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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


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


William Paine

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, William Paine [A studio posed portrait of William Paine in a suit.]

Scanned: December 19, 2005


William Paine

Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, William Paine [A studio posed portrait of William Paine with his signature at the bottom.]

Scanned: December 19, 2005


Quincy Mining Company

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Persons Last piece of a 300 ton mass of copper 4,000 feet down No. 2 Shaft Quincy. Mr. William Rule in white coat. [Group of miners sit on the mass of copper with their mining equipment.]

Scanned: June 5, 2006


Invitation to Fall and Winter Opening Hat Shop

Retail Trade, Stores, Retail, Persons, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress Fall and Winter Opening October 8th and 9th, Friday and Saturday, French Pattern Hats and Bonnets. Millinery Novelties, including a line of Fancy Work. Guilbault & Barkell, Hancock, Michigan.

Scanned: April 13, 2011


Isle Royale Copper Co.

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Persons Isle Royale Copper Co. - No. 5 Dry [Image of the building. Workers stand outside.]

Scanned: December 1, 2008


Isle Royale Copper Co.

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Persons Isle Royale Copper Co. - Shops & Warehouse [Image of buildings.]

Scanned: December 1, 2008


John Lakner Employment Card, Calumet & Hecla Mining Company

Persons, Immigrants, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, [Employment record for John Lakner, an Austrian trammer employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company from 1899 through his death in 1905. According to the card, Lakner was killed November 13, 1905, in a blast on level 119 of the #5 shaft, due to "miscounting the reports of the firing of three block holes."]

Scanned: January 16, 2009