Hancock

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Title: Hancock
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Human Settlements - Cities and Towns, Buildings - Commercial Buildings - Stores, Retail, Transportation - Roads
Condition: Good
Description: Block in Hancock - Corner of Reservation (on L in photo) and Quincy (on R in photo). [Photo of the Holland Cardell & Co. Hardware and Mining Supplies store. The Traders Insurance Company of Chicago is in the same building. There is also a sign for the Sturgeon River Lumber Company. Streets are dirt covered.]
Source of Description: Back of photo [cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Roy Drier
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 11.7 cm x 19.4 cmn
Polarity: Negative
Image No: MTU Neg 00427
Collection Name: Roy Drier Photograph 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 image was taken from in front of Hancock's original fire hall which stood at the east end of Quincy Street at Reservation. The materials stacked in front of the building and the removed to" sign in the window lead me to believe that this photo was taken in 1890 and the building is about to be transformed into the Superior Savings Bank. See MS042-999-T-31 for a good view of the new look. The post office was located here in the 1880s with Morton L. Cardell of Holland, Cardell & Co. serving as postmaster."
8/7/2014 10:48:47 AM by John Haeussler