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Michigan Tech Co-op Store

Persons, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Stores, Retail Women buying groceries. [An interior photo of the campus cooperative store during the 1950's. Four women and one man are shown either purchasing or selling goods at the store. Goods for sale include cigarettes, candy, batteries, kleenex, soap, fruit, sugar, tape, cookies, salami and pie tins.]

Scanned: September 26, 2005


Michigan College of Mines (Michigan Tech) Campus

Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Buildings, [Michigan College of Mines (Michigan Tech) Campus. An early photo of Hubbell Hall and the Mechanical Engineering building. A cast iron fence is in front of the building and a set of sprinklers is watering the grass.]

Scanned: October 17, 2005


Gundlach Construction Site and African-American Laborers

Persons, Immigrants, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Buildings, Dwellings 111 W. Douglass Street 1902 water storage shed in background discontinued in 1940s or 50s.[An exterior photo of two African-American laborers excavating a cellar in the snow. A man in a fur coat is standing in the foreground and a large shed is in the background. The laborers are using two wheel-barrows and shovels in their work. The photo is mounted on a cardboard matte.]

Scanned: October 24, 2005


Gundlach Construction Site and African-American Laborers

Persons, Immigrants, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Buildings, Dwellings 111 W. Douglass Street Excavation. 1902 H. Gundlach Sr Rock [An exterior photo of two African-American laborers excavating a cellar in the snow. A man in a suit is standing in the foreground and a small shed is in the background. The laborers are using two wheel-barrows and shovels in their work. The photo is mounted on a cardboard matte.]

Scanned: October 24, 2005


MR Dock - Hancock

Ships, , MR Dock - Hancock around 1900 [A photo of a freighter near a loading dock with several other ships in the background.]

Scanned: January 24, 2006


Campus Scene

Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Buildings, [A photo of the center of campus during the 1970's. The MEEM, Chem Eng, Library and Fisher Hall buildings are shown. A snow statue is also visible in front of the library.]

Scanned: January 26, 2006


Cities & Towns - Central

Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, [Central Location]

Scanned: November 20, 2006


Houghton, MI

Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Transportation, Automotive Sheldon Avenue, Houghton, MI in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. [Shows Sheldon Ave. business district including F. W. Woolworths, Central Super Market, Hamar Quandt and Surplus Outlet.]

Scanned: February 9, 2006


Houghton to Hancock

Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Buildings, Church Buildings, Water, Lakes Shows First Episcopal church which orginally was built in Hancock as the First Congregational Church and later removed. View taken about 1887 shows Third Congregational Church. [Photo hung in summer home of George C. and Margaret M. Edwards, lifelong members of Trinity Episcopal Church]

Scanned: February 9, 2006


Street Scene - Houghton

Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Buildings, Church Buildings, Water, Lakes Overview of Houghton & Hancock. Quincy Mine on top of hill. [Photo shows Houghton Fire Hall on Montezuma Ave. as well as a church, a crumbling building and Portage Lake]

Scanned: February 9, 2006