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MTU Students - Field Trip

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings Baltic Pit, Polatka, MI

Scanned: June 5, 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


Copper Mines - Underground Scene

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Miners Underground. [Two miners appear to be conducting a surveying project.]

Scanned: June 5, 2009


MTU Students - Field Trips

Persons, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher Pewabic Cradle [Students and men dressed in suits take notes on the structure.]

Scanned: June 5, 2009


Copper Mining

Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Woody Plants, Trees A Temporary Headframe [A man stands next to a wooden frame place over the shaft. A ladder can be seen going into the shaft.]

Scanned: June 5, 2009


MTU Students - Field Trip

Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Persons The "Bunch" underground at the Prince of Wales Iron Mine, Negaunee, MI. [A group of students dressed in mining gear pose for a photo.]

Scanned: June 5, 2009


MTU Students - Field Trip

Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Persons Champion March. [Several students carrying their miners lunch buckets head for the mine.]

Scanned: June 5, 2009


Railroads - Mineral Range

Persons, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining, Transportation, Railroads Mass copper loaded on Mineral Range Railroad flatcar. HAER Report MI-2-102 [One of the railroad employees stands with the copper on flatcar #69.]

Scanned: June 9, 2009


Biography - Samuel B. Harris

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Samuel B. Harris from "Man of Progress of Michigan" F565.M55 pg. 253. [Image of Mr. Harris, agent and superintendent of Quincy Mine, Hancock, MI]

Scanned: December 18, 2007


Quincy Mining Company - Mining Captains

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Miners, Copper Miners Mining Captains: Wm. H. Rule, Wm. S. Piper, Geroge Williams, Jerry ONeill, Matt Pelto, Henry Jenkins, George Kopp, Richard Coombs, Con ONeill, Tom Maunders, George Jacobs, Thomas B. Whittle and Charles Kendall. [The captains pose for a photo on the stairs of a building with a porch.]

Scanned: August 12, 2009