Spitzbergen Locations

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Title: Spitzbergen Locations
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources, Transportation, Buildings
Condition: Fair
Description: Grube Nr 2. Longyear City. Spitsbergen. Nr.4o. Enorek Mittetrfo [A rail line and aerial tramway leads to a mine on the slopes of a snowy mountain. Three buildings stand in the foreground]
Source of Description: Front of postcard [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Longyear Family
Date of Photo: c1921
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 8.6 cm x 13.6 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS031-01-03-08
Collection Name: Longyear Spitsbergen Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• This photograph shows part of Longyear City, or Longyearbyen, in the foreground and Mine 2a and associated structures on the mountain in the background. This mine was prepared by the Arctic Coal Company from 1912 but it was Store Norske, the company that purchased the property in 1916, which developed the mine for full production.
4/9/2008 1:43:23 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher