Spitzbergen Locations

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Title: Spitzbergen Locations
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Human Settlements, Buildings, Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources
Condition: Good
Description: Album Cover: "To the man who started it all John M Longyear from his former clerk care S. Sather 1921." Longyear Valley. [A rail line runs through a small settlement in a valley surrounded by large snowy mountains].
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: MS031-01-02-05
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:
• Longyear City, probably under the ownership of Store Norske. The prominent building was the Arctic Coal Company's store and wasrehouse #3. It was originally a tourist hotel, built in 1896, which was located nearby on Advent Point, Advent Bay.
4/8/2008 11:37:56 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher