Vertin Brothers, Calumet

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Title: Vertin Brothers, Calumet
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Buildings - Commercial Buildings - Stores, Retail, Manners and Customs - Clothing and Dress, Persons
Condition: Good
Description: Old Vertin Bros. Store. [A photo of the front of the Vertin Brothers Store. A number of employees are standing in front of the store and the store windows contain displays of womens and mens clothing. A display of shoes is also in front of the store. The street appears to be paved with crushed poor rock from the mine.]
Source of Description: Negative notebook database [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: 25.4 cm x 20.2 cm
Polarity: Negative
Image No: MTU Neg 00028
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:
• Calumet was one of the first settlements in the United States for Slovene immigrants. Historians claim that Jozef Vertin and Peter Ruppe were two of the region's Slovene settlers. This photograph shows the Vertin store at the corner of Oak and Sixth Streets in Calumet. When it was first built, the building only had two floors; two more upper floors were added at a later date.Learn more about Slovenes in the Copper Country by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/9/2005 4:19:17 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This is a picture of the store that was owned by Joseph and John Vertin, sons of Mathias Vertin. This family was also from the same village as Josef Wertin, who had stores in Calumet and Hancock and was the father of Bishop John Vertin, the only member of his family who used the Vertin surname.
3/1/2010 12:12:29 AM by Anonymous