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Biography - Frank B. Nancarrow

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor Frank Nancarrow at Quincy Hoist [Mr. Nancarrow sits on a chair and keeps track of the cars in various levels of the mine.]

Scanned: December 20, 2007


Copper Mines & Mining - Copper Range Mining Company

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Buildings "Dry" (washing troughs).

Scanned: December 4, 2008


Copper Mines and Mining - Underground Scenes

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor Either Winona Copper Co., King Philip Copper Co. or Challenge Mine. [Four miners are pictured with shovels and a tram car. Good view of the construction of the drift.]

Scanned: June 17, 2008


Copper Mines and Mining - Underground Scenes

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor [A miner holding a candle crawls out of a small hole. The photo shows several broken and split timbers surrounding the hole..]

Scanned: June 17, 2008


Copper Mines - MTU Student Field Trip

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher Group of students underground: Longyear, Lanigan, McDonald, Swent

Scanned: June 4, 2009


MTU Students - Field Trip

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings Baltic Pit, Polatka, MI

Scanned: June 5, 2009


MTU Students - Field Trip

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher Prof. Spear, Bershire Mine, Polatka, MI [Underground scene of the professor and some students wearing mining gear.]

Scanned: June 4, 2009


Copper Mines - Underground Scene

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Miners Underground. [Two miners appear to be conducting a surveying project.]

Scanned: June 5, 2009


Biography - Samuel B. Harris

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Samuel B. Harris from "Man of Progress of Michigan" F565.M55 pg. 253. [Image of Mr. Harris, agent and superintendent of Quincy Mine, Hancock, MI]

Scanned: December 18, 2007


Quincy Mining Company - Mining Captains

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Miners, Copper Miners Mining Captains: Wm. H. Rule, Wm. S. Piper, Geroge Williams, Jerry ONeill, Matt Pelto, Henry Jenkins, George Kopp, Richard Coombs, Con ONeill, Tom Maunders, George Jacobs, Thomas B. Whittle and Charles Kendall. [The captains pose for a photo on the stairs of a building with a porch.]

Scanned: August 12, 2009