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• Nov. 9th 1913
1/1/2009 11:50:28 AM by Anonymous
Name:Andy
Hello, I was stationed at Calumet AFB from July 1966 to June 1968. At that time the area got over 300 inches of snow each year. During the first winter there, it snowed for 77 days straight. I worked as an AC&W operator. Lived for most of my tour of duty in the airman's barracks, east building, second floor, first room as you come up the stairs. Jay Hernandez from San Antonio, TX was my room mate. In the barracks there was a TV but we could only pick up one Canadian TV station. We could pick up two radio stations; one spoke in Finnish and the other was a Canadian station in English. We spent many hours in the NCO club playing cards and liar's dice. Packers football games were exciting events in the NCO club.Certainly was an interesting experience to live on this base. Used to play the piano in the NCO Club and at two different bars downtown Calumet. Did not have a car for the first year there but got one during the second year. Use to hitch hike to Calumet or would catch a ride with the civilians that worked in the chow hall.Saw plenty of bears at the bear pit and in the woods. Also one year a car was in a wreck and landed on top of a snow bank. The vehicle was left there until the snow melted in April/May. I think the warmest day was in August 1969; a bunch of us soldiers went to a beach on the west shore and jumped into Lake Superior. It was a whopping 70 degrees that day; highest temperature of the year.Before I left for my next assignment, we had a big 'get together' on the shore of the lake at the base of the mountain. About ten cars of airman came roaring down the hill. We made a circle with the cars and built a fire in the center. Airman Moe drove his car through the fire. That was dangerous! Andy
1/1/2014 3:44:49 PM by Anonymous
• From donor Phyllis Fredendall: The older man was my grandfather, Joseph Talbot. He was the minister at Paine Methodist Church in Painesdale. The photo must have been taken in 1945. My mother, Dorothy Talbot, is left of center wearing white and holding a potato. She is smiling and looking toward the photographer. She was 15 at the time of this photo. My aunt, Phyllis Talbot, would have been 13 and is third from the left with curly hair and no hat. She is looking at one of the boys on the right.""
1/10/2008 7:58:09 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The pilings for the dock, even abandoned when this picture was taken, are still visible today.
1/10/2016 10:22:50 PM by Dhprobotics
• This looks like the bottom of Isle Royale street. That this the old Library Restaurant on the right -- before the fire.
1/11/2007 2:53:16 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This looks like the bottom of Isle Royale street. That this the old Library Restaurant on the right -- before the fire.
1/11/2007 2:54:55 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Taken by J. W. Nara 1913 or 1914 of Prosper Thibodeau on property that he bought from Thibodeau's son after the father died. The disc. of property is in Sec. 7-54-32 West and originally contained about 60 acres. J. W. Nara sold most of the shore line as lots for summer homes. The plat of the property which was surveyed by a Mr. Mattson of Mich. Tech and was named Prosper Park in honor of the original owner who homsteaded the property in 1860 on which we still have a copy of the homstead papers signed by President Buchanan. The man in the background is not known. Mr. P. Thibodeau was living in this shack after his log cabin burned down. About 16 acres of this property now belongs to Dr. R. O. Nara and on which there is about 1000' of shoreline on the so called Point" part of the property. (Dated 1/16/65 - W. O. Nara) [From back of photograph]"
1/11/2010 2:24:25 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• A print of this photograph is in Collection MS-003, Box 25B, Image #260, and is labelled Isle Royale #7 Shaft temporary surfac plant. Descriptive information from this collection indicates that the images appear to date to the winter of 1915/1916. (Image #239 shows the construction of a concrete shaft collar at the #7 Isle Royale shaft and the company’s annual reports indicate this construction occurred between December 1915 and March 1916).
1/11/2011 12:00:27 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This is the St. Claire Mine.
1/11/2011 12:27:55 PM by Anonymous
• Is this a Water Spaniel?"
1/12/2010 4:59:46 PM by Anonymous
• The other team is North Dakota. There is an emblem of a fighting sioux on their sweaters. - Bob Cunningham, MTU Class of 1978
1/12/2011 5:28:36 PM by Anonymous
• Should be 6th and ELM
1/12/2014 2:52:02 PM by Anonymous
• My great grandfather belonged to the Sons of ST Georgein Centerville, a district in Butte,MT. He was caretakerof the lodge building prior to his death from silicosisin 1912.
1/12/2014 5:35:40 PM by Anonymous
• In the boom years of the Copper Country prior to 1913, Edward Ulseth, contractor and builder, was active in construction of home and business establishments. One of the many brick structures built is the two-story one on Ahmeek Street which for years has been in the Stimac family.But when it was built in 1908, John R. Bennetts was the manager of the concern known as J. R. Bennetts & Co. He was a dealer in groceries, hardware, gent's funishings, dry goods and clothing.In a 1916, Houghton County directory, it indicated that Albert E. Everetts was a partner in the firm. In the 1920's, William Stimac, Anton Stimac and Thomas Silich took over the store as a partnership. Edward Chaput, now of Detroit, was the bookkeeper.William Stimac has been an employee of the Peninsula Market in Copper City, a branch store of the Calumet establishment on Sixth Street.The Stimacs and Silich made deliveries even as far as Calumet with two teams out daily.In addition to staple groceries and meats, feeds and hay were delivered. William Stimac stayed in the business until 1942 and Anton Stimac died in 1943. Silich then sold out his interests to Vicent and Mike Stimac, sons of William in 1948. Mike Stimac has operated the store since the early 1950's when his brother left the area. Stimac still carries a supply of staple groceries and meats in lesser supply. Some deliveries are made and there are still some credit customers.An unusual site in the store is the appearance of the original one story high refrigeration unit used for meats and cold storage. It was manufactured by Wolf, Sayer & Heller of Chicago and New York.During the depression years, the second story was the scene of dancing and card games. The old Mandan Hayseeds Orchestra furnished the music.Today, Copper City has about 200 residents, far less than in the hey-day years, but in time of need the 70 year old grocery can be depended on to supply a resident's immediate need when it arises. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - March 8, 1978.]
1/13/2009 9:16:47 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Seventy years ago Allan and John Erlandson opened a grocery business on Ahmeek Street as a convenience for its residents. Today, Allan Erlandson's son Roy, is still carrying on the business of Erlandson's Store. The father died in 1948.Business activity has declined from the lush years, but Erlandson is not in a competitive business so is not concerned.His store is a convenience to the resident who may need an item of necessity and does not have to travel far to get it.Dairy products for instance are always available. But in the early years, groceries, meats, dairy products and livestock feeds were sold and delivered. Erlandson's Store is open at times convenient for the owner. He has been a school bus driver for 16 years for School District No. 2 and Calumet Public Schools.Erlandson recalled that his father had the first car in Copper City and had the first son to be born in the village in 1909.Cost of the original building including heating plant, other essentials and a used truck was $6,220. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - March 8, 1978]
1/13/2009 9:32:32 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:Jeff Ryding
MTU Class of:1993
This engine was #29 Keweenaw Central, formerly a Copper Range Railroad engine. the photo is taken in Ripley. The engine in front of 29 is an old Northern Pacific locomotive as far as I can remember. It had missing parts. I think the unit behind #29 is a diesel powered locomotive used for pulling the excursion train between Calumet and Lake Linden after #29 developed boiler problems. This railroad operated in the late 1960's.
1/13/2010 9:12:08 PM by Anonymous
• Buildings shown: (L to R) Oil house (bathrooms), Shafthouse #2 (1892), Supply Office (Gift Shop), and Carpenter Shop
1/13/2014 6:37:29 PM by pomazalce
Name:Carolyn Gasperich
MTU Class of:
I think this might be the Dodgeville School.
1/13/2015 11:45:12 PM by Anonymous
• Actually that's the old Calumet rock house in the center, Calumet shaft houses #4 near, #5 distant, and Calumet Dam in the back.
1/14/2013 1:57:35 PM by Anonymous
• Compare to MS042-013-053-956.28 "This shot has to be from the same location, which would make this a Hecla engine house and shaft house (#3?) after 1875."
1/14/2013 4:28:46 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is actually of the clean up of the Hecla Cemetery in the 1950's
1/15/2014 5:55:58 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is actually of the Hecla cemetery during the clean up in the 1950's
1/15/2014 5:56:36 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Phoenix Church in Keweenaw County
1/16/2008 9:54:22 PM by Anonymous
Name:Ted Cole
MTU Class of:1975
Yes, Spanky's became Diamond Mikes about 1974. It had a bar downstairs, and 3 rooms upstairs, with an upstairs bar it used on busy nights.
1/16/2010 4:01:33 PM by Anonymous
• Railroad track layout is wrong for #13, this shows from the southside. #13 track came in from the north side. This is more like C&H's Osceola Lode #15, although the building over the actual mine entrance is different from the one shown in a FSA depression era photo.
1/16/2012 10:39:24 PM by yooper557
Name:Julie Stevens Beck
MTU Class of:1986
The A. Haas Brewery building was owned by my great great grandfather Gottieb Hartmann. Over the years this building has had a number of different owners. The building still stands today after having had a fire when it was the People's Market. The third floor no longer exists. This building according to the Polk Directories at one time was rented out/used by a number of different organizations including the Knights of Carpathia, The Foresters and others.
1/16/2015 8:47:22 PM by JMBeck62
• My grandmother Florence Orvilla Brimbacombe and her sisters Bernice Ophelia, and Mabel all attended school in this building. My Grandmother used to say that she was supposed to have graduated in 1921 yet she was able to go back to the new" school for a year and took business courses. "
1/16/2015 9:33:46 PM by JMBeck62
• I was wondering if there was any floor plans for any of these buildings? I am working on a big project that I need for it.
1/17/2010 11:09:29 PM by bjeffery
• well done susan harvey adams at last i have found my long lost ancestorsthis is the first time i have found this siteit wont be the lastmr alfred nicholls west lothian scotland
1/17/2011 4:58:20 PM by Anonymous
• Do you know the physical address or general vicinity??
1/17/2013 2:33:35 PM by Anonymous
• My dad, George T. Wilder was stationed there from early 1964 to 1966, at which time he retired. Dad passed away in 2008. I don't remember much of the base myself. I do remember the good fishing, all the snow and bears. I was hoping someone might remember him or stories of him. Thanks
1/17/2014 6:11:47 PM by Anonymous
• There are two different sources of additional information about this photograph. The first is a handwritten document taped to the back of this print in Box 2, Folder 31 of collection MS-033 from the Quincy Mine Hoist Association, which gives the source as Mrs. June (Collins) Puska." The second is a copy negative of this same photograph also stored in this folder which includes names typed on some other print version of the photograph (there is no source given). One claims the photo was taken in July 1910, the other says August 1910. Both include a list of names:Back Row: (left to right) 1) Louis Sweeney/Sweeny, 2) Bill Odgers, 3) Roy Williams, 4) Bill Jeffery/Jeffrey, 5)unknown, 6) unknown/John May, 7) Walter Dugdale, 8) John Thomas, 9) Wilbur Huntley, 10) Walter Collins, 11) Steve Rouleau, 12) Ed Dugdale, 13) Harry George, 14) George Johnson, and 15) Barney TidyFront Row: (left to right) 1) Richard/Dick Bice, 2) Bert Fuge, 3) Joseph/Joe Giles, 4) Arthur Kendall, 5) Tom White, and 6) John/Johnny O'Neill"
1/18/2006 4:07:54 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This shows a group of protesters on the steps of the former Calumet Armory, with the Calumet & Hecla Library just left of center. The American flag in the upper right of the image seems to have lettering on it. Something with Toivo" and "Calumet, Mi." From the original print, one can read the signs: "We Mean Hietala, Brander, Mikko, Pietila, Alane, Warmanen, Reinikainen" / "No Red Flags For Us" / "We Mean What We Say" / "40,000 Finns Demand Mikko Must Go" / "We Want Work, Peace, Plenty Not Agitators" / "The Agitators Must Go" / "The Agitators Won't Deceive The Finns Again""
1/18/2010 8:35:24 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Posted by Brenda Helminen, daughter of David R. Liimatta, MechanicalEngineering graduate, 1962 from an email I got from my dad concerning this picture. Many family and friends recognized my dad in this photo.He's the left-most student in the center of the picture.If that's me in the picture, it was not taken in 1953 but more likely in 1961 or 62. I took that lab and Prof. Bayer was our instructor. The equation on the board is for the fuel specific gravity which means part of the assignment was to determine brake specific fuel consumption". Little did I know then that I'd be spending the rest of my career working with engines and would actually spend hundreds if not thousands of hours in dynamometer cells similar to that one at Tech. As in the picture, we all had khaki pants and plaid shirts in those days. Notice that I had artics with zippers, some of the less sophisticated guys had boots with buckles---yuck. I don't see any slide rules around, but we all had them. Cool guys carried them in their shoulder bags, and the nerds had their cases attached to their belts. Most of us used Post slide rules but mom [Adele M. (Immonen) Liimatta, Chemistry MS grad '61] had a circular one. She was always more accurate than me. As far as the dynamometer cell was concerned, it was very basic in the pre-emission days. When I was at Ethyl corporation, we donated some Infrared instruments so that the engine air/ fuel ratio and fuel distribution could be analyzed from the exhaust gas constituents. Also, I can't imagine that we were standing beside an engine which was revving at high speed with no shielding in front of us. At Holley, Ethyl and Ford, they were alot more safety conscious than we were at Tech. This was a good start me, I loved engines and had the opportunity to work with them my entire career, finishing up as an Engine Design Manager at Ford.dad"
1/19/2006 4:58:47 PM by Anonymous
• This is Quincy's office! I recognize the fireplace, and Keweenaw National HIstorical Park has a copy of this photo as well. - Renee Blackburn, MTU Class of 2011
1/19/2011 3:29:14 PM by Anonymous
• Man wearing glasses was Charles Finger, Brewmaster.
1/2/2009 10:09:22 AM by Anonymous
• Eagle Harbor Coast Guard made a rescue to this ship
1/2/2011 5:25:11 PM by Anonymous
• Portage Life Saving Station surfmen assisted in recovering bodies.. One gal out of the Altman family survived.
1/2/2011 5:27:13 PM by Anonymous
• Portage Life Saving Station and Eagle Harbor Life Saving Stations rescued crew off with tug Hebard bringing crew back to Houghton. Exceptional heroism in the rescue. All surfmen and Keepers earned a prestious Gold Medal.
1/2/2011 5:33:29 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Portage Coast Guard made rescue of 9 crew members who would jump.. 11 did not jump into the lifeboat and died.
1/2/2011 5:36:01 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Portage Life Saving Station recovered bodies.
1/2/2011 5:37:37 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Gold Medal awardee Oscar Marshall was one surfman on this rescue. He grew up on North Houghton Canal.. married Emma Koski..my husband's great great uncle by marriage. Oscar and Emma Koski are buried in Oskar Cemetery.
