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Hancock Mine

Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Hancock Mine [Exterior view of some of the buildings.]

Scanned: July 30, 2010


Copper Mines - Cliff Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Cliff Mine [Smoke still spews out of a smokestack at the Cliff. A building in ruins is also pictured.]

Scanned: September 21, 2009


Copper Falls Mill- Road Work on Calumet Ave.- View from Osceola No.3

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Copper Falls Mill- Road Work on Calumet Ave.- View from Osceola No.3 [A photo of a row of shaft-rockhouses. A poor rock pile is in the foreground and a number of chimneys are visible in the distance.]

Scanned: September 1, 2006


Quincy Smelter

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns This photo of the Quincy Smelter near the Houghton-Hancock drawbridge has received many far-flung compliments. Seen are some of the homes of Ripley, the residential nooks of the hillsides and the top, the Quincy plateau. Portage Lake reflects frigidity and snow while the water is still not ice surfaced, except for the shoreline areas at the bottom of the photo. [Tranquil image of the smelting works and Mont Ripley]

Scanned: January 17, 2007


Calumet & Hecla Rock House

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Persons First Hecla Rock House. [Exterior view of the rock house. A man dressed in a suit leans against one of the ore cars.]

Scanned: September 17, 2009


Quincy Mine Location - Structures at No. 6

Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor View looking south of No. 6 shaft rockhouse while under construction, showing scaffolding and laborers. 1892.

Scanned: September 12, 2008


Quincy Hill

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Buildings Snow on Quincy Hill [Photo taken from Houghton across the frozen lake with Quincy smelter and mine shafts.]

Scanned: October 16, 2007


C&H Rock House

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress C&H Rock House [Photo of miners posed outside of the Calumet and Hecla Rock House]

Scanned: October 16, 2007


Delaware Mine Shaft

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Old Delaware Mine Shaft [Color photo of a Mine Shaft House on a hill]

Scanned: October 18, 2007


Quincy Smelting Works

Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Water Quincy Smelting Works and Mining. [Image from across the Portage showing a barren Quincy Hill and Ripley.]

Scanned: February 18, 2010