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Buildings - Residence	Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Transportation, Automotive, Woody Plants, Trees	Reeder residence about 1932 [View from across the street of a beautiful Victorian home. A vintage automobile is parked in a drive way. A very large unknown building can be seen in the background.] Scanned: February 8, 2010	Add
Road Construction	Transportation, Roads, Transportation, Automotive, Woody Plants, Trees	Seven miles of highway, recently paved, between Quincy and Calumet was marked with white and yellow lines by the Michigan state highway department Thursday afternoon. Sunshine, an infrequent visitor in the area in recent days, made the painting project by this motor propelled machinery impossible following completion of the paving by the Thornton Construction Co. about two weeks ago. Pick up truck in rear set up rubber caution markers to permit drying of paint. [The painting crew attempts to paint the lines as traffic passes by.] Scanned: November 16, 2007	Add
Keweenaw Point Rocket Launch	Persons, Woody Plants, Trees, Transportation, Automotive	All was not work at the chilly Keweenaw Point rocket center. Here, from left, Lenard Williams and Mike Brian stop for a coffee brew. Lenard is a native of Tennessee while Mike, born in England, was very interested in the Cousin Jack phases of Keweenaw County. The truck is on loan from the U.S. Army at the Michigan Tech Keweenaw Field Station, Franklin Township location. [The two men take time out for a pot of coffee in a wooded area.] Scanned: March 5, 2009	Add
Bridges	Transportation, Bridges, Transportation, Automotive, Woody Plants, Trees	Come the end of June and the motorists out of Arnheim and within the bounds of the Sturgeon River will be able to use a new bridge. The structure will be a prestressed I-beam type with a poured concrete deck. It will replace the current structure which is of the truss type. Here is the old structure which soon will be removed. [A car travels over the soon to be destroyed bridge.] Scanned: January 20, 2009	Add
Buildings - Cabins	Buildings, Dwellings, Transportation, Automotive, Woody Plants, Trees	[Cabin nestled in the trees. A statue of what appears to be the Virgin Mary sits on a raised garden platform near the driveway. A van is parked in the driveway.] Scanned: November 15, 2010	Add
Calumet & Hecla - Building a New Mine	Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Woody Plants, Trees, Transportation, Automotive	View looking east from road showing temporary rock bin buildings and stiff leg derrick. [Twenty-four in a series of 24 photos showing the steps in building a new mine shaft.] Scanned: October 13, 2009	Add