1/2/2011 5:40:34 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Eagle Harbor Coast Guard made a rescue of 31 crew on this steamer
1/2/2011 5:42:57 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Eagle Harbor Coast Guard rescued 31 crew off this freighter
1/2/2011 5:44:01 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Eagle Harbor Coast Guard surfmen and Keeper spotted the wreck as they brought back crew of shipwreck Maytham to the Station. Surfmen came back to Bangor to rescue crew who stayed at the Bergh's home. Chrysler and Whippet autos on board.
1/2/2011 5:49:31 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Portage Life Saving Station surfmen and Keeper rescued 6 of crew, gave them dry clothing from station's supply, and allowed Wenona crew to stay overnight.
1/2/2011 5:53:31 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Portage Coast Guard assisted in transfer of passengers from ship to shore and back to Coast Guard ship who took passengers to port.
1/2/2011 5:55:53 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Portage Life Saving Station made rescue of 25 crew. Largest loss of cargo up to that time. Oct. 19, 1910
1/2/2011 5:59:25 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
This is the second location of the Portage Ship Canal Life Saving Station. It was here until 1935 when with widening of the canal it moved farther down canal towards Houghton.
1/2/2011 6:46:53 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
First location of the Portage Life Saving Station.. 1884 to 1902.
1/2/2011 6:47:57 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Now home of the Keweenaw Co. Historical Society's Life Saving and Coast Guard museum. First summer was in 2010.
1/2/2011 6:49:41 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
This is the North or Upper Entry of Portage Ship Canal Lighthouse. Built in 1874.. four years after the dredging of the North Entry was completed.
1/2/2011 6:54:35 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
North Entry or Portage Ship Canal Lighthouse on West bank of canal
1/2/2011 6:55:56 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Portage Coast Guard on Oct 10, 1931 took Captain and some crew to Chassell to notify owners of the fire of the wooden steamer.
1/2/2011 7:42:51 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Portage Life Saving Station surfmen.. North Entry.
1/2/2011 7:49:02 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Can this be the JC Morse tug that the Portage Life Saving Service Nov. 13, 1889 lightened the cargo and pumped dry.?
1/2/2011 7:57:54 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Portage Life Saving Station with Keeper McCormick freed this tug on Sept 15, 1911.
1/2/2011 8:00:06 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
This is Esrey Park near Agate Harbor
1/2/2011 8:28:50 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Bradley caught fire 1931. Portage Coast Guard took Capt. and some crew to Chassell to notify owners of fire.
1/2/2011 8:43:44 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
Docked at Portage Life Saving Station.. one can see the lighthouse on the west side of canal.
1/2/2011 8:47:06 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
When this steamer had wreck, cargo of butter washed up at Agate Harbor's Butter Bay! (how it got it's name according to Bob Carlton)
1/2/2011 8:50:42 PM by Anonymous
• I love this pic! =) Mary Chopp
1/2/2012 2:36:21 PM by Anonymous
• Right- Tranquillo Andreozzi, father of Rosemary Assunta Andreozzi Schwenk. The only miner smiling so far! =) --Mary Schwenk Chopp
1/2/2012 6:47:45 PM by Anonymous
• This is part of an image which is in Tyler's Souvenir of The Copper Country" from 1903. The label in that book is "Day and night shift of C. & H. Mine, 1874, Capt. Thos. Hoatson, Supt." The building on the upper right is the Calumet Compressor House, identified from the 1881 panoramic of Calumet at the Library of Congress."
1/2/2013 1:11:42 PM by Anonymous
• I think this photo is probably from the mostly Finnish Anti-sosialisti Liito, or Anti-socialist League. There were chapters in Calumet and Hancock for sure. The Finnish American Historical Archive has a minutes book from the Hancock organization and notes regarding the organization in Armas Holmio's collections.My personal take on the organization is that it was a way for those who were not sympathetic to the strike movement to reclaim the good standing of Finnish immigrant community members. Meaning, Finns were so associated with the strike, many Finns who were antithetical to the strike and its ideological foundations were looking for a way to distance themselves from the strike events and the Finns associated with the strike. This distancing took formal and informal forms, the Anti-socialsit League being a formal way to say the socialist Finns don't speak for all of us, and this was certainly true. In Hancock, Suomi College was home to many in this organization, and if I remember correctly from the minutes book, which contained lists of those signing up, there were a number of clergy from the Suomi Synod and business owners who were supportive of Suomi College. In Calumet, you might see more Suomi Synod members, and business owners and ascending middle class men and women like the Sorsens, O.J. Larson, Keckonen, perhaps Maggie Walz, and Charles Jackola, though not sure if any of these men or women were in the group.I write a little about the Anti-socialist League in the upcoming book, and I'm pasting below the text about the group: It was in this last hour of concession that the Finnish Anti-socialist League officially organized in the Copper Country. The first formal meeting of Hancock’s Anti-socialist League met on April 9, 1914, in Rouleau Hall. Calumet Finns organized a branch of the Anti-socialist League on May 10 of the same year, holding a large gathering in the Calumet National Guard Armory. The Hancock League’s first meeting saw 22 people attend. The second meeting saw Swaby Lawton, Hancock City Attorney and brother of Quincy Mine Superintendent Charles Lawton join the group as a new member of “good social standing.” The second meeting attracted 38 new members, the third meeting 41 new members, the fourth 63 and then by the fifth meeting women joined the ranks. This co-ed meeting drew 42 new members, but after that, numbers of new members began to drop-off dramatically. Altogether, the League’s ranks comprised roughly 285 members who met at the Rouleau Hall, Kauth Block Hall and after the fourth meeting, exclusively at Pohjantähti Temperance Hall. --- Gary Kaunonen, M.S.,Industrial ArchaeologyPhD candidate, Rhetoric and Technical Communication
1/20/2010 9:45:49 AM by Anonymous
• Predictably, the group focused almost solely on socialist-unionist activities in Hancock. Whether the League was dog piling on Copper Country Finnish socialist-unionists after the strike or reacting to a perceived threat, the League seemingly was working to thwart any future twitches that might again bring about another strike-like event. Ever vigil, the group utilized the power of the mining companies through the local company influenced media: We discussed the ball (dance) at Kansankoti. Secretary E. Saastamoinen suggested that we should make a petition for the city council of Hancock to keep an eye on the event. At this time, it was considered to be enough to write an article about it to the Mining Gazette. A. Braum took responsibility for the task. Secretary E. Saastamoinen was asked to write about the same thing to Amerikan Suometar." The Hancock League was however a short-lived organization, the last meeting entry for the Hancock Anti-socialist League occurred only a half-year later on September 12, 1915. Now, whether these people in the photo were affiliated with the Calumet Anti-socialist League, I have no way of knowing, but I would guess that there was some association between the group of people in the photo and the Anti-socialist League in Calumet. As you can read from the above book passage, in Hancock anyway, mining companies were supportive of the League. All those names on the signs are Finns associated with leadership positions in the WFM or the Finnish Socialist Federation locals. Sometimes they were referred to as "foreign agitators," and most were recent immigrants, as were many in the Finnish immigrant population, but one notable Heimer Mikko was a second generation Copper Country Finnish American. I've met a couple of Mikko's relatives, one who lives in Alaska. They donated an obit for him, and Mikko comes up in various histories of the Finnish American left. --- Gary Kaunonen, M.S.,Industrial ArchaeologyPhD candidate, Rhetoric and Technical Communication"
1/20/2010 9:46:17 AM by Anonymous
• sweet
1/20/2012 2:23:42 PM by Anonymous
• Now much reduced because of the conclusion of the regular spring term, this group of Sigma Rho, chassell men, were snapped under their sign which was erected to designate the longtime fraternity which started out in Houghton and moved to Chassell. Most of the personnel here have gone to their homes for the summer but two other men now are looking after the property. They are Tom Lawitzke and James Lee. Those in the picture, besides Dude, the dog, are Robert Sturk, Mick Jones, Dale Vertanen, Craig Cox, Tom Narva, Craig Crockett, Glenn Vangelderen, James Smith, James Hayden, Martie Rouse, Ken Kozak and Paul Decelle. The new fraternity house is much enjoyed by the students in that it has ample lake frontage, excellent water skiing, picturesque scenery and advantageous access to US-41. [Daily Mining Gazette, Thursday, June 3, 1976 page 4]
1/21/2009 1:02:24 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The smelter tended to end its days in 1905 because other smelters had been built in Dollar Bay, the Torch Lake district, Cowles Creek,Ripley, and Quincy.The facility depended mainly upon the small reverberatory furnace for its refining and it had ready access to water routes by way of Portage Channel near the drawbridge.The Houghton County Marina extension is what will make the office more prone to analysis in that the adaptations of the present marina will proceed south of the office and east of it to almost surround it on three sides. The north, obviously, will be free and so will some of the west portions.No other smelting structure in the Copper Country can vie with the office on the basis of its antiquity. [Daily Mining Gazette, Saturday, May 29, 1976, page 12]
1/21/2009 1:22:06 PM by Anonymous
• Some of the mines which used the early refinery which was located in Smeltingville, Ripley, were the Pewabic, Franklin, Quincy, Calumet, Hecla, Scott, Portland, Isle Royale, Huron, Minnesota, Cliff, Albany and Boston, Arcadian, Highland and Concord, just to name a few. [Daily Mining Gazette, Saturday, May 29, 1976, page 12]
1/21/2009 1:27:21 PM by Anonymous
• When it comes to heritage structures, the road office sure rates, for it was in this building that the accounting for the Detroit and Lake Superior smelter took place and, as one may realize, this refinery catered to most of the more important mines of the entire four-county Copper Country. Daily Mining Gazette, Saturday, May 29, 1976, page 12
1/21/2009 1:29:19 PM by Anonymous
• The students are not heading home, they are heading up the hill from the Painesdale Depot to the High School.
1/21/2011 12:34:33 PM by Anonymous
• Great picture! I can identify this cabin by the lay of the land. Today it serves as the Visitor Center at Old Victoria. Built in 1899 by the Victoria Copper Mining Company, it was restored in the mid-1970s. -- Patty Pattison
1/21/2012 3:48:47 PM by Anonymous
• The name is probably Savela - I remember my grandfather talking about it.
1/22/2009 11:46:32 AM by Anonymous
• Huotari and Toivo
1/22/2009 11:49:17 AM by Anonymous
• This is my dad's house, and you're right about the location. Most of the fence is gone now, but pieces of it are still in place. You'll notice a garage put in place last year on the hillside now.
1/22/2009 1:24:41 PM by Anonymous
Name:Jan Dalquist
This is how I recall the building. The photo is taken looking south from the downhill, north side. As Irecall (from the late '50s) the mill was on the east end of what is nowthe Isle Royale National Park grounds. It was owned by Julia Slagg andI think Curt Eggleston, who was a member of our church, was the manager. When Lloyd was pastor of the Presbyterian church, which waslocated at the square, we frequently took walks down the street to thewaterfront. I believe that after the millceased operation Erickson Feed and Seed first opened their businessthere. The Hamar-Quandt building was further east, about where the rental units are located today.
1/22/2010 9:04:39 AM by Anonymous
• Looks like the Phoenix mine on us 41.
1/22/2011 8:34:28 AM by Anonymous
• Well, spent some trying to figure this photo out. If this is Osceola, with C&H in the background, the world has changed. Much easier though, the photo is reversed. I am guessing, this shaft in the foreground is actually Osceola #5 with #4 and #3, behind that is C&H #13 on the Osceola lode. The C&H conglomerate shafts are showing here to the right where they should actually be to the left.
1/22/2012 6:53:55 PM by yooper557
• This had to be after they rescued all the old cars from the ship that sank near Copper Harbor.
1/23/2013 1:01:12 PM by Anonymous
Name:Robert Marcheschi
MTU Class of:
On the right hand side (west) was a wooden side walk which ran from Trimountain to South Range.
1/23/2014 6:19:45 PM by Anonymous
• The church is identified as the Methodist Church in Donald Chaput's book The Cliff"."
1/24/2008 8:34:33 AM by davef908
• The Calumet section of the 1912 Polk Directory has the following listing: Kirby F M & CO, James J Nicholson Mngr, 5c and 10c Store, 310 5th." "
1/25/2008 4:21:25 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• As a child I grew up a short distance from the remains of this engine house (my Grandfather's comapny house) near the Brooklyn site. Some remains are still there.
1/25/2009 5:38:38 PM by Anonymous
• Copper Range RR school train.
