Spitzbergen Locations

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Title: Spitzbergen Locations
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources, Human Settlements, Transportation
Condition: Fair
Description: Album Cover: "To the man who started it all John M Longyear from his former clerk care S. Sather 1921." Longyear Valley, Longyear City. [A settlement at the bottom of a mountian adjacent a river drainage. A mine is on the mountainside attached to an aerial tramway and inclined rail line. Two aerial towers stand in the foreground].
Source of Description: Album cover. Front of photograph. [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: 10.9 cm x 14.9 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS031-01-02-22
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 how Store Norske used and expanded Longyear City after they purchased the property. The towers in the foreground are part of an aerial tramway system running from mine 2, now known as mine 2a, to Store Norske's dock.
4/8/2008 11:47:39 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher