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Mine Surveying Class

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Mine Surveying Class 1898 [A group of 14 students posed inside a studio. They are wearing lace boots, felt hats, candles and sticks. Caption includes the year 1898 and the students' names: C.F. Spaulding, W.D. Parker, J.J. Murray, A.W. Clark, A.E. Blair, R. Cornell, G.D. Curtis, L.A. Jeffs, A.J. Houle, D.C. Peacock, L.D. Fay, W.F. Brown, H.V. Snell, F. Roberts, H.T. Mercer.]

Scanned: December 14, 2007


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, 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


College class at Isle Royale shaft rockhouse

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, College class at Isle Royale shaft-rockhouse [A group of 75 students posed outside the shaft-rockhouse, with rock hammers, not dressed for underground; same as T94.]

Scanned: May 17, 2006


Michigan College of Mines Group at Quincy Boiler House

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Persons Michigan College of Mines (M.C.M.) trip group outside Quincy #2 boiler house. [A group of students pose outside the building. One of them sits in a wheel barrow. One of the Quincy employees holding a shovel is at the back of the group.]

Scanned: April 12, 2010


Michigan College of Mines Group at Quincy #2 Boiler House

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Persons Michigan College of Mines (M.C.M.) trip group outside Quincy #2 boiler house. [A group of students pose outside the building.]

Scanned: April 12, 2010


MTU Experimental Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Engineering The entrance to the MTU experimental mines is located in East Hancock. The mine formerly was a ventilation shaft in the vast Quincy complex, and never was commercially mined. [Image of the ground level entrance to the mine.]

Scanned: January 15, 2009


MTU - Students

Education, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining Students examine the float copper dsplayed on the Michigan Tech campus. Specimans such as the one shown and the Ontonagon Boulder (also float copper) were evidence of the potential of copper mining in the area. The mining of copper and iron ore led to the need for a mining school. [Michigan Tech Centennial Page 239]

Scanned: May 18, 2009


Mining Class 1898

Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining Mining Class 1898 [A group of students outside the Lake Angeline Mine Office (Michigan Tech Centennial Page 42)]

Scanned: February 14, 2008


Quincy School

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Education, Education, Elementary, Quincy School [An exterior, winter photo of the Quincy School. The school is a two story building with a bell tower. A wood and metal bar fence surrounds the school.]

Scanned: March 15, 2006