1/26/2009 10:59:39 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this was taken in front of the Union, spring of 70, after the Kent State ruckus. That is probably the Chem-Met building going up in the background. Several of us, got an appointment with Governor Bill Milliken and drove to Lansing to work with his staff at setting up better lines of communication to avoid a Kent State situation in Michigan. As I recall, it did very little to help my Calculus grade. -- George C. Ellison http://www.admin.mtu.edu/alumni/techalum/2008-09/08.12.29.php
1/26/2009 2:43:53 PM by Anonymous
• The Protest Photo looked vintage enough for my time at Tech. Sure enough, I found myself in the picture! Don't remember the specific event, but we had more than one poorly attended war protest on our conservative campus (compared to UM and other liberal schools of that time). We were all worried about being drafted and Tech kept us pretty busy! Not a very diverse crowd of students, eh? That's the way it was. It was the 1969-70 school year. I was an RA that year in Tombstone Territory and I recognized one of the guys from my house, George Ellison, in the photo, too.The enlarged photo shows the ongoing massive utility improvement program that was under way at the time - remember the steam tunnel that was installed right down the center of campus? US-41 had been removed by the time this photo was taken, even though there is a car in the middle of campus in the photo. You can see the new Chem-Bio building as well as the soon to be removed Sperr Hall along with the ME-EM building and McNair Hall. Koenig Hall had been removed the summer of 1968 just before I got to Tech. We were still watching hockey at Dee Stadium, too! A whole lot of MTU history was being removed, and the change that followed was significant. What a great photo of a dramatic time at Tech.What a great place it was - and still is! -- John Northrup, Civil Engineering, Michigan Tech Class of 1972 http://www.admin.mtu.edu/alumni/techalum/2008-09/08.12.29.php
1/26/2009 2:45:28 PM by Anonymous
• I not only remember this—I was the chairman of the committee that organized what I believe was the only student strike in Tech history. There are more pix (but no real narrative) in the 1972 Keweenawan.And the time frame was late April or early May 1972, not 1969 or 1970. You can tell by the construction work in the background on the mall—the sidewalks and landscaping—which was not started until the MechEng building was completed.The protest was directed at a renewed bombing campaign against North Vietnam and it was part of a wave of anti-war campus protests before the 1972 election.The two people I recognize for certain are Jim West and Dave Shangle—my Phi Kappa Theta fraternity brothers. I also see a “KLF” t-shirt down in front, which stood for Keweenaw Liberation Front. The KLF was, as I recall, more of an environmental activist group but they were certainly opposed to the Vietnam War; I think Kerry Irons, one of the key people in the KLF movement, is in the picture down in the lower left corner.The entire story is complicated, and even today, controversial to some. As the US was withdrawing troops in early 1972, the North attacked the South army, and was on the verge of routing the South army, which retreated in panic and disorganization. American bombing beat back the North army, but then more bombing (probably the most intense of the entire war), including civilian targets in the North (like water supply systems), started.Many people in the US were upset, and, even though the Kent State incident had slowed student protest, more protests broke out—for me, the military events in Vietnam suggested that the South could never defend itself, and that the people of the South weren’t willing to die to defend their freedom. At that point, close to 50,000 Americans had been killed in the war. Support for the war had decreased to a low point; President Nixon had said he would end the war with a secret plan, GI’s were coming home, and now this renewed failure of the South army suggested that we might never leave Vietnam.When protests started on other campuses, more than a hundred angry students called on the Student Council to become involved. A special meeting of was held in the lecture hall in the Civil Engineering building, and the room was packed. Tempers were running high; some of those present were advocating protest actions that could easily become violent. As president of the senior class, and a member of the Council, I was asked to organize some meaningful form of protest, and we eventually settled on a rally and teach-in—or symposia about the war. Most classes were cancelled; it was effectively a one-day student strike.The picture is from the rally, which was held on the steps of the Union. Lectures followed; there were no confrontational incidents as far as I know.My personal feelings weren’t completely ideological; I primarily acted because I believed our guys were dying for nothing. And I can also tell you that Ray Smith, the University President at that time, spoke with me at commencement in June. If he was in anyway disappointed or angry about the protest, he never said so to me. He treated me with respect and warmth when we talked. My guess is that he was relieved that the day passed in a very orderly and polite fashion. It’s easy to forget that the architecture of the Admin Building was reputed to have been a result of concerns about student-driven political violence—the small windows, the constricted entrance way, no grand lobby area—few people remember that administration buildings across the country were occupied by student protesters for days at a time on some campuses.Finally, I think it’s important to note for the record that I enlisted in the Army in August—after getting my degree—and served my two years and got an honorable discharge. -- Mike Anleitner, Michigan Tech, Class of 1972 http://www.admin.mtu.edu/alumni/techalum/2008-09/08.12.29.php
1/26/2009 2:47:41 PM by Anonymous
• This photo looks like the one I remember from fall of 1971, my freshman year. A nice looking co-ed came through DHH (men only then) one night shouting that students were gathering at one of the engineering buildings to discuss recent Vietnam War actions. She was able to get over half of DHH out of their rooms to join in within minutes. We packed a lecture room and heard about how Nixon was ordering full scale bombing of Laos and that U of WI Madison was planning a protest. We all voted to have one of our own and hoped that students would skip classes one afternoon and listen to anti-war speeches. This photo appears to be from the steps of the Union from where the speakers stood. If this is that day in 1971, I am probably not in the picture since I only stayed for awhile and didn’t want to miss my math class! I always remembered with amazement how that young co-ed got us all moving so quickly!! A classic Tech moment!!-- John Garrett, BSCHE, Michigan Tech Class of 1975
1/26/2009 2:48:55 PM by Anonymous
• The large protest crowd was part of the response to the Kent State shootings in 1970. I knew a large percentage of that crowd. The university sort of shut down in protest; a strike was called but not everyone participated for fear of falling behind in their classes or in disagreement with the idea of a strike.The one person for sure that I recognize is sitting on the ground to the left of the table (third person over with sunglasses). That's John Schaefer with his KLF (Keweenaw Liberation Front) sweatshirt beneath his open jacket. See page 179 of the 1970 yearbook for more details on the KLF -- Kerry Irons, Michigan Tech Class of 1972 http://www.admin.mtu.edu/alumni/techalum/2008-09/08.12.29.php
1/26/2009 2:49:43 PM by Anonymous
• I remember that my late husband, John MacInnes, received a call the evening of the protest. He and Harold Meese (pictured here) were asked to address the students at the Memorial Union. They felt the students would listen to them as well respected faculty on campus. If I remember correctly, John spent most of the night there in dialogue with the students. Afterward he commented that he had learned a lot from them and respected their points of view. It lead to many discussions regarding the Vietnam War around our dinner table with our own teenagers. -- Jerry MacInnes http://www.admin.mtu.edu/alumni/techalum/2008-09/08.12.29.php
1/26/2009 3:50:06 PM by Anonymous
• I recall having to go downtown Houghton to register for the draft on my 18th birthday. It was a little room in and upstairs office, maybe one desk. I filled out a form and was done. I also recall the night of the draft lottery, February 2, 1972. Everyone in the dorm was listening to the radio as they drew the birth dates. Mine was 325 but I remember another in our House whose number was 15…I think he went to the bar that night. I don’t think I know anyone who was actually drafted though.What a time. -- Don Beyer, Michigan Tech Class of 1976 http://www.admin.mtu.edu/alumni/techalum/2008-09/09.01.12.php
1/26/2009 3:51:07 PM by Anonymous
• My cousin.
1/26/2012 6:25:50 AM by Anonymous
• I think this is Trinity Church on Montezuma Ave, because this same picture is in the Church hallway. The house in the picture I believe was turned into the Nancarrow Funeral Home at some point. It has been torn down now , and a garage sits there.
1/26/2013 1:53:06 PM by Anonymous
• According to HAER report for the Quincy Mine the Quincy & Torch Lake Railroad ran from the mine to the stamp mill. The Q&TL was narrow gauge. As shown the DSS&A transported the ore from the stamp mill to the smelter. The DSS&A was standard gauge rail road.
1/27/2007 8:29:46 PM by davef908
• Does anyone remember the 1972 drug roundup and arrests of 8 airmen and 2 wives?
1/27/2009 6:28:07 AM by Anonymous
• My grandfather Walter Kingsbury was a member of the Bay Cities Lodge #563 in Santa Monica in 1925. I have a pin with a blue star and a man on a horse. would love to have information about it.
1/28/2010 4:54:46 PM by Anonymous
• The fuse factory was in Eagle River, not Eagle Harbor. The photograph is of the Eagle River dam and falls and the factory. I believe the notation on the card is in error.
1/29/2011 7:30:35 PM by Anonymous
• Atlantic Mill in Redridge
1/3/2012 4:16:20 PM by Anonymous
• Strike stay away don't be a scab
1/3/2013 1:05:46 PM by Anonymous
Name:Seth DePasqual
MTU Class of:2009
Tom Holden's comments hold true here. Both lifeboats are most likely from the Emperor. Although not expressed in the posted discussion, Holden spoke with the individual who towed the two boats from the wreck site (Canoe Rocks) to Todd Harbor. I believe the idea was to stage them for eventual return to the Emperor's owner, a Canadian outfit. The salvage never occurred and the vessels remained in place. I visited the beached lifeboat in 2009 and it is in similar condition to that presented in the photo. Of course there is more degradation due to weather and such, but it still recognizable as a lifeboat. I have not confirmed the presence of the second submerged vessel, but hope to do so via snorkel this coming summer. I have compared the lifeboat's construction to one now resting beside the Kamloops in perfect condition. The two are not alike in many ways giving further credence to the Emperor origin. Seth DePasqualCultural Resource ManagerIsle Royale National Park
1/3/2013 1:11:35 PM by Anonymous
• Web link for the full imagehttp://www.mindat.org/photo-233892.html
1/3/2013 9:46:30 AM by daanders
• This appears to be taken from the Houghton waterfront, looking north across Portage Lake toward Ripley. The industrial buildings in the distance on the left may be part of the Lake Superior Smelting Works, while the buildings on the left may be part of the Quincy Mining Company's smelting works.
1/30/2007 3:53:10 PM by HistoryBuff
• I believe this is Scrooge McDuck, the rich uncle of Donald. The monacle and money bags are dead giveaways.
1/30/2008 5:46:47 PM by Anonymous
• It is a weigh station of some sort, with a Fairbanks scale.
1/30/2011 12:25:05 PM by Anonymous
• Who started TOGO's?
1/30/2014 11:53:14 AM by Anonymous
• Interesting part of this photo is the fact they have built railroad track across the gap. They used barges to fill in and put blocking underneath to build up what they needed and laid track across. I am sure it was temporary, maybe to move equipment across the gap so they could continue operations.
1/30/2014 5:35:10 PM by yooper557
• This actual keg is in my mom's house in Oskar Bay. At the time that the Bosch plant closed, my parents were running Schmidt's Corner Bar. Somehow this keg ended up in their possession, and we still have it.
1/31/2007 2:20:13 PM by cherylruohonen
• Francis Jacker was also a lighthouse keeper. He was a keeper at Raspberry Island and Huron Island in the later 1800's. He resigned his duty from Huron Island to spend more time with his family. His home was located at Portage Entry.
1/31/2007 2:21:21 PM by ccollins
• It might be an assay office, where they'd need to precisely weigh amounts of ore samples and metals to determine (or assay) the grade of metal that a particular ore sample carried.
1/31/2011 11:16:28 AM by Anonymous
• It looks like this is a photo from behind (south) and east of the Houghton County Courthouse, looking across the canal toward Hancock and one of the shaft houses on Quincy hill.
1/4/2010 3:02:44 PM by Anonymous
• The building look like it could be the old Duke's barbar shop on the 200 block of hecla street in laurium?
1/5/2008 10:06:18 PM by Anonymous
• I dont think that this is a bank in Laurium?
1/5/2008 4:33:17 PM by Anonymous
• I was stationed Calumet from 11/85 - 11/86.I ran the Base Exchange.Great People and Duty.I hated the cold weather and snow,since from Florida,it was a steping stone to get back to California.
1/5/2010 2:53:35 PM by Anonymous
• North 5th street Calumet
1/6/2008 10:47:35 AM by Anonymous
• This photo is on the One hundred block of Tamarack street in Laurium
1/6/2008 2:09:40 PM by Anonymous
• I would believe that this is cleanup in the cemetary in Hancock on QuincySt. The current location of the The Church of the Resurrection.
1/6/2008 5:31:39 PM by Anonymous
• The floating dock" is a wood covered rock crib located alongside the channel entry into Eagle Harbor. There are two such cribs. This appears to be the east crib. The photo seems to have been taken from the west crib, 90 feet away.George Hite, Eagle Harbor"
1/6/2008 6:59:57 AM by Anonymous
• I do not believe that this is Laurium. Some of these buildings don't look like any that were hereDave Sprenger
1/6/2008 8:12:38 PM by Anonymous
• This image is of the Copper Harbor cemetery.
1/6/2009 2:22:04 PM by Anonymous
• The person in the middle is David (Jocko) Moyle, who is an avid Michigan Tech hockey fan and season ticket holder. The boy on the left is Norman Jon Audette, son of Norman B. Audette and Merle Moyle Audette. This photo was taken in 1958 on the Moyle potato farm just south of Laurium, Michigan.
1/6/2009 7:26:13 PM by Anonymous
• Appears to be the Phoenix West Vein in the foreground.
1/6/2012 4:25:26 PM by Anonymous
• This is the stamp mill at Lac La Belle, not the Smelter. The view is of the boiler house, with the hill on the right side of the photo.
1/7/2007 12:39:44 PM by jeremyjordan
• This is the smelter, which was never used, not the stamp mill.
1/7/2007 12:40:26 PM by jeremyjordan
• This is probably not the Palestra, and may actually be the Glaciadome in Mohawk. Compare to photos of the Palestra at Houghton County Historical Society online at http://www.marquetteironrangers.com/palestraold.htm and a very similar-looking photo of the Glaciadome online at http://www.pasty.com/discuss/messages/994/1550.html?MondayMay920050754pm
1/7/2008 1:03:28 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Is this photo is taken near the Quincy dispensary / doctor's residence? Note the white picket fence to and company housing. Looks like late fall as trees have few leaves on the them and there are many leaves on the ground.
1/7/2008 4:24:58 PM by Anonymous
• Are these what Yoopers would call choppers" ?"
1/7/2008 4:25:58 PM by Anonymous
• This photo was used extensively in the promotion of the Interior Ellis Island" web project at the MTU Archives (see http:\digarch.lib.mtu.edu). People who worked on the project came to know him affectionately as Guido, though there was no documented proof that he is actually Italian."
1/7/2008 4:28:09 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• I'm Bob, still alive and kicking. The Crusaders were a lot of fun. We had some idealistic ideas and did our best. We also tried to build some old time, real hot rods and weren't too successful there, either. Anyway, anyone wanting to contact me can do so at bobraduchel@aol.com. Cheers.
1/7/2008 6:49:52 PM by Anonymous
• Front Row L to R: Allen Cameron, sub quarterback; Roy Ellis, sub end; Gar Tamblyn, sub end; Carl Schwenn, sub tackle.Middle Row L to R: Kenneth Campbell, right tackle; Harold Pat" Rapson, right guard; Fred Guck, center; Elmer Nordstrom, left guard; Bob MacDonald, left tackle.Back Row L to R: Harold Dunn, right end; Stanley Curnow, quarterback; Dean MacDonald, right halfback; Robert "Bob" Gilmoor, Coach; Harvey Waters, Asst. Coach; Russell McLeod, fullback; Emmett Eter, Captain, left halfback; Ralph Medlyn, left end. [Document attached to photo.]"
1/7/2009 12:53:02 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Doc Berry told me this story in 1973 while I was in his office trying to get help in understanding chemistry; While at Harvard, Doc was a chemistry lab instructor and one day a premed student was injured during an experiment. Doc gave first aid to the student who later quit Harvard, joined the navy and then later took up acting. He became known to movie audiences as Jack Lemmon.
1/7/2009 9:14:42 PM by Anonymous
• St. Ignatius School, Sister's home to the left -- Mary Chopp
1/7/2012 9:12:25 PM by Anonymous
• Is it possible this is actually Pewabic Mine? The Pewabic shaft houses looked similar to old C & H stuctures, and the walkway on the peak of the big building is similar to that on the old Pewabic engine house in #MS015-MI-2-32.
1/7/2013 4:18:25 PM by Anonymous
• The monastery is not in Copper Harbor. It is located on M-26 between Eagle Harbor and Eagle River.
1/7/2016 10:38:16 AM by Anonymous
• Caption below photo reads:HOUGHTON'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATEWith widespread student support and the endorsement of the Michigan Tech LODE, genial John Davis - former Tech student and now proprietor of one of the more popular student hangouts - announced that he was a candidate for President of the United States, just two days before the election. No, he didn't win, but his method of campaigning proved most popular with his student customers. [MTU Alumnus Magazine - Nov/Dec 1968]
1/8/2010 12:58:45 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• I think this is the construction of the new C&H coal dock in Hubbell. The scaffolding is supporting the bridgework for the new coal unloader, the one that survived until the end of C&H operations. One of the concrete footings for the rail that the crane moved back and forth along the dock is right along the edge of the dock under construction. Most of the railroad track would eventually be removed as this would be where the coal was piled.
