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Quincy Mining Company - Quincy Smelter on Portage Lake

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Historic Sites, Historic Mines, View from slag dump of (left to right) railroad warehouse (1901); briquetting plant (1906); cupola building (1898) and machine shop (1907).

Scanned: October 3, 2008


Calumet & Hecla - Building a New Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, View of safety timbers and planking in place, also uncovering of ledge. [Seventh in a series of 24 photos showing the steps in building a new mine shaft.]

Scanned: October 13, 2009


Photographs of the Calumet and Hecla Mines

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Manpower, Labor Tamarack #5 shaft. Boiler house interior. [Men are pictured shoveling coal.]

Scanned: November 9, 2009


Calumet and Hecla

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Loading 1400 tons of copper on a boat, Houghton, Mich. [Men load an amazing amount of copper onto a ship.]

Scanned: December 15, 2009


Strike Duty

Labor Movements, Peace Officers, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining Michigan National Guard Stike Duty at Calumet

Scanned: July 8, 2014


Tamarack No. 2 Shaft

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Seasons, Winter Tamarack No. 2 Shaft [Exterior view of mining operations at Tamarack in winter.]

Scanned: April 22, 2010


Quincy Mining Company - Underground Scenes: Conveyances For Hoisting Men, Rock and Water

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Underground view of two miners ready to blast. C. 1920

Scanned: September 25, 2008


Quincy Mining Company - Individual Houses, Housing Types

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Historic Sites, Historic Mines, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family Sears-Roebuck & Co. Furnished drawing, front and side elevations, 6-15-17, Sheet #1 of 3. Forty houses of this type were built in 1917: 9 at Mesnard, 19 at lower Pewabic, 3 at Pewabic, 2 at Limerick, 3 at Frenchtown, 3 at the Side Hill addition, 1 at Sing-Sing. QMC Single Houses.

Scanned: October 8, 2008


Copper Range Coal Dock

Harbors, Docks, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Copper Range Coal Dock - Steamer J. T. Hutchinson. Dock dismantled 1950. [View of dock and ship.]

Scanned: February 24, 2011


Photographs of the Calumet and Hecla Mines

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Manpower, Labor Tamarack #2 Shaft. Stope on 21st South. [Miners fill a car with ore.]

Scanned: November 6, 2009