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Calumet and Hecla

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Crushers, revolving screens and jigs which separate copper from sand. Calumet - Hecla Mills, Lake Linden, Mich. [Interior view showing several men working, one pushes a wheelbarrow.]

Scanned: December 14, 2009


Quincy Mining Company Building

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Transportation, Railroads, Buildings Ripley, MI Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mill, Wood Mill with approach trestle. [Image of a faded wooden building with a trestle.]

Scanned: April 14, 2015


Allouez and Cliff Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Allouez and Cliff Mine [A photo of the Allouez mine location showing a shaft-rockhouse and other industrial buildings. A row of dwellings is on the right side of the photo, and the Ahmeek 3 & 4 shaft-rockhouse is in the distance.]

Scanned: September 1, 2006


Quincy Mining Company - Technological Support Facilities at the Mine Location (Railroads, Machine Shops, Blacksmith Shops, Dry Houses, Compressor and Boiler Houses Plus General Views of the Mine.

Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Central Line shaft and roof trussing in 1900 machine shop.

Scanned: September 24, 2008


Plans - North Kearsarge #4 Dry Details

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Osceola Consolidated Mining Co. North Kearsarge #4 Dry Details

Scanned: August 26, 2009


Delaware Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Delaware Mine [Rockhouse for the Delaware mine]

Scanned: October 18, 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


Calumet & Hecla - Building a New Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Sinking shaft in solid rock. [Tenth in a series of 24 photos showing the steps in building a new mine shaft.]

Scanned: October 13, 2009