1/8/2011 12:35:49 PM by yooper557
• This picture was taken in front of the the Houghton Fire Station on Montezuma Ave. Chief McGuire and Jim Lowney were handing out reflector stickers for kids bikes. I lived 1/2 block away to the East.
1/8/2011 1:02:26 PM by Anonymous
Name:630J1
MTU Class of:
I think it is near Mill Mine Junction but it can not be the track coming from Atlantic Mine because the telegraph wires are on the wrong side of the track for that to be the case. Based upon the location of the telegraph lines plus the snowfence, I believe this photo is about a mile north of Mill Mine Junction on the Lakeshore Branch. You would still see the distant view of Quincy Hill off to the right. The lack of an extra pair of wires tells me the photo was taken sometime prior to 1911. -Brian R Juntikka-
1/8/2013 2:19:16 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
The U.S. Life-Saving Service, Portage Ship Canal lifeboat Chamption is at the dock/pier. In 1913 it was used to rescue the crew of the LC Waldo which is the freighter outside the canal. The watchtower is on the right. The boathouse and station are off photo to the right. Photographer is on the lighthouse property. This is the only photo I've seen of the metal pier/breakwater in service then.
1/8/2015 10:43:39 PM by Anonymous
• It is not clear from the online version of this photo, but it appears that the barber on the left may be African-American or black?
1/9/2008 3:41:31 PM by Anonymous
• I believe that this is taken from the northeast side of Calumet Pond. There are maps in the Archives' collections that indicate this bridge or causeway went across the middle of Calumet Pond. The buildings in the background are probably portions of the former Calumet & Hecla Mining Company's waterworks and original Calumet mill. The C&H waterworks were teh source for the name of Waterworks Street in Calumet. Behind the photographer would be the current road linking Centennial Heights to Red Jacket Shaft location.
1/9/2008 3:47:40 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This is a duplicate of scanned image MTU Neg 00188 -- though the other image has a wider view and includes more buildings.
1/9/2008 3:50:16 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This is the same as the scanned image Nara 42-99, although that image is more narrowly focused and the sign on the right is legible.
1/9/2008 3:51:06 PM by Anonymous
• This doesn't appear to be from the Copper Country.
1/9/2008 3:54:20 PM by Anonymous
• This does not seem likely to be in the Copper Country.
1/9/2008 3:56:12 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This may not be in Michigan's Copper Country.
1/9/2008 3:56:53 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This may not be in Michigan's Copper Country.
1/9/2008 3:57:14 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This may not be in Michigan's Copper Country.
1/9/2008 3:57:39 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This may not be in Michigan's Copper Country.
1/9/2008 3:58:08 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• I started at MCM&T in Sept of 54 and Graduated in June of 62. I took many rides between Chicago and Houghton. One memorial was returning for spring term 55 , I had taken my skis home after winter term and returned with my golf clubs. This started a lot of laughter from the locals at the station as the piles of snow where very high, but I was on the Tech coarse 2 weeks later.
1/9/2016 3:28:18 PM by Anonymous
• This is the No 1 Mill on Torch Lake, not the Stamp Mill on Portage Lake
10/1/2008 5:41:37 PM by Anonymous
• Our Saviors Lutheran Church on the right, First Apostolic Lutheran Church on the left. Churches are located on Adventure Street in Atlantic Mine.
10/1/2010 12:47:37 AM by Anonymous
• my grandfather, george smith was captain of a tug called the circle operating out of houghton sometime in the 1920s. he later died of injuries sustained in operating a tug on lake superior in the winter
10/1/2013 10:36:27 PM by Anonymous
• I believe that is the Champion mine hoist house the train is passing by. It is still there.
10/1/2014 12:58:06 PM by pquenzi
• Actually, in 1927, the buildings that are standing behind the ruins would be C&H's exploration of the Cliff Mine.
10/10/2009 8:00:00 PM by yooper557
• This is definitely Ahmeek 3&4.
10/10/2009 8:14:25 PM by Anonymous
Name:Emily Riippa
MTU Class of:
That looks like the Evergreen Cemetery in Eagle River to me. I'm not positive of that assessment, but the only place in the Keweenaw where I've seen that style of ornate fence surrounding plots is Eagle River. Of course, such fences may have been in other cemeteries at earlier times but have since been removed.
10/11/2011 11:36:08 PM by Anonymous
• Is this the snowplow that is now located across from the old Calumet Armory?
10/12/2007 2:20:29 PM by slancour
• There seem to be hoses coming from anonymous individuals.
10/12/2007 2:20:52 PM by mlkueber
• This building now (2007) houses Medical offices and looks very much the same as the photo.
10/12/2007 2:21:06 PM by djohnson
• Great pic - who are the people?
10/12/2007 2:22:45 PM by rbl7712
• This appears to be looking south on 5th street in Calumet toward the Catholic church.
10/12/2007 2:35:01 PM by mlkueber
• I have seen a larger version of this photo, I beleive this is actually an accident between two trolleys, the one on the left looks to be off the track, plus the two cars are way to close together to be passing each other. Also looking at the trolley poles which collect the electrical power to move the cars, show direction by which way it is facing, the left car would be coming at us, the middle away from us. There is also a cable between the car at right and the middle car, hard to see in this smaller photo, but you can see it just below the headlight of the middle car, looks like the car on the right was going to try and pull the middle car back.
10/12/2007 5:36:25 PM by yooper557
• This is most definitely the mills in Gay, the Mohawk and Wolverine, while under construction.
10/12/2007 5:39:51 PM by yooper557
• I don't think that's a church. From this angle, that looks like Brockway Mt. drive in the upper right corner connecting with M26. That would make the building that looks like a church, the Eagle Harbor 2 story schoolhouse built in 1872. It has a bell tower on it that sort of makes it look like a church.

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10/12/2011 12:57:54 PM by MForcier
• There is a panoramic sequence of five images which were taken from Swedetown – probably from the top of the water tower. The images from left to right are MTU Neg 00099, MTU Neg 00102, MTU Neg 00264, MTU Neg 00606, MTU Neg 00098. There is also an additional image, MS042-040-T-252, which is similar to the central image (MTU Neg 00264), but does not appear to be from that same day. There are also two photos, No Neg 2008-03-06-09 and MTU Neg 02483, which also appear to be taken from the Swedetown water tower but only show Calumet in the distance (and do not capture any significant part of Swedetown in the foreground).
10/14/2008 3:47:38 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• There is a panoramic sequence of five images which were taken from Swedetown – probably from the top of the water tower. The images from left to right are MTU Neg 00099, MTU Neg 00102, MTU Neg 00264, MTU Neg 00606, MTU Neg 00098. There is also an additional image, MS042-040-T-252, which is similar to the central image (MTU Neg 00264), but does not appear to be from that same day. There are also two photos, No Neg 2008-03-06-09 and MTU Neg 02483, which also appear to be taken from the Swedetown water tower but only show Calumet in the distance (and do not capture any significant part of Swedetown in the foreground).
10/14/2008 3:47:59 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• There is a panoramic sequence of five images which were taken from Swedetown – probably from the top of the water tower. The images from left to right are MTU Neg 00099, MTU Neg 00102, MTU Neg 00264, MTU Neg 00606, MTU Neg 00098. There is also an additional image, MS042-040-T-252, which is similar to the central image (MTU Neg 00264), but does not appear to be from that same day. There are also two photos, No Neg 2008-03-06-09 and MTU Neg 02483, which also appear to be taken from the Swedetown water tower but only show Calumet in the distance (and do not capture any significant part of Swedetown in the foreground).
10/14/2008 3:48:15 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• There is a panoramic sequence of five images which were taken from Swedetown – probably from the top of the water tower. The images from left to right are MTU Neg 00099, MTU Neg 00102, MTU Neg 00264, MTU Neg 00606, MTU Neg 00098. There is also an additional image, MS042-040-T-252, which is similar to the central image (MTU Neg 00264), but does not appear to be from that same day. There are also two photos, No Neg 2008-03-06-09 and MTU Neg 02483, which also appear to be taken from the Swedetown water tower but only show Calumet in the distance (and do not capture any significant part of Swedetown in the foreground).
10/14/2008 3:48:33 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• There is a panoramic sequence of five images which were taken from Swedetown – probably from the top of the water tower. The images from left to right are MTU Neg 00099, MTU Neg 00102, MTU Neg 00264, MTU Neg 00606, MTU Neg 00098. There is also an additional image, MS042-040-T-252, which is similar to the central image (MTU Neg 00264), but does not appear to be from that same day. There are also two photos, No Neg 2008-03-06-09 and MTU Neg 02483, which also appear to be taken from the Swedetown water tower but only show Calumet in the distance (and do not capture any significant part of Swedetown in the foreground).
10/14/2008 3:49:09 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• There is a panoramic sequence of five images which were taken from Swedetown – probably from the top of the water tower. The images from left to right are MTU Neg 00099, MTU Neg 00102, MTU Neg 00264, MTU Neg 00606, MTU Neg 00098. There is also an additional image, MS042-040-T-252, which is similar to the central image (MTU Neg 00264), but does not appear to be from that same day. There are also two photos, No Neg 2008-03-06-09 and MTU Neg 02483, which also appear to be taken from the Swedetown water tower but only show Calumet in the distance (and do not capture any significant part of Swedetown in the foreground).
10/14/2008 3:49:29 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• There is a panoramic sequence of five images which were taken from Swedetown – probably from the top of the water tower. The images from left to right are MTU Neg 00099, MTU Neg 00102, MTU Neg 00264, MTU Neg 00606, MTU Neg 00098. There is also an additional image, MS042-040-T-252, which is similar to the central image (MTU Neg 00264), but does not appear to be from that same day. There are also two photos, No Neg 2008-03-06-09 and MTU Neg 02483, which also appear to be taken from the Swedetown water tower but only show Calumet in the distance (and do not capture any significant part of Swedetown in the foreground).
10/14/2008 3:49:51 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• There is a panoramic sequence of five images which were taken from Swedetown – probably from the top of the water tower. The images from left to right are MTU Neg 00099, MTU Neg 00102, MTU Neg 00264, MTU Neg 00606, MTU Neg 00098. There is also an additional image, MS042-040-T-252, which is similar to the central image (MTU Neg 00264), but does not appear to be from that same day. There are also two photos, No Neg 2008-03-06-09 and MTU Neg 02483, which also appear to be taken from the Swedetown water tower but only show Calumet in the distance (and do not capture any significant part of Swedetown in the foreground).
10/14/2008 3:50:14 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Rectangular water tank behind locomotive.
10/14/2010 5:27:11 PM by Anonymous
Name:Paul A Hennes
MTU Class of:
Description should read Hennes Block" not "Henne's Block". 1936 photo of the Hennes Block is attached.

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10/14/2011 2:34:09 PM by Anonymous
• David Lewey, please contact me.. I am writing bios of surfmen and would like to learn more about your father. barbkoski@gmail.com
10/14/2012 9:23:29 PM by Anonymous
• Eagle Harbor Coast Guard made crew assist on this wreck.
10/14/2012 9:46:37 PM by Anonymous
• Eagle Harbor Coast Guard made an assist on this steamship.
10/14/2012 9:57:23 PM by Anonymous
• This does appear to be an engine house or shed, but not because of a lack of turntable. A curved back wall would indicate a roundhouse, whether it had 2 stalls or fifty.
10/14/2014 6:53:57 PM by Anonymous
• This is my number 1 favorite brand of gas station. I wish it was still possible to get free road maps again.
10/15/2011 6:15:50 PM by Trafficligh
• Fire truck driver Henry Verran who has been with the unit 20 years is shown here right of center trying a gas mask on little Jimmy Plowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mort Plowe Jr. of Houghton. The tots thought the exhibition and trip a thrill and came home well versed in the work and hazards of a fireman. A large reinforced wooden box was built on top of the fire truck by Leonard Shiroda, Asst. fire chief for the protection of the children. They were accompanied by their teachers, Miss Jean Medlyn and Mrs. Marie Garrity. The Houghton Fire Department has made this the seventh annual event of its kind. The truck in the background will shortly be equipped with two-way short wave radio tied in with the Houghton County sheriff's office. This, driver Verran says, will be the only fire truck in the whole U.P. so equipped. The radio will make it possible for the truck to go from one fire to another without returning to its station, and will permit it to be in touch with fire fighters in other areas. [Thursday, May 29, 1958 Daily Mining Gazette article.]
10/16/2007 1:01:40 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Students making the tour are Rita Kopsi, Alan Kananen, Tom Jacobson, Ray Ojala, John Tulppo, David Pietala, Frank Mason, Janet Walls, Judy Illikainen, Millie Norberg, Marian Rownisto, Judy Lannet, Judy Larson, Judy Teske, Arlene Korsman and Kay Linna. The chaperone accompanying the students was Mrs. Hilda Rounisto. The students came from their home town, near Bruce Crossing, in Ontonagon County by two station wagons driven by William Korsman and Ray Tulppo. [Tuesday, May 27, 1958 Daily Mining Gazette article.]
10/16/2007 1:11:07 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• These definitely are the Mohawk and Wolverine Stamp Mills in Gay and still under construction
10/16/2007 5:29:11 PM by yooper557
• The men in the photo worked for my Great Grandfather, Jacob Onkalo.He ran a logging company.
10/16/2011 1:09:47 PM by Anonymous
Name:Brenda Papke
MTU Class of:
My Great Grandfather, Jacob Onkalo would rent Mr. Ojala's sawmill to cut up the trees that were logged.
10/16/2011 1:16:06 PM by Anonymous
Name:Brenda Papke
MTU Class of:
Employees of Jacob Onkalo and I think the woman is a relative.
10/16/2011 1:19:17 PM by Anonymous
Name:Brenda Papke
MTU Class of:
Employee of Jacob Onkalo's Logging Company.
10/16/2011 1:20:31 PM by Anonymous
Name:Brenda Papke
MTU Class of:
Jacob Onkalo (holding rope) with some of his loggers.
10/16/2011 1:23:21 PM by Anonymous
Name:Brenda Papke
MTU Class of:
Loggers that worked for Jacob Onkalo.
10/16/2011 1:24:40 PM by Anonymous
Name:Brenda Papke
MTU Class of:
Jacob Onkalo's logging camp.
10/16/2011 1:25:48 PM by Anonymous
Name:Brenda Papke
MTU Class of:
Jacob Onkalo's logging camp.
10/16/2011 1:26:51 PM by Anonymous
Name:kathy
MTU Class of:
Wish the Main Street people would require the facades be rebuilt. A similar requirement was enacted in Brooklyn NY with many of the brownstones. They could build what they wanted as long as the original facades were preserved to maintain the street's atmosphere.
