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Iron Mine Headframe

Metal Trade, Iron Industry and Trade, Iron Mines and Mining, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Iron Mines and Mining, Railroads, Cars Steel shaft - Norrie Mines - Ironwood [A photo of an open steel mine headframe with rail cars loading ore. Another headfame and poor rock piles are visible in the background.]

Scanned: August 19, 2005


Cities & Towns - Calumet

Buildings, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining View of Calumet showing Tamarack Location "[View of the town and mining operations taken from book "Art Work of Lake Superior Region of Michigan, Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1898 F572.S9 A7 pt. 10 photo 3.]

Scanned: March 6, 2008


Powder House

Labor Movements, Buildings, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining [Strike era photograph of a young man walking past a cord wood powder house.]

Scanned: December 9, 2013


Map of Victoria Mine

Historic Sites, Historic Mines, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining, Alfred C. Lane, State Geologist, Map of Part of T. 50 R. 40 and Vicinity, Ontonagon Co. Michigan including the Victoria Mine, by A. H. Meuche. Including work of field seasons of 1900, 1907, and 1908 and with the aid of notes and maps from the Victoria Mine and notes of W. V. Savicki, R. W. Wieland, P. S. Smith and A. C. Lane.

Scanned: June 21, 2012


Street Car Heading North to Calumet

Transportation, Railroads, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining, Street car heading north to Calumet- passing near Copper Mine- and cattle grazing on Quincy Hill. House in foreground is Charlie Nangas- still occupied by Nangas in May 8, 1973. Anthony's Farm Location in foreground (per Ferris Dennis) mine just south of car.

Scanned: August 17, 2012


Steam Engine

Transportation, Railroads, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons Transporting mining ore from the Atlantic Mine to the Mill in Redridge. [Men stand around a steam engine and ore cars filled with ore.]

Scanned: September 17, 2013


Labor Disputes - Strike Parade

Labor Movements, Buildings, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining [Strike parade marches through downtown Houghton. The Douglass building can be seen as well as several other buildings on Shelden Avenue.]

Scanned: December 9, 2013


Copper Country Strike Scene

Labor Movements, Buildings, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining Strike Scene - Calumet, Michigan. [People of all ages gather to stike on the streets of Calumet.]

Scanned: December 9, 2013


Copper Country Strike Scene

Labor Movements, Buildings, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining Strike Scene - Calumet, Michigan. [People of all ages gather to stike on the streets of Calumet.]

Scanned: December 9, 2013


Copper Mines & Mining - Baltic

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources Stope in Baltic Mine [Photo shows two men standing in the stope.]

Scanned: August 30, 2006