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Endicott R. Lovell

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, [A studio posed portrait of Mr. Lovell that appeared in the C&H News in November 1944.]

Scanned: December 9, 2005


Adventure Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Adventure Mines - Greenland, Michigan - Historical Copper Mine Tours - A Unique Vacation Experience. Spend an exciting hour or day visiting the famous Old Adventure Copper Mine. Underground and above-ground tours of historic and prehistoric mines. Forest camp sites and picnic grounds. Adventure copper, silver, datolite and other mineral specimens.

Scanned: November 12, 2010


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


Industry

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Engines, Persons Electric Engines [View of steam engines and perhaps compressors in a meticulously kept shop. Three men included in photo]

Scanned: March 23, 2006


Copper Mines & Mining - Calumet & Hecla

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Human Settlements, Persons Calumet and Hecla Mining Co. - mining location unidentified mine site showing shaft houses similar to those used at Quincy and log houses for workers c. 1880. Additional print HAER MI-2-10, (Millionaire's Street, Calumet - identified by Rev. Langseth.) [Good photo in tiers showing a few men on the railroad tracks, a row of homes of the cabin type and mining operations on the third level.]

Scanned: July 16, 2008


Old Colony Shaft

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Persons Old Colony Shaft [A photo of a wooden headframe with a skip on the skip road. A hoist house is visible in the background and three men, a woman and a dog are posing for the photograph. ]

Scanned: October 7, 2005


S. Hecla Hoist Drum

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, #11 Shaft, Calumet & Hecla; S. Hecla Hoist Drum [Distorted photo of people gathered around and on top of the drum.]

Scanned: May 18, 2006


Ice cutting - Huron Dam

Industries, Service Industries, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons Ice cutting - Huron Dam [An exterior photo of three men harvesting ice at the Huron Dam. Two horse-drawn carts and the Huron Mill are in the background. One of the carts is labelled Huron Dam Ice - Meyers Bros. Phone 205.]

Scanned: October 18, 2005


Copper Mines & Mining - Unidentified

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Buildings Hopper [A worker stands on the metal structure. ]

Scanned: October 27, 2006


Labor - Miners

Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining Miners [A group of miners pose on a pile of rocks for a photo. Some of them carry their lunch pails and have candles on their hats.]

Scanned: July 24, 2009