10/17/2010 12:06:54 AM by Anonymous
• This is the main light and Kepper's dwelling of the Range Lights at Copper Harbor. A Light was placed in front of the cupola directly above the door. The forward range light is on the shoreline at a lower level. By lining the upper and lower lights together, a ship could navigate safely into Copper Harbor between Hay's Point and the rocky shoals. The bridge is across Fanny Hooe Creek and was located about 50 meters north of the present concrete bridege erected in the 1920's. The abutments for this previous bridge still exist in the banks of the creek adjacent to Ft. Wilkins Historic State Park's Lighthouse Overlook". Attached picture (digital archives image MS042-058-999-W747B by J.T. Reeder) is taken from the southeast just inside the Fort's west gate. It is of the Range Light Dweller's House, the "new" concrete bridge over Fanny Hooe Creek, and the barn later moved 30 meters north and used as a dormitory for seasonal workers and archaeologists.

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10/17/2011 10:44:38 AM by Anonymous
• This is the main light and Kepper's dwelling of the Range Lights at Copper Harbor. A Light was placed in front of the cupola directly above the door. The forward range light is on the shoreline at a lower level. By lining the upper and lower lights together, a ship could navigate safely into Copper Harbor between Hay's Point and the rocky shoals. The bridge is across Fanny Hooe Creek and was located about 50 meters north of the present concrete bridege erected in the 1920's. The abutments for this previous bridge still exist in the banks of the creek adjacent to Ft. Wilkins Historic State Park's Lighthouse Overlook". Attached picture (digital archives image MS042-058-999-W747B by J.T. Reeder) is taken from the southeast just inside the Fort's west gate. It is of the Range Light Dweller's House, the "new" concrete bridge over Fanny Hooe Creek, and the barn later moved 30 meters north and used as a dormitory for seasonal workers and archaeologists.

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10/17/2011 10:44:38 AM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000,2008
Did anyone notice that they misspelled Copper Harbor, as Cooper Harbor?
10/17/2011 2:54:08 PM by Anonymous
• Go grandpa, you make us proud!
10/19/2007 5:04:01 PM by Anonymous
• Photo taken prior to the installation of the large Nordberg steam hoist for No. 3 shaft which was the deeper of the two shafts collared in the same building.
10/19/2009 1:46:26 PM by Anonymous
Name:George E. Wright
MTU Class of:1971
The first floor of this wing was the student health service. It had several sleeping rooms where students with non-surgical illnesses (such as mumps) were kept. Serious cases were sent to the local hospital. Minor cases (such a mononucleosis) were told to stay in their dorm rooms. The health staff did all they could to keep the students able to attend classes.
10/19/2009 8:19:13 PM by Anonymous
• This Nordberg hoist was eventually moved by C&H to #3 Ahmeek to allow hoisting from greater depths. The #3 shaft was significantly deeper than #4.
10/19/2009 8:35:07 PM by Anonymous
Name:George E. Wright
MTU Class of:1971
That was the studio of radio station WGGL, located in the tower of Sperr or (old) McNair hall. The first FCC licensed radio station at Michigan Tech. It initally used primarily equipment from various engineering departments (hence the MCMT microphone stand). This photgraph was taken circa 1969.
10/19/2009 8:39:58 PM by Anonymous
Name:George E. Wright
MTU Class of:1971 - BSME
I think that Dr. Winnekow deserves a tribute. She was my professor for two quarters of Thermodynamics (ME320 and ME321) in about 1968 and 1969. She was not only a fine engineer, but also an excellent teacher. I don't remember her ever telling a joke or being humorous. She is totally no-nonsence and one of the few professors I remember whenever I think back on my time at Michigan Tech. Adiabatic and isentropic, to say the least.
10/19/2009 8:54:26 PM by Anonymous
Name:Emily Riippa
MTU Class of:
It is actually the Riippa Sawmill"; your title is missing a "p." It was owned/operated by my grandfather John Riippa and his brother Arnold Riippa, who also owned a sawmill closer to Winona. "
10/19/2010 11:29:17 AM by Anonymous
• Why does this image come up under brotherhoods? The brotherhood of mudball? Is this a fraternity group playing? For that matter it could also be grouped under buildings - contruction (or some such) since the building in the background is under construction. - Jennifer
10/2/2008 8:52:18 AM by Anonymous
• Does anyone have any idea when this was taken? Would these buildings have existed in 1904?
10/2/2012 2:21:47 PM by ellen finnlay
• The Quincy Excelsior Band at Driving Park. Neat photo.
10/2/2014 12:39:16 AM by John Haeussler
• This is Reservation Street looking north toward Quincy Street in about 1880. The two men at the far left are standing in front of the First National Bank. Hancock's original fire hall is seen at the far right. The Quincy Mining Company's tramway ran behind the fire hall from the top of the hill down to their stamp mill on Portage Lake. MTU Neg 03696b is a similar view from about 30 years later.
10/2/2014 12:47:47 AM by John Haeussler
• This image of Reservation Street looking north is from the early 1910s. The Scott Hotel (opened in 1906) is seen with the second Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (dedicated in 1910) behind it. Peter Klasen's saloon, seen at the far left of the photo, first appeared in Polk's 1912 city directory. MTU Neg 04127 was taken from a similar location 30+ years earlier.
10/2/2014 12:57:51 AM by John Haeussler
• MS042-999-Z-616D shows children, all dressed similarly, parading south down Reservation Street in Hancock. Behind the Wright Block (Superior Savings Bank) are C.A. Silfven's photography studio and the North Star Temperance Hall. There are multiple versions of this image in the digital archives. MS042-999-Z-616I depicts a crowd gathered in front of Hancock City Hall. Several people are on the balcony, possibly being a municipal or political speech. The sign on the lower right of City Hall appears to read CONS BEST RUN.""
10/2/2014 8:44:35 PM by John Haeussler
• This photo was taken outside of the First Congregational Church on E Quincy Street in Hancock. John T. Reeder (#5 in the image) was a prolific photographer responsible for thousands of images now in the MTU Archives.
10/2/2014 8:49:50 PM by John Haeussler
• In his book, The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway," John Gaertner writes, 'Hancock was the last major point on the Mineral Range to receive a new depot. Contractor Archie Servile began work on the single-story 30'x76' structure, up on the bluff at Lakeview Station, on June 15, 1916. The "dark rose colored brick" building with cement trim had both ladies' and men's waiting rooms and "sanitary drinking fountains and lavatories." Hancock Agent Charles S. Jones and his clerks transferred over to the new depot on November 29, 1916.' I believe this image depicts the structure Gaertner describes, Hancock's second "Lakeview (or Lake View) Station" near what is now Depot Street."
10/2/2014 9:01:25 PM by John Haeussler
• Author Peter Morris makes a very good case that this photo was taken in 1870. However, the team name presumably does not refer to Hancock's First National Bank which wasn't organized until 1874. The players shown here are, front row: James Walls Trembath, second base; Archibald J. Scott, catcher; Thomas D. Meads, shortstop, captain; John T.V. Trembath, pitcher; and, Otto Charles Kunath, first base; back row: John Bittenbender, left field; Albert A. Brockway, center field; William Harry, third base; and, Joseph Johnson, right field.
10/2/2014 9:12:05 PM by John Haeussler
• The 1903-04 World Champion Portage Lakes are often considered the first professional hockey team. Pictured in the back row on the far right is Joseph Linder, a Hancock Central High (HCH) School sophomore at the time. A star player, Linder led HCH to its second consecutive state championship in 1904-05. He was deemed ineligible to compete during his senior year because he had already played varsity hockey for four seasons. Undaunted, Linder coached the 1905-06 HCH team to its third straight state title. The Hancock-born Linder was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975.
10/2/2014 9:21:52 PM by John Haeussler
• This wonderful aerial view of Hancock was taken in the 1940s or 1950s. The Norwegian Lutheran Free Church (dismantled in 1941) is not in the photo. Neither is Superior National Bank (erected in 1960).
10/2/2014 9:29:12 PM by John Haeussler
• Mike LaRonge's date range is accurate. St. Joseph's Hospital (1951), now the Jutila Center, is present while Super National Bank (1960) is not.
10/2/2014 9:40:54 PM by John Haeussler
• Dad, we're proud of you! You will always live in our hearts and memories!
10/20/2007 9:34:39 AM by Anonymous
• I think this photo maybe at Donken with the paasenger car that served as adepot there on the extreme right.
10/20/2011 3:11:43 PM by Anonymous
• This photo appears to have been taken at South Range looking south with the depot on the left.
10/20/2011 3:15:51 PM by Anonymous
• One of those boys could be Richard Olson. His class made maple syrup to sell, raising funds for their Senior trip. That would have ben Doelle's graduating class of (maybe) 1967.
10/20/2013 11:13:56 PM by Anonymous
• This a view from Swedetown looking to the southeast, the mine closest in view is South Hecla #9&10, then South Hecla #10, Osceola #6 and South Hecla #11. Osceola #13 is right behind South Hecla #9 & 10
10/21/2007 12:11:22 AM by yooper557
• I was station there from 1965-1967 I was a cook I remerber coing up the hill when it snows.
10/22/2008 2:47:51 PM by Anonymous
• Andy McCormick
10/22/2011 5:18:04 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
the date on my last comment should be July 13 not November.
10/22/2012 8:01:15 AM by Anonymous
Name:Scott Wendt
MTU Class of:1991
This is Phoenix...not Eagle River...Notice the three large buildings on the left...Church..school...church
10/22/2015 8:45:32 AM by Anonymous
• Here it lies on the ways at the Christy Corp. yard in Sturgeon Bay only moments before the launching. Workmen here are greasing the ways and making ready for the christening. The craft is not expected on Portage waters until the last week in August. It could be delivered here before that date except for the engines which are not yet delivered to the Christy firm. When they arrive, they will be lowered into a space left atop the craft. Then this opening will be sealed over and the funnel placed. All steel work is complete inside, but finishing and furnishings still have to be placed. [Daily Mining Gazette article, June 23, 1958, page 1]
10/23/2007 1:43:45 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• I want to learn more about the Finnish American Anti-Socialist League. My great-grandfather was a member in Hancock, and I have his original membership card.
10/23/2012 12:07:56 AM by Anonymous
• I want to learn more about the Finnish American Anti-Socialist League. My great-grandfather was a member in Hancock, and I have his original membership card.
10/23/2012 9:33:56 PM by Anonymous
Name:Kitty
MTU Class of:2018
This is a very haunting image. I adore it.
10/23/2015 12:27:49 PM by Anonymous
• Caboose is painted orange which is the color the Copper Range used for cars after about 1961.
10/23/2015 1:14:37 PM by Anonymous
• Milwaukee Road paint scheme at this time was orange and black. Location may be Sidnaw with train westbound for Ontonagon.
10/23/2015 1:23:52 PM by Anonymous
• Funky's was a really special spot. The vegetarian food was really great, and the hippie mood of this place was extremely comfortable. As the photo shows, the staff was young and hip - relaxed, but not lazy. Blue jeans, sneakers and hiking boots, cotton prints and plaid wool shirts were standard. They had a record player at the front of the place, and the staff didn't mind if you flipped through their stack of LPs and played music of your choice. It was the kind of place where if you needed a fork, you just went over to their service table and grabbed yourself a fork, instead of hailing the waiter to ask for one. I even remember wandering back into the kitchen and chatting with the cook as he dipped sliced banannas, carrots, and broccoli in tempura batter and deep fried my dinner. I loved to take friends to Funky's and introduce them to vegetarian food - no one ever came away unsatisfied. When my parents picked me up at graduation, I took them to Funky's. They liked the place so much they named their Detroit curling team after it, like a faux sponsor - Funky's Karma Kafe" "
10/24/2009 10:12:04 PM by Anonymous
Name:Mike Anleitner
MTU Class of:1972
The very first airplane ride I ever took was in September, 1968 on a North Central DC-3—as I left Garden City for my freshman year at Tech.As I recall, the trip took almost 6 hours in total, with stops in Lansing,Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Menominee, and Iron Mountain before reaching CMX.I sat in a portion of the plane where there were facing" seats, with twoseats facing forward and two facing rearward. All four of us sitting in the this area on one side of the aisle were freshmen headed to Houghton, and it was the very severe banked turn into the Menominee airport that I remember most from the trip.It was a very severe turn, and one the guys sitting with us got sick. He got it all in the paper bag, but the sound of him retching (and the smell) set off a chain reaction, as several other people on board also became sick almost immediately thereafter. I managed to keep everything down, but I did feel terrible for about five minutes. Maybe it was the sickly teal interior color scheme that made it worse!Just about 41 years--and at least 2 million frequent flyer miles later--I still remember that flight as well as almost any I've been on. And, it's the only time I've ever seen anyone use the paper bags for airsickness. Many of us miss "Herman" the Blue Goose, who graced the tail of North Centralplanes--and later was the symbol adopted by Republic when North Central and Southern merged. Look for www.hermantheduck.org for more about North Central's history.[comments posted about this photo in the Tech Alum electronic newsletter August 10, 2009. http://www.admin.mtu.edu/alumni/techalum/2008-09/09.08.10.php]"
10/24/2009 10:32:06 PM by Anonymous
• This is a Convair 580. My mother worked for United Airlines and I was able to get $5.00 standby tickets for North Central. I probably flew from Detroit to Houghton and back at least 10 times.Bond Milton
10/24/2009 10:33:03 PM by Anonymous
Name:Bruce G. Kelly
MTU Class of:1960, 1968, 1969
The plane shown is a convair. they were originally piston engine powered. north central had them refurbished and re-powered with allison (i believe) turbo props. there was a large increase in power, reduced fuel consumption and the interior came out like new.the DC3 was a tail dragger not tir-cycle landing gear. north central also used DC3's but i believe they were replaced by the convairs.
10/24/2009 10:34:16 PM by Anonymous
Name:Brian Burtka
MTU Class of:1983
In Jan of 1978 myself and Paul Crowley flew from Detroit Metro to Hancock Airport on what was then called the milk run" aboard the "Blue Goose". We must have stopped at least 6 times in route to Hancock. It was our high school senior year and the first flight both of us had been on. We both ended up at Mich Tech and graduated in spring of 1983."
10/24/2009 10:35:13 PM by Anonymous
Name:Larry Doyle
MTU Class of:1964
My DC-3 Blue Goose flight memory is that of a company paid interview trip in the spring of 1964, job hunting before graduation. On the return to Houghton, there were few passengers on the aircraft, and little for the lone stewardess to do. So I moseyed to the back of the plane to talk to her. Before landing, she gave me a whole handful of the little cigarette sample packs of the day. (I was an unenlightened smoker at the time.) Learning that Houghton was the end of the line for her, I asked if she'd like to go out that night. Unfortunately, she was already spoken forby the pilot.
10/24/2009 10:36:33 PM by Anonymous
Name:Larry Doyle
MTU Class of:1964
A not so fond memory of the Blue Goose was arriving late at night in a terrible lightning storm. There was only one or two others on the plane and we flew through turbulence, lightning and thunder in the total darkness.It was a lonely scary feeling.
