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Snowfall

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Persons, Seasons, Winter [A couple gazes in amazement at the snow that completely covers their kitchen window.]

Scanned: March 9, 2009


Snowfall

Seasons, Winter, Buildings, Dwellings, What may be the Copper Country's most complex winter walkway belongs to Walter Lindala of Chassell. It serves a house, three cabins, and a driveway and has two intersections and a long curve. [Good example of a way to avoid shoveling.]

Scanned: January 8, 2009


Communication - Telephone

Persons, Seasons, Winter, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family Robert Burrows, left, and James Myntti check an exchange cable concentrator designed to give better telephone service to rural areas, residents of Painesdale, Baltic and South Range. [Two men of the Michigan Bell Telephone Company stand next to a telephone pole where the concentrator is located.]

Scanned: August 14, 2007


Street Car Rigged with a Snow Plow

Seasons, Winter, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Transportation, Railroads, Street, Railroads Houghton County Traction Company, winter scenes. [Photo shows children watching a street car clearing a snowy road with an attached plow. The conductor can be seen in the car smoking a pipe, while another man pushes snow away from the car's side door.]

Scanned: August 31, 2012


Log Home

Persons, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Seasons, Winter [People stand in front of a log home during winter. A wood pile can be seen on the front porch, presumably for use in the house's wood stove.]

Scanned: October 2, 2013


Buildings - Residences

Buildings, Dwellings, Water, Lakes, Seasons, Winter [Jay Hubbell residence, MCM Campus. Image of the ornate mansion with a view of the Portage canal.]

Scanned: August 13, 2008


Logging - Hall's Camp

Loggers, Dwellings, Lumber Camps, Manpower, Labor, Seasons, Winter Hall's Camp (horses and logs). [Two men appear to be unloading logs from railroad cars.]

Scanned: March 2, 2010


Logging - Hall's Camp

Loggers, Dwellings, Lumber Camps, Manpower, Labor, Seasons, Winter Hall's Camp (men stacking logs). Four men work at stacking large logs.]

Scanned: March 2, 2010


Logging - Hall's Camp

Loggers, Dwellings, Lumber Camps, Manpower, Labor, Seasons, Winter Hall's Camp [Men work at unloading logs from a Copper Range Railroad flat car.]

Scanned: March 2, 2010


Tamarack Residence

Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Seasons, Winter Tamarack house. [Image of a beautiful, large home in winter. A young man stands by the fence. A woman and little girl are coming out of the house. There are no icicles on the roof.]

Scanned: March 2, 2010