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Naumkeg Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Water, Transportation, Railroads Naumkeg Mine [View of waterfront and railroad. Three mining buildings, one of them being a tall, narrow structure.]

Scanned: June 3, 2009


North American Mine, Lake Superior

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , The North American mine in 1850. An early hopeful, it was located not far from the famous Cliff shafts. [A pencil type drawing of the mine.]

Scanned: January 15, 2007


Copper Range Bus Lines

Transportation, Automotive, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Seasons, Winter Copper Range Bus Lines [Photo of Charter Bus #41]

Scanned: February 24, 2011


Calumet and Hecla

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manufacturing Process, Manpower, Labor Sand leaching plant where copper is removed from sand by ammonia process. Calumet & Hecla mills, Lake Linden, MI.

Scanned: December 15, 2009


Old Cliff Cornish Stamp

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Historic Sites, Historic Mines, Old Cornish stamps at Cliff. [Photo of an abandoned Cornish Stamp Battery at the Cliff Mine. The stamps and gearing are visible. The photo is similar to W-822B and W-822A.]

Scanned: September 13, 2005


Osceola Shafts & C&H

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Osceola Shafts & C&H [A photo of a line of shaft-rockhouses. The structure in the foreground has a very tall vent on the collar house. The original negative is broken.]

Scanned: May 17, 2006


Resolute Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Resolute Mine [A man wearing a suit, picks through the rock pile near the shaft house.]

Scanned: August 3, 2010


Cliff Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Historic Sites, Historic Mines, Historical Negatives for Slides- Cliff Mine & Copper Harbor Views [A copy of a Cliff Mine surface drawing from the Foster and Whitney report of 1850. The drawing shows many of the surface structures at the mine including whims, a sorting house and a kiln house.]

Scanned: August 23, 2006


Quincy Mining Company - Other Officers' Houses

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Historic Sites, Historic Mines, Buildings, Dwellings "Clerk's House, Quincy Mine, 1890." Front elevation, first and second floor plans. Located on lot south of QMC Mining Office.

Scanned: October 8, 2008


Quincy Mining Company - Other Officers' Houses

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Historic Sites, Historic Mines, Buildings, Dwellings "Plans and elevations of doctor's house. Quincy Mine. Aug. 1901." Illustrates alterations to an existing building. Located west side of route 41, south of QMC office.

Scanned: October 8, 2008