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Hawthorne School

Buildings, Education, Hawthorne School [Exterior view of the Hawthorne School in the Calumet area.]

Scanned: March 31, 2011


Buildings - Dwellings

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Human Settlements, Miners, Copper Miners North Kearsarge Mine [A row of company houses line a dirt road.]

Scanned: October 3, 2007


Eviction Petition 1913 Strike

Labor Movements, Miners, Copper Miners, [Letter from employees to James MacNaughton, General Manager of C&H stating their approval of their unwillingness to recognize the Western Federation of Miners and suggesting the company remove the strikers from company houses and give them to the men who are working.]

Scanned: September 30, 2010


John Lakner Employment Card, Calumet & Hecla Mining Company

Persons, Immigrants, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, [Employment record for John Lakner, an Austrian trammer employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company from 1899 through his death in 1905. According to the card, Lakner was killed November 13, 1905, in a blast on level 119 of the #5 shaft, due to "miscounting the reports of the firing of three block holes."]

Scanned: January 16, 2009


John Pirc Employment Card, Calumet & Hecla Mining Company

Persons, Immigrants, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, [Employment record for John Pirc, a Slovenian trammer employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company from 1906 through his death in 1908. Card indicates Pirc died April 29, 1908, after falling down the Osceola #14 shaft and fracturing his skull.]

Scanned: June 23, 2006


Identity Badge for Unknown Employee, Calumet & Hecla Mining Company

Persons, Immigrants, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, [Example of identity badge used by Calumet & Hecla Mining Company. Little is known about the badges, though some researchers have suggested that they may have been used as a security measure during World War I. They do not include any names, only a numbering system which may have referenced a now-lost log book.]

Scanned: June 23, 2006


Sanitary Bulletin

Persons, , Sanitary Bulletin indicating the outbreaks of infectious diseases including Pneumonia, Scarlet Fever, Measles, Whooping Cough, Typhoid Fever and Diptheria.

Scanned: October 11, 2010


C & H Mine Models

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , Photo of Mine Diagram/Model Minature for Ahmeek Mine "Rib Pillar" Stopes and "Pigeon-hole" Chutes.

Scanned: September 8, 2009


C & H Mine Models

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , Photo of Mine Diagram/Model Minature for Isle Royale Copper Company, Shrinkage Stope Method.

Scanned: September 8, 2009


C & H Mine Models

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , Photo of Mine Diagram/Model Minature for Calumet & Hecla Conglomerate, Timbered Stope.

Scanned: September 8, 2009