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Osceola Mine - Drillers at Work

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Osceola Mine - Drillers at work. [Underground scene of miners preparing to drill.]

Scanned: May 8, 2009


Tamarack Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Tamarack Mine - Main Level [Miners push a car along the tracks. Massive logs rest on each side of the tracks. The "ceiling" is supported by large timbers as well.]

Scanned: May 11, 2009


Tamarack Mine #1

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Tamarack Mine #1 - 6th level, bottom shaft 3100 feet vertically below surface. [Three miners holding candles pose with an ore car in the dark and damp environment.]

Scanned: May 13, 2009


Tamarack Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Tamarack Mine - Drillers at end of drift. [Underground image of two miners using the drill.]

Scanned: May 8, 2009


Tamarack Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Tamarack Mine - Plat - Car on Cage [Underground image of two miners. One is ready to pull the level which will raise the cage to the surface.]

Scanned: May 13, 2009


Tamarack Mine #2

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Tamarack Mine #2 - 17th Plat - "Hitting Pipe a Bit" after dinner. [A group of miners relax and have a smoke underground.]

Scanned: May 8, 2009


Tamarack Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Tamarack Mine - Head of a Vertical Winze - 16th crosscut, looking along crosscut toward lode. Miners in bucket ready to descend. [Underground image of three miners, two of them in the bucket and the other standing by.]

Scanned: May 11, 2009


Osceola Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Manpower, Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Osceola Mine - Car for lowering miners. [A full car load of miners prepare to descend.]

Scanned: May 8, 2009


Copper Miners - Rockland, Michigan

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Group of copper miners in Rockland, Michigan. Picture throught to be taken before 1900. Name of the mining company is unknown. Back row: Mert Shiroda is the taller of the two men standing in front of the window. Middle row: Fred Shiroda is the fourth man from the right. He has a mustache and is wearing a lighter colored hat.

Scanned: September 23, 2010