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Copper Mining - Calumet and Hecla

Miners, Copper Miners, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor A mine captain and a timber crew lean against square-set timbers in the Calumet and Hecla mine. [Underground shot of the mining captain wearing white and three other miners.]

Scanned: March 20, 2009


Man Engine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress Man Engine designed by J.W. Rawlins [A group of miners ride and wait to ride a man engine out of the mine (Michigan Tech Centennial Page 12)]

Scanned: January 17, 2008


Man Car

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Miners, Copper Miners Mine shaft team [A way of moving men in and out of the mine using a flat car (Michigan Tech Centennial Page 16)]

Scanned: January 17, 2008


Drilling

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Miners, Copper Miners Drilling in a Copper Mine [An artistic rendering of underground work in a copper mine (Michigan Tech Centennial Page 17)]

Scanned: January 17, 2008


The Ingersol Drill

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, The Ingersol Drill ad in The Portage Lake Mining Gazette, 1883 [An artistic rendering of a one man drill operation (Michigan Tech Centennial Page 18)]

Scanned: January 22, 2008


Rock Drills

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Rock drills and their uses [An artist's sketch of a drilling operation (Michigan Tech Centennial Page 18)]

Scanned: January 22, 2008


Miners

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Miners, Copper Miners, Underground mining [A group of miners pose for a picture underground (Michigan Tech Centennial Page 18)]

Scanned: January 22, 2008


Quincy Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Quincy Mine - Cutting Mass Copper [Underground shot of miners with sledge hammers breaking up a large piece of copper. A candle burns on a rock ledge to left of photo.]

Scanned: May 8, 2009


Tamarack Mine #1

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Tamarack Mine #1 - Compressed air drillers and machine at work in lode 15th level. [Underground scene with three miners working the drill, another miner and the captain stand in a drift.]

Scanned: May 8, 2009


Tamarack Mine #1

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Tamarack Mine #1 - Compressed air drillers and machine at work in lode 15th level. [Underground scene with three miners working the drill.]

Scanned: May 8, 2009