine & Miners [A group of miners posed in front of the Tamarack No. 5 hoist house. The shaft-rockhouse is visible in the background. The original negative is overexposed.]

Scanned: May 17, 2006


Buildings - Libraries

Buildings, Public Buildings, Library Buildings, Woody Plants, Trees, Painesdale Library [Through the trees image of what may be the back of the building.]

Scanned: February 29, 2008