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Shelden Street Looking West

Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Retail Trade, Stores, Retail, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns Shelden Street Looking West - Hayes and Wheeler, Tilden and Hendricks flag poles [A photo looking along Shelden Avenue. A number of buildings are visible and the street is dirt. The print is copied from a stereoview original however MTU Archives is not in possession of it.]

Scanned: November 19, 2009


The Dally Home

Labor Movements, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining The Dally home, showing location of bullet holes [Exterior photograph of house. This house, located in Painesdale, was site of a shooting incident on December 6, 1913, in which three men were killed.]

Scanned: February 6, 2006


Seeberville Location

Labor Movements, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining Seeberville Location [Exterior photograph showing two rows of company houses. One is the home where two strikers were killed and two wounded by deputies August 14, 1913.]

Scanned: February 6, 2006


Osceola Location - Looking South

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Persons, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns Osceola Location looking south. [An expensive looking horse and buggy travel down a dirt road. Several boys occupy themselves in a dirt area with rock and tree stumps. A man leans against a post near the railroad tracks.]

Scanned: May 8, 2009


Site of Seeberville Shootings

Labor Movements, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining The Seeberville home where two strikers were killed and two wounded by deputies August 14, 1913 [Exterior photograph of house with group of men, women and children standing.]

Scanned: February 6, 2006


Copper Mines & Mining - Calumet & Hecla

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Human Settlements, Buildings C & H Location, Southwest from top of high school. [View of the town.]

Scanned: July 16, 2008


Cliff Location

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Cliff Location [View of settlement and mining operations.]

Scanned: May 25, 2010


Calumet and Hecla - Building Construction

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Human Settlements, Buildings, Church Buildings Unspecified Frame Building - Interior. [This may be the building of the reclamation plant in Lake Linden. A church is in the background of the photo. A sign for Jilbert is on one of the stores to the left of the photo along with a sign for R. Rickard Tailor - Cleaning and Pressing.]

Scanned: February 8, 2010


Quincy Smelter

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Buildings, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns This photo of the Quincy Smelter near the Houghton-Hancock drawbridge has received many far-flung compliments. Seen are some of the homes of Ripley, the residential nooks of the hillsides and the top, the Quincy plateau. Portage Lake reflects frigidity and snow while the water is still not ice surfaced, except for the shoreline areas at the bottom of the photo. [Tranquil image of the smelting works and Mont Ripley]

Scanned: January 17, 2007


Quincy Hill

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Buildings Snow on Quincy Hill [Photo taken from Houghton across the frozen lake with Quincy smelter and mine shafts.]

Scanned: October 16, 2007