10/24/2009 10:37:07 PM by Anonymous
Name:Larry Watson
MTU Class of:1951
A not so fond memory of the Blue Goose was arriving late at night in a terrible lightning storm. There was only one or two others on the plane and we flew through turbulence, lightning and thunder in the total darkness.It was a lonely scary feeling.
10/24/2009 10:37:57 PM by Anonymous
Name: Martin Vonk
MTU Class of:
I remember that old rattletrap well. I got on in GR to Green Bay and then where it went in the UP was inconsistent. Usually Marquette and then Calumet but not always. Always worried on a bad day if the pilot couldn't see the highway to navigate." I don't think they bothered to install electronics in the aircraft.It was a Convair. Don’t remember the model number. My recollection is they went to DC-9s just before they got bought up by Northwest. But, my memory is what it used to be and that could have already been Northwest when that happened. Just remembered I was very unhappy GR got dropped out of the route and I had to fly to MSP to get to Calumet.The last flight (as a student) was from Calumet to Milwaukee (via Green Bay) for a job interview in the spring of 74."
10/24/2009 10:40:30 PM by Anonymous
Name: Mel Visser
MTU Class of:
Gloria and I had our first flight on the Blue Goose in the winter of 58-59. It was the first leg of a trip to Elizabeth New Jersey to interview with Standard Oil of New Jersey at the invitation of Tech Alum Niel Hakola. I forget why we did not make our connection in Chicago and arrived late for the interview after an overnight red-eye on a TWA Electra.The trip home erased any memories of the trip out.At Iron Mountain, we made several attempts to find" the airport and runway in a snowstorm. The process seemed to involve repeated passes in the general area until the tower heard the plane and directed it closer. Another pass and the tower was spotted, and then the next pass and a little Kentucky Windage brought us near enough to the runway to land. We made two attempts from there and could not "find" Houghton or Marquette. In the wait for the third, a bus was offered as an option. I asked. "What are the chances of the plane getting to Houghton this time."The answer should have been expected. "It has to get to Houghton, it has to leave from there in the morning."We took the plane and it landed under a star filled winter sky. On the way home we again drove through near whiteout conditions."
10/24/2009 10:41:12 PM by Anonymous
Name: Debby Gregorius Kozol
MTU Class of:1984
I remember those planes early in my Tech experiences. I flew on the Blue Goose to Women In Engineering 1976 with a group of people speaking in a different language. I was surprised and wondered what type of area I was flying into. I realized a few days later they were traveling to report on the president of Finland's speech at the Hockey Center. My first trip to Tech was also memorable as a city girl from Pittsburgh. I wasn't concerned about traveling alone and making my connections through Chicago. I started to worry when we taxied towards the one room Hancock airport. I was relieved to find someone waiting for me.A few years later on my way back from Christmas break, one of the engines stopped from the extreme cold. I noted it and kept talking to my fellow passenger. I guess after a winter at Tech, you adjusted to whatever happened due to the weather!Needless to say the Blue Goose was instrumental in introducing me to my wonderful and challenging time at Tech! Thanks for the memories!
10/24/2009 10:42:53 PM by Anonymous
Name: Vicki Betts
MTU Class of:1979
I remember Funky's—wheat germ shakes, and the silverware kept in an old shoe bag hung on the wall—I only ate there ONCE, and remember, I was a LOCAL.I am sure the food was considered good for the times—bean sprout sandwiches just didn't cut it, when you could have a TOGO's number sixteen!
10/24/2009 10:45:15 PM by Anonymous
Name: Kris Krause
MTU Class of:1976
Funky's Karma Cafe had the BEST whole wheat crust, individual size tomato and mozzarella cheese pizza. It was a real treat to go down there for lunch or an early dinner. The food was excellent.
10/24/2009 10:46:14 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Gonser
MTU Class of:1958
When I arrived at Tech in 1954 to study physics and engineering, I was told by some upper-classmen to take every course I could that Dave taught. Over the ensuing 4 years I did just that, and those classes, and Dave Chimino's tutelage, formed the foundation of my thinking for the remainder of my scholastic studies and on into a 45-year career in R&D. I adopted and adapted his approach to any and all problems and was truly infected by his essential curiosity. I can not think of any individual professor or teacher whose influence loomed as large for me.I freely admit that I was a student who was perhaps more interested in the fun I could have than in the GPA I eventually achieved and the memberships in the honor societies I held. I hunted and fished, trekked through the Copper Country, played in the band and sang in the chorus, joined the amateur radio group, served on the Lode and Keewenawan staffs as photographer, and engaged in any number of non-varsity sports, including target shooting, gymnastics, and weightlifting. Oh, yes: I attended many a keg party. I tutored underclassmen in physics and other subjects and taught physics lab sessions. Dave seemed to know all of this, but with his undoubting encouragement I did learn to place a very high value on the understanding of the physical world that Tech was teaching me.By the time Tech threw me out of there in 1958, with a shiny, new honors degree in Engineering Physics, I knew that I had a long way to go to complete my education to my satisfaction. So I continued into grad school at MSU and U. of Minnesota. But I also knew that I had enjoyed a period of learning that was the equal of any other in the world. I had had a blast, I had associated with brilliant minds, and I had been taught and encouraged by the very best. What halcyon times!It is perhaps a small tribute to Dave Chimino that I attempt to use what I understand of his basic approach when I serve to teach and coach middle school children in the sciences. In my attempts to open the kids' minds I recall Dave's infectious curiosity and try to engender that same spirit in the kids. I must add that it works like a charm.
10/24/2009 10:54:01 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dave Elack
MTU Class of:1960
I remember him quite vividly as one of the most interesting and conscientious instructors I ever had. He taught (or attempted to teach) physics to us , I believe as Sophomores, and we were probably the biggest bunch of lunkheads he ever encountered.He gave an exam one day and, on the following day came back with the results. The average for the class was zero, based on the grading curve then in use. Mr. Chimino (I don't recall whether he was a PhD at that time)was so distressed by the results he was on the verge of tears and felt that it was failure on his part to properly convey the message to us. He beat himself up over the whole thing when it probably should have been the rest of us getting the beating. He was just one of many memorable professors or instructors that were around in those days, some of whom I only knew by reputation, such as Gilly" Boyd. I did get to experience Walter "Flunkenbush" first hand in Calculus, which I managed to survive somehow, although some of my friends were not so lucky. He was famous for writing equations on the blackboard with the right hand while erasing them with the left hand.Dr. Polkinghorne was then head of the Civil Department and in his lectures on the History of Architecture, which I found fascinating, he would frequently send erasers flying into the audience if he caught someone napping. He had an amazingly strong and accurate arm for an old man. There were others, some of whom made a less favorable impression, that I won't mention, but it may have been my own fault in some cases."
10/24/2009 10:55:00 PM by Anonymous
Name:Gary Rhoney
MTU Class of:1965
If I remember correctly when asked how he drew the perfect circles Professor Chimino said You keep the radius constant". I had him for Electricity and Magnetism. He gave a oral exam at the endof the year. Physics majors really got grilled; I was Applied Physics so we got off easier, he would coach us a little bit. We used to call him the "Great God Dave". One of the best teachers I ever had!"
10/24/2009 10:55:40 PM by Anonymous
Name:Merle Potter
MTU Class of:1958, 1961
Maybe some of you younger engineers don't recall the christening of the liftbridge between Houghton and Hancock.We lived in an upstairs just west of the bridge in Hancock and watched it during its construction. The night before the governor was to christen the bridge, most everyone in Houghton and Hancock was awakened by the long sounds of a ship's horn, or whatever that thing is called on a ship.The only person sleeping was the lift bridge operator who was supposed to sound the bridge's horn to alert the ship that all was well. With no response, the ship's captain put all engines in reverse.After some time, he threw out the anchors dragging up some communication cables between the two cities. Finally, the ship was grounded at the base of the bridge. The next morning the governor broke the champagne bottle on the bridge with a huge ore boot in attendance. No problems, except for a few communication cables and an embarrassed bridge authority. (It's been 50 years, so some of these details may be suspect.)
10/24/2009 10:57:04 PM by Anonymous
• Photo shows a stiff leg derrick that was used to hoist the blocks of stone and load the push car shown near the center of the photo. Note the cables used to secure the stiff leg of the derrick which could rotate 360 degrees while the other leg could be raised and lowered.
10/24/2015 12:44:59 PM by Anonymous
• This photograph was taken in the automotive laboratory in the Hotchkiss Engineering building. The lab first opened in 1931 when the Michigan College of Mining and Technology first began to offer specialized coursework in automotive engineering. It continued in use for nearly four decades until 1971 when the mechanical engineering department moved into the newly-constructed Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics building (MEEM).
10/25/2005 11:35:25 AM by enordber
• This photograph was taken in the automotive laboratory in the Hotchkiss Engineering building. The lab first opened in 1931 when the Michigan College of Mining and Technology first began to offer specialized coursework in automotive engineering. It continued in use for nearly four decades until 1971 when the mechanical engineering department moved into the newly-constructed Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics building (MEEM).
10/25/2005 11:38:54 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This photograph was taken in the automotive laboratory in the Hotchkiss Engineering building. The lab first opened in 1931 when the Michigan College of Mining and Technology first began to offer specialized coursework in automotive engineering. It continued in use for nearly four decades until 1971 when the mechanical engineering department moved into the newly-constructed Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics building (MEEM).
10/25/2005 11:39:05 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This photograph was taken in the automotive laboratory in the Hotchkiss Engineering building. The lab first opened in 1931 when the Michigan College of Mining and Technology first began to offer specialized coursework in automotive engineering. It continued in use for nearly four decades until 1971 when the mechanical engineering department moved into the newly-constructed Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics building (MEEM).
10/25/2005 11:39:18 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Photograph includes William Corkin (left) and Professor Richard Bayer (center). Corkin, MCMT class of 1954, was president of the 1953-54 student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
10/25/2005 11:41:30 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Photograph includes William Corkin (second from left) and Professor Richard Bayer (second from right). Corkin, MCMT class of 1954, was president of the 1953-54 student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
10/25/2005 11:42:10 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• William Corkin, MCMT class of 1954, was president of the 1953-54 student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
10/25/2005 11:45:31 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This really has nothing to do with the radio club; this image was mis-filed with other images of the radio club, but depicts students testing an automobile engine in the Automotive Laboratory in the Hotchkiss Engineering building. The lab first opened in 1931 when the Michigan College of Mining and Technology first began to offer specialized coursework in automotive engineering. It continued in use for nearly four decades until 1971 when the mechanical engineering department moved into the newly-constructed Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics building (MEEM).
10/25/2005 11:48:57 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• just surfed in & found a picture of my dad john jacobson! couldn't remember all the names so was nice to see that they were all listed. my brother, john jr. was also a member of this unit & was a cheif petty officer like my dad when he retired.
10/25/2012 12:59:21 AM by Anonymous
• any idea around what dates these pics were taken on? ball park date?
10/26/2010 12:57:45 PM by Anonymous
• Looking at this picture brings back a lot of memories for me. She too, is my great grandmother.
10/28/2010 10:50:40 PM by Anonymous
• Awarded annually to the graduating senior of Calumet High School to encourage a high standard of excellence in scholarship, athletics and sportsmanship.Some of the names on the trophy are: E. Lohela; R. Petaja; F. Eaton; C. Uitti; H. Barrons; A. Kariniemi; W. Kitti; D. Kariniemi; P. Kariniemi; A. Lohela; P. Frusti; J. Hirvela.Names on the lower portion of the trophy are unreadable.
10/30/2007 1:13:14 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The Asher party is from Sturgeon Bay while Leithold is from Green Bay. They left Rock Harbor by boat, took passage on the seaplane, landed at the Isle Royale Sands in Houghton, transferred to the landplane and landed in Sturgeon Bay, all within two hours. The seaplane is kept at Isle Royale Island for emergency runs and non-scheduled trips.
10/30/2007 1:17:41 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Manderfield of M-26, Atlantic Mine, she is shown here with her mother and driver Robert D. Haas of Houghton. She rode in this Oldsmobile specially decked and painted for the occasion and provided by Superior Chevrolet Sales of Houghton. State Senator Leo H. Roy and wife and daughter joined the group at St. Ignace Airport and together they attended the queen's banquet at Cheboygan. There were 83 queens present at the evening's festivities. Before returning to the Copper Country, the queen and her escort took a trip to the Canadian Soo where they found other groups of county queens on a similar tour of the countryside. Judy, her mother, and Mr. Haas returned here Saturday afternoon. [Tuesday, July 1, 1958 Daily Mining Gazette article.]
10/30/2007 1:24:09 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• i think the original photographer of these pictures was a lt. in the u.s.c.g. named Anthony Garza
10/31/2008 9:17:26 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Sullivan
MTU Class of:1974
The Village of Calumet issued condemnation proceedings on the vacant burned out building and the State of Michigan paid for the demolition.
10/31/2010 5:33:55 PM by Anonymous
Name:Richard Jilbert
MTU Class of:1958
Shoreline was owned by Thomas & Katherine Jilbert at the time of the photograph
10/31/2010 6:42:59 PM by Anonymous
• This is Swedetown
10/4/2007 9:08:04 PM by yooper557
• Osceola train station is in the middle left of this photo, I don't know where the Copper Falls Mill part comes in from the description, mines in the distant are probably south C&H mines
10/4/2007 9:14:49 PM by yooper557
• Looks more like an oops has occurred and they're saying, well, now what?""
10/4/2007 9:24:15 PM by yooper557
• I had a cursory look in our vertical file Churches - Atlantic Mine" and it appears that both churches were built in 1899. This would fit with the time frame that photographer J.W. Nara was active in the region. It appears that the photograph documents a date close to the completion of construction, as there are no plantings and a set of ladders are laying beside the church on the right. "
10/4/2012 10:17:19 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This is St. Cecelia Catholic Church in Hubbell. It's identifiable based on the doors with gothic arched transoms, the paneled wainscotting, the pews, and the distinctive trusses just barely visible in this photo. - Jeremiah Mason
10/5/2007 1:37:24 PM by Anonymous
• This may be 8th Street looking north from Oak Street. The building at the right of the frame looks like the Finnish hall and school building, with the open lots where the Morrison School was built later just beyond. That would make the steeple under construction the Finnish National Lutheran Church, and the little spire in front of it the Norwegian ME Church. - Jeremiah Mason
10/5/2007 1:46:13 PM by Anonymous
• This is Calumet Avenue in Calumet, looking north from Red Jacket Road. The first small church-like building at the left of the frame is the Jefferson School, on the site of the current Calumet High School. The church steeple seen farther up the street is that of the Calumet ME Church at Calumet Avenue and Church Street. - Jeremiah Mason
10/5/2007 2:17:46 PM by Anonymous
• The Krackerbarrel sure did serve pizza. I believe it opened in about 1962 and was one of the few places in town which served pizza. There was Gino's’s in Hancock and also the Venice Café. Later the Ambassador started serving pizza. The Krackerbarrel was right behind the Union and the pizza was carryout. --Ken Kok, Michigan Tech Class of 1964
10/6/2008 3:16:35 PM by Anonymous
• Long before it was the 'Krackerbarrel it was originally Vivians' store which was a neighborhood grocery store owned by Charles (I believe) Vivian who lived on the east side of Clark St. one house "up" from Houghton Ave. The store faced Houghton Ave and was at the bottom of Blanche St. Right across the street was a soda fountain known as George's or the Miners Hangout. It was where MUB sits today. -- Douglass Seeber, Michigan Tech Class of 1954"
10/6/2008 3:17:43 PM by Anonymous
• I remember the store well. I lived up the hill on the top of Hubbell St. and would stop there to stock up on treats. I recall they served soft serve ice cream there - that was a real treat. I believe it was owned by the Johnson family. Their daughter, Ramona, went to Houghton High School with me. Thanks for the memory! Mary (Beeby) Eastman
10/6/2008 3:18:21 PM by Anonymous
• Was owned by a Johnson (his son graduated from Tech). Was Babe's Market prior to that; don't have enough time here to tell the stories about that! Mike [no last name given], Michigan Tech Class of 1968
10/6/2008 3:19:14 PM by Anonymous
• The Krackerbarrel was located just across the street from the Memorial Union. When I arrived here in 1977 it was my daily 10 AM stop for the Chicago tribune. Before the internet, it was my only way to keep up on sports from back home, being stuck here in Packer, Lion, Tiger and Brewer land. ;-) -- Bob Gilreath, Michigan Tech Class of 1981
10/6/2008 3:20:20 PM by Anonymous
• Sure. I remember the krackerbarrel. I used to buy the Chicago Tribune there if I remember correctly. I went to Tech from 69-73. I wasn't sure anything was operating in there by the time I graduated? Wasn't right behind the Student Memorial bldg. -- Tom Permoda
10/6/2008 3:20:54 PM by Anonymous
• I believe I do remember the Krackerbarrel, if it was on E Houghton Ave (I had a room at 1517 E Houghton Ave). My recollection is that they sold terrible warmed-up frozen pizzas to take-out. My friends and I went there, though, for small cans of sauerkraut juice (UGH!). It was kind of a manly challenge to drink the stuff. I also remember that when the street was covered with packed snow (a lot of the time), I would drive my ’36 Chevy, packed with said friends, over to the Krackerbarrel. I’d come along on the opposite side of the street, gas it, and do a sliding U-turn up to the curb in front of the store. I don’t know why, but the proprietor never complained, although it must have looked like we were coming in through the front window.-- Denis Hayner, BSME, Michigan Tech Class of 1961
10/6/2008 3:22:02 PM by Anonymous
• Gone - but not before the record 78-79 snowfall year. they always had the totals on the front window of the Krackerbarrel - we could watch it from the Union. Sure missed it - and almost jumped into the demolition residue and stole the Mountain Dew sign, under tons of rubble. And to quote Joan Baez - ....then they put up a parking lot". -- Mike Wank"
10/6/2008 3:22:38 PM by Anonymous
• Alternative spelling is Miscowabik""
10/6/2009 9:01:25 AM by Anonymous
• Alternative spelling is Miscowaubik.""
10/6/2009 9:01:57 AM by Anonymous
• Alternative spelling is Miscowaubik.""
10/6/2009 9:02:06 AM by Anonymous
• Alternative spelling is Miscowaubik.""
10/6/2009 9:02:16 AM by Anonymous
• The School of Business and Engineering Administration at Michigan Technological University has approximately five hundred full-time students. Classes are small, and the student-faculty ratio is such that each student can receive as much personal attention as desired.Undergraduate business students can specialize in one or more of the following areas: Accounting, Economics, General Business, Industrial Management, Industrial Relations, Marketing, Management Sciences and Prelaw.The School of Business Curriculum is constantly updated to keep pace with the changing business world, this includes new courses in computer programming and business data processing to meet the growing demands of our computerized society. Another advantage of the School of Business is its association with the Michigan Tech Bureau of Industrial Development. The Bureau engages in research and development programs aimed at attracing business and industry to the Upper Peninsula. Students and faculty are involved in these and other research projects.The undergraduate business program is designed to prepare students for positions in business, government, and other institutions by providing students with the opportunity to specialized in the last two years of study.The department offers a Master of Science degree in Business Administration for students with a non-business undergraduate degree and a fifth-year Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Administration to students who have a four-B.S. degree in engineering science.The School of Business and Engineering Administration follows the standards set by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. These standards are compatible with a quality business program and help to make the school another fine attribute to MTU. (Copy by Linda James) [Caption above photos. 1984 Keweenawan, page 191]
10/6/2009 9:49:36 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Kappa Sigma Iota Accounting Club was organized on the Michigan Tech campus in 1956. The organization supplements class work by practical observations and experiences. KSI takes field trips to industries and public accounting firms as well as obtaining speakers who are members of the accounting profession. [Caption beside photo. 1986 Keweenawan, page 104]
10/6/2009 9:52:32 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Kappa Sigma Iota is the MTU Accounting Club which was formed in 1957 to recognize and help those students who seek to further their professional interest outside of the classroom. Members are given the opportunity to meet authorities in the field of accounting and prospective employers through on campus speakers and an annual field trip. The club offers a well rounded program conducive to professional growth. [Caption below photos. 1990 Keweenawan, page 96]
10/6/2009 9:57:57 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• By RequestFebruary 16, 1912Mr. Knox, Assistant Manager of C H Co. De. Sir - I understand you are a Reasonabyle man to talk to and that is the reason I rite you those few lines. you know as well as I can tell you that the high cost of living is making it very hard for the poor man to live and we men that is working on top of the surface have the hardest of all because we get the smalles pay. it is imposable for a man and a family to live on 173 cents a day. Therefore I ask you to raise our pay to 2 dollars a day so we can have a chance to live. we have to pay the same price for what we eat as the man who gets 65 or 70 dollars and it takes all they get in good many familys. by the time we pay 6 or 7 dollars for rent 150 for doctor and club [?] there is very little left out of 45 dollors and this as been a hard winter for the poor man. hoping you will grant us or request and if we cant get it for this month howabout the first of March. Something must be done men cant work on empty stomachs for 10 long hours a day. I take this way in asking because I dont want to see any trouble I believe in asking in a fair way. I dont see that I have done any thing or said anything on this letter to cause any hard feelings. The bible says ask and you shall receive but I dont know how it will be in this case. hoping you will do your best for us. Yours truly - A Surface Man under your employment. [Original letter from Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Collection - Box 209 Folder 41.]
10/6/2010 10:30:47 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:J Mailley Todd
MTU Class of:
Senator Leo Roy was my great uncle. I'd love to share family tree info. Jlmailley@yahoo.com
10/6/2010 4:08:58 PM by Anonymous
• Jonathan Ehlers
10/6/2011 4:48:28 PM by Anonymous
• The large school structure in the top center is the old Washington school which was constructed in 1875 and burned down in the late 1920's. The smaller wooden structure to its left is the even older Jefferson school. Note the fire escapes on both buildings. The shaft-house on the left of the photo is the Hecla number 2.
10/6/2016 ; 11:16:27AM by Anonymous
• This picture is of the actual moment that the larger of the two stacks supporting the Superior boiler house was being taken down by explosives. This was during WW2.
10/6/2016 ; 11:45:12AM by Anonymous
• This photo was taken in front of St. John the Baptist Croatian Catholic Church on 7th Street in Calumet, looking north toward the Norwegian Lutheran Church at the corner of 7th and Elm. - Jeremiah Mason
10/9/2008 3:38:29 PM by Anonymous
• This is the first Italian Hall on 7th Street in Red Jacket (Calumet), which burned in 1908. The infamous Italian Hall disaster occurred five years later in the brick building which replaced it. - Jeremiah Mason
10/9/2008 3:45:38 PM by Anonymous
• This is commonly known as the Finnish Hall, on 8th Street in Red Jacket (Calumet). The steeple visible in the background is that of St. Anthony's Polish Catholic Church on 7th Street. - Jeremiah Mason
10/9/2008 3:48:40 PM by Anonymous
• I like this guy. Very East German Soviet proletariat. Reminds me of Devo or Kraftwerks from the 1980s.
10/9/2009 3:32:38 PM by Anonymous
• If you compare this photo with others similar to it, it becomes apparent that this one is reversed.
11/1/2007 9:06:01 PM by cpomazal
• The church with the steeple on the far left side of the photo is the Methodist church.
11/1/2008 8:20:06 PM by Anonymous
• Someone might try searching for this as YMCA or as the Young Men's Christian Association.
11/1/2009 8:19:29 PM by Anonymous
• Someone might try searching for this as YMCA or as the Young Men's Christian Association.
11/1/2009 8:19:44 PM by Anonymous
• Someone might try searching for this as YMCA or as the Young Men's Christian Association.
11/1/2009 8:20:00 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Calumet Stamp Mill Jack Deo
11/11/2009 11:47:14 AM by Anonymous
• Apparenly it is the Obenhoff School. This photo had to have been taken sometime prior to 1923 because by then, area farmers built a telephone line and it ran right past the school in front of the building. The Brinkman photo shows no telephone line and so the photo must have been taken prior to the summer of 1923. I am including a photo the shows the Obenhoff School in late November of 1953. Rudy and Helen Kemppainen lived right across the road from the school. David Kemppainen bagged a buck that season and you can see the school behind him in the photo. It appears to be the same structure as the one in the Brinkman photo.RegardsBrian R Juntikka

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11/11/2010 9:10:41 AM by Anonymous
Name:D. Kezele
MTU Class of:
This is a pic. of my father-in-law. The family was so happy to get this photo, and the grandchildren were thrilled to see a photo of Papa". Thanks MTU for your hard work!"
11/11/2011 9:15:45 AM by Anonymous
• The only barn in the Copper Country with a 40 foot unsupported roof span is being built on the Kallio farm near Calumet. Russell and Arnold Kallio plan to use this barn for the storage of machinery, as a small machine shop and as a repair shop.The contractor, Will Milford, says that this barn is unique because the biggest unsupported span that usually can be built is from 32 to 34 feet wide.Michigan State University supplied the plans for the building including the unusual design of the truss. Two by eights are used in the roof support and the rest of the truss is composed of two by fours.The outside shape of the roof truss is normal, but the inside supports are in the shape of a W" with the center hump fastened at the top center of the truss.The roof and the sides are of galvanized metal sheeting. There are sections of fiberglas in the roof for light. A cement floor is now being laid in the machine shop section of the barn.A feature of the wall construction is the use poles for the main standards. Although these have been used in the construction of other barns in the Copper Country their unusuality comes from the fact that they are sunk four and a half feet into the ground in order to support the wide span of the roof. [Daily Mining Gazette article - Friday, September 26, 1958, page 9.] "
11/12/2007 10:22:54 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The Upper Peninsula Power Co., according to J. H. Warden, president, is one of eight electric utility companies in the United States selected by the International Cooperation Administration in Washington, D.C. to participate in an on-the-job training program for a group of 19 young engineers and operators from the Korean electric power industry. The purpose of the project, Mr. Warden states, is to acquaint these young men with the various methods and procedures being used by the American power industry, so that upon their return to Korea the knowledge acquired here may be applied to improve the operations of their home industry. [Daily Mining Gazette Article, Saturday, September 6, 1958, Green Sheet]
11/13/2007 12:58:00 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• I think Douglass Houghton spelled his first name with two S's.
11/13/2007 8:29:22 AM by Anonymous
• Max Schwartz, a specialist on muzzle loading firearms, is in the Copper Country enjoying the Keweenaw scenery and imitating the activities of the typical soldiers dispatched to Fort Wilkins in 1884.The Detroit post office supervisor has with him a collection of muzzle loaders which he will demonstrate on Sunday afternoon in front of the Fort museum. He will fire pellets at a spot across Lake Fanny Hooe. He has brought Whitneyville, Remington and Zouve firearms with him.Mr. Schwartz will be roaming through the fort in his regular Civil War regalia. He will carry cap and ball pistols, original Rebellion leathergoods containers and the small eyeglasses in vogue in Civil War days.A member of the Fifth Michigan Infantry, Schwartz is a keen student of the war between the states. He is secretary of the Wynandotte Muzzle Loader Club, and a writer and lecturer of note. His articles have appeared in many publications dealing with firearms. He owns 30 guns and has a raft of material on Civil War topics," he says. [Daily Mining Gazette Article Wednesday, September 17, 1958, pg. 2]"
11/13/2007 8:34:54 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:Renee
MTU Class of:
I think the building across the street is the bandstand. Look at the Sanborn maps from around 1900 or 1907, it's on there.
11/13/2010 1:26:38 PM by Anonymous
• A Spanish copper mining team, concerned with management and organization questions, toured the Calumet Division of Calumet and Hecla Inc., in an effort to secure help for their problems. From left first row are: Antonio Z. Enciondo, administrative chief San Telmo Iberica Mine, Bilboa; Francisco Marfany, works manager, Industries Arsenicales Reunidas, La Coruna; R. C. DeNault, safety inspector of Calumet division; J. R. Gareau, safety manager of Calumet Division; Francisco Torres-Quevedo, mine inspector, San Telmo Iberica Minera, S. A. Huleva; Alberto de la Cruz, interpreter; John Sitar, safety inspector, Calumet division, and Ceferino Mateo, technical director, Metalicas Mines, San Agustin. Standing from left are Manuel Garrido, assistant manager Compania Espanola de Minas de Rio Tinto, S. A. Huelvia; Carlos Orti (team leader), mining engineer, Geological Survey of Spain, Madrid; Jose-Maria Fernandez, chief, Ore Dressing Laboratory, Geological Institute of Spain, Madrid; Bradford J. Johnson, Processes and Techniques Studies Branch Office of Industrial Resources, ICA, Washington D. C.; Juan Rodriguez De Rivas, mining engineer, Mines de Herrerias, S. A. Huelva; John Lasio mining superintendent, Calumet Division; Fernando Aldolfo Toca, chief metallurgical engineer, Compania Espanola de Minas de Rio Tinto, S. A., president. National Sqndicate of Metals, Huelva; Jose Merino, technical director. Commercial Quimico Metalurgica, S. A. (Calchopyrites), Bilboa; Patricio Ruedas, interpreter, and Garfield Maynard, underground foreman at Allouez mine, Calumet division. [Daily Mining Gazette Article, Thursday, August 28, 1958 pg. 2]
11/14/2007 2:57:24 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• From Chuck Pomozal: This is H&C #34 on the trestle at Hungarian Falls.""
11/14/2008 11:09:07 AM by Anonymous
• This is similar to MTU Neg 00674, except that this photo was taken in winter.
11/14/2008 11:10:08 AM by Anonymous
• This is similar to MTU Neg 00676, except that photo was taken in winter. This is a trestle over Hungarian Creek.
11/14/2008 11:10:59 AM by Anonymous
• This looks like it could be the north side of Church Street between Millionaire St. and Store Street just south of Raymbaultown. Four of the houses are still there. The location of Osceola Shaft #1 is about 200 yards to the left.
11/14/2008 4:33:04 PM by jegriebe
• There was a road just south of and paralleling Millionaire St. in Osceola named Bush Street which was the company-built and owned housing for Osceola Mine. The Sanford maps identify 22 log miner's dwellings on the map of the mine. Millionaire Street was the street where people owned their own houses, and the folks on Bush St. gave it that name because they must be millionaires"."
11/14/2008 4:49:19 PM by jegriebe
• The resisted arrest" portion of the story is not true. The man was murdered. The men involved in the shooting were not police and Putrich had not broken any laws. How could that be described as an "arrest"? It is sad that fable continues to be promoted."
11/14/2009 7:28:29 AM by Anonymous
• The most likely purpose of this photo was to show the view of the interior as seen by Cooper, the gunman who entered the house during the shooting. While some writers dispute this fact, there were a dozen or so witnesses who testified that one gunman entered the house and fired his gun several times from the shed into the other rooms of the house.
11/14/2009 7:39:33 AM by Anonymous
• 17" is the Putrich boarding house. The arrow to the house on the other side of the street most likely was placed there to identify the house of Lisa Mutka, a Finnish woman who witnessed the shooting from across the street and testified at later hearings about what she saw."
11/14/2009 7:44:18 AM by Anonymous
• This diagram not only shows bullet locations, it shows positions of the gunmen during the shooting. Notice that 3" is standing in the kitchen, shooting into the living room. Although this fact is disputed by some, it is supported by the overwhelming evidence."
11/14/2009 7:46:49 AM by Anonymous
• Slav was 14 at the time of the shooting. It's a minor point but easily verifiable on Ancestry.com and others.
11/14/2009 7:58:02 AM by Anonymous
• This is the mill from the Delaware/Conlomerate/Pennsylvania mines. Hell Town (Wyoming) was near Delaware.
11/14/2010 6:58:46 PM by Anonymous
• Great pics but you have things labeled as Lac La Belle" and as "Lac Labelle". Need to clean this up."
11/14/2010 7:00:06 PM by Anonymous
• Amygdaloid is spelled incorrectly
11/14/2010 7:04:12 PM by Anonymous
• This does not look like Delaware. Hills and mine buildings seem wrong. Cliff, Central or ???
11/14/2010 7:08:10 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Douglass house.
11/14/2010 8:14:29 PM by Anonymous
• He appears to be reading Tyomies newspaper, which was considered by many to be a left-wing socialist publication.
11/14/2011 2:35:37 PM by Anonymous
• the slide is scanned backwards
11/14/2011 4:34:23 PM by Anonymous
Name:Debbie Aubin
MTU Class of:
This building was the main office of the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company. Across the street, was the Calumet & Hecla Library, constructed of the same rock. Both the buildings were purchased by the Keweenaw National Historical Park in the late 1990's. The C & H main office is now the KNHP Calumet Headquarters and the C & H Library is now the KHNP Archives.
11/14/2014 3:18:49 PM by Anonymous
Name:Debbie Aubin
MTU Class of:
This building was the C & Library but was purchased by the Keweenaw Hational Historical Park in the late 1990's and now house's their archives.
11/14/2014 3:20:32 PM by Anonymous
• This view is looking down on the Cliff Mine ruins
11/15/2008 6:15:46 PM by Anonymous
• This could possibly be in Hubbell, they could be burnng insulation off cables and other materials to recover the copper, so it could be reused. The railroad car sitting here would have been how the material arrived.This would definitely give off the heavy black smoke. This may have been during World War II
11/15/2008 7:14:47 PM by Anonymous
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11/16/2005 10:39:26 AM by enordber
• Kay Masters of Hancock says this is more likely to be the old Hancock Catholic cemetery where the Church of the Resurrection is now. The buildings in the background do seem like the ones near the intersection of Quincy Street and Michigan in West Hancock.
11/16/2006 10:12:55 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Yes its the Russell snowplow.
11/16/2010 1:53:58 PM by Anonymous
• I live with in a stone's throw of the tower now.
11/16/2010 7:50:43 PM by Anonymous
• I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL HERE IN THE 80S-90S
11/16/2013 9:34:12 AM by Anonymous
• It looks a lot like the shaft house in Painesdale MI... still standing today.
11/16/2013 9:49:55 AM by Anonymous
• Til the day Amp Bessone died (almost 60 years later) he never got over this accident. He always felt responsible for all his boys and felt he didn't protect these two young men. It haunted him his entire life.
11/16/2014 5:29:38 AM by Anonymous
• This is Quincy's #1 & 2 mills in Mason, the photo appears to have been taken shortly after mill #2 was built (1900). The railroad track in the foreground would be the Quincy and Torch Lake RR. According to the Book Old Reliable", the second mill was openned in 1900. The Copper Range Railroad built through this area around 1902, their track was depressed below the tracks entering the mills. The book also has a map of this area done in 1902, the railroad track layout is completely changed, along with the Copper Range being there. So this photo appears to have been taken in between 1899-1902. Can't really tell if Mill #2 is operational, but there is smoke coming out of the stack, not heavy like the closer mill though. Also when zooming in close, there is a covered water tank behind mill #2 like one at the Quincy Railroad enginehouse at the mine site."
11/17/2007 12:06:57 PM by yooper557
• The correct spelling of the street name should be Shelden. According to The Daily Mining Gazette: Ransom Shelden platted the village of Houghton, and was, as author Larry Lankton notes in "Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape in the Lake Superior Copper Mines 1840-1875," an important pioneer who formed a merchant class on the mining frontier and brought some of the earliest stores to Houghton. Other sources list Shelden as the first postmaster, one of the village of Houghton's first trustees, and the owner of sawmills and an extensive estate in the area." From "Historically Speaking" by Jane Nordberg, The Daily Mining Gazette, November 15, 2008. http://www.mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/502640.html"
11/17/2008 11:52:42 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The correct spelling of the street name should be Shelden. According to The Daily Mining Gazette: Ransom Shelden platted the village of Houghton, and was, as author Larry Lankton notes in "Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape in the Lake Superior Copper Mines 1840-1875," an important pioneer who formed a merchant class on the mining frontier and brought some of the earliest stores to Houghton. Other sources list Shelden as the first postmaster, one of the village of Houghton's first trustees, and the owner of sawmills and an extensive estate in the area." From "Historically Speaking" by Jane Nordberg, The Daily Mining Gazette, November 15, 2008. http://www.mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/502640.html"
11/17/2008 11:52:56 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The correct spelling of the street name should be Shelden. According to The Daily Mining Gazette: Ransom Shelden platted the village of Houghton, and was, as author Larry Lankton notes in "Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape in the Lake Superior Copper Mines 1840-1875," an important pioneer who formed a merchant class on the mining frontier and brought some of the earliest stores to Houghton. Other sources list Shelden as the first postmaster, one of the village of Houghton's first trustees, and the owner of sawmills and an extensive estate in the area." From "Historically Speaking" by Jane Nordberg, The Daily Mining Gazette, November 15, 2008. http://www.mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/502640.html"
11/17/2008 11:53:06 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• I remember the incident quite well. As a matter of fact, I was in Houghton just last month with my new wife, and while there I took her on a tour of Douglas Houghton Hall to show her the room I lived in 57 years ago. Then, while standing in the exact same spot as depicted in the photograph, I proceeded to tell her about the night a group of students drove Gunther Frankenstein's Jeep up the stairs, through the door, and in to the hallway.Her reaction was, An unlikely tale if I ever heard one. Gunther Frankenstein indeed. You don't actually expect me to believe such a story do you? I suppose the next thing you are going to tell me is that Dr. Frankenstein then looked at the Jeep and shouted 'It's alive! It's alive!' ".As well as I remember the incident, I don't remember anyone taking a picture. Nevertheless, is that me - the first person against the wall - to Gunther's immediate left? When I first saw the picture in the Alumni Newsletter I thought to myself, "That looks like what I think I used to look like 60 years ago." Whether or not it is me - or rather whether or not it is an image of what I think I looked like way back then - I can't say for certain, and it really doesn't matter. The fact that I still have a clear recollection of just about everything that occurred during my days at Tech is good enough for me. Now, if only I could remember what happened yesterday. -- Donald Johnson, Michigan Tech Class of 1953"
11/17/2008 1:36:18 PM by Anonymous
• Think I may have to eat crow on the comment about the above photo being the Quincy #1 and #2 mills.But according to the new book Images of Rail, Copper Country Rail, this is the Osceola and Tamarack Mills with the Hancock and Calumet Railroad.Would still be pre 1902 as I don't see any trace of the Copper Range Railroad yet, it would be off to the left of the Hancock and Calumet
11/17/2008 8:03:34 PM by Anonymous
• I've been told that this is my Grandfather, John Klobuchar. Former MTU employee, Ann Murvich told me.
11/17/2012 1:57:44 AM by Anonymous
• This is the former St. Cecilia Church in Hubbell. I was pastor of there for eight years.
11/17/2012 9:32:43 AM by Anonymous
• I believe the mines are the Osceola #4 on the right and the #3 on the left. The size of the #4 rock house and the presence of a trestle makes me wonder if #3 did not have a rock house. This was the case at the old Iroquois (South Kearsarge) mines where #2 hauled rock to #1 via trestle. Similarly #1 Iroquois was big like this #4. Date is maybe the mid 1880's?
11/18/2009 4:17:17 PM by dalongpre
• This is the 200 block of Cliff Street in Mohawk.
11/18/2010 2:13:56 PM by Anonymous
• Thom Holden of Duluth is an expert on Kamloops. He has convinced me (at least 98%) that this is _not_ a photo of Kamloops but of the Emperor. Back of the print has information indicating the source as Gestel." Mr. Bernie Gestel was a park ranger at Isle Royale - He is now about 80+ - so would have been born after the Kamloops sank. He would likely have seen the 1947 lifeboat of the Emperor. Several other photos apparently exist where people thought they had the Kamloops lifeboat but did not.There is no snow or ice in the photo there was lots of ice at the end of May when the K's Lifeboat was found according to the Fort William Newspaper.There are well formed deciduous leaves indicating a date beyond June 1.Here is what Holden indicated: "Gestel would have taken the photo you have in the 1950s or 1960s. I'm quite convinced the Michigan Tech image is one of the Emperor lifeboats mistakenly identified as Kamloops by Bernie Gestel. It shows many years of weathering. It is not from 1928. The second lifeboat from the Kamloops is on the bottom adjacent to the wreck."-- Scott Cameron, Owen Sound, Ontario"
11/18/2011 11:44:53 AM by Anonymous
• The physical photographic print in the Chynoweth Collection. On the back is the following inscription: Kamloops" Lifeboat in "Todd Harbor." [written with what appears to be a blue ballpoint pen]and, separately:From Gestel [written in pencil]I'm not sure what the two different writing might mean, and I'm puzzled as to why Kamloops and Todd Harbor are written in quotation marks. Could this mean that the person penning the lines (likely Ben Chynoweth himself) was indicating to himself that he had heard this from someone, maybe even the mysterious Gestel?The print is on thin paper, measures 4" x 4" and has a cut scalloped edge. Talking with Beth Russell, another archivist here at Tech, neither of us think the print dates to before 1947, rather it appears to be of a later vintage. But then again neither of us are photographic process historians.From my examiniation, it appears to be an original print. We are often able to tell we are handling a second-generation copy print shot from some other original; that doesn't appear to be the case, but who knows."
11/18/2011 11:58:07 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• cool
11/19/2009 3:08:10 PM by Anonymous
• Back of print has the following comment: Some years back, the Painesdale water tank took on a grotesque appearance as it, through a leak, became arrayed as a near huge stalactite stalagmite. The spectacle happened through a mere miniature leak which grew into an icicle of vast proportions.""
11/2/2006 12:56:39 PM by Christine Holland, MTU Archives
• This is the Masonic Temple building in Houghton, now used by the City of Houghton for it's city offices and police department. It is right on Shelden Avenue, near the Houghton post office.
11/2/2006 8:06:11 AM by Anonymous
• The girl on the left is annettte vukonich from doddgeviille. The girl on the right is from the sun shine beach area. Her family had a car dealership.
11/2/2015 6:27:31 PM by Anonymous
• Such a terrible shame for the loss of lives. My Prayers go out to all the familys even all these years later.
11/20/2008 8:44:42 PM by Anonymous
• Several buildings are discernable in the background, including the light-colored Calumet YMCA Y.M.C.A. in the center of the photograph, the darker Union Building to the left, the taller steeple of the St. Anne's catholic church, and several other church steeples.
11/20/2009 8:44:21 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The building on the lower right is the Miscowaubik Club, the building just beyond it with the fancy stone work is the headquarters and office building for the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company. One of the Amygdaloid shaft houses is on the left.
11/20/2009 8:47:40 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This is actually West Genesee Street in Iron River. (cf. Superior View website, http://www.viewsofthepast.com, under Images, Michigan Cities and Towns, under I", "TO-IRNR 05 Genesee Street 1920.") - Jeremiah Mason"
11/21/2007 9:54:18 AM by Anonymous
Name:Nan
MTU Class of:1988
Jacker was a true Renaissance man, a self-taught scholar and artist, and a remarkably interesting person. The Peter White Library in Marquette has a couple examples of the finely detailed etchings he did on bracket fungi.
11/21/2011 11:24:06 AM by Anonymous
• Interesting to see this side of the strike. Adds to the legends of strikers attacking passersby with lunch buckets and roughing them up severely. (One turned out to be teacher on his way from Laurium to Tamarack.)
11/22/2010 11:32:25 AM by Anonymous
• This is the logo or seal for the Michigan College of Mines
11/22/2010 7:25:10 AM by Anonymous
• This is the logo or seal for the Michigan Mining School.
11/22/2010 7:25:40 AM by Anonymous
• This is the logo or seal for the Michigan College of Mining and Technology.
11/22/2010 7:26:08 AM by Anonymous
• This is the logo or seal for Michigan Technological University.
11/22/2010 7:26:36 AM by Anonymous
• Donna Beels, Michigan Tech
11/22/2011 2:30:36 PM by Anonymous
• Based on the 1900 Sanborn Fire Map of Calumet, the building in the foreground is the Calumet Elementary School. The church behind St. Anthony of Padua is the Calumet Congregational Church. Joseph Martin, Romeoville, Illinois. POsted 23 November 2008
11/23/2008 10:04:30 PM by Anonymous
• Based on a perfect match with a family photo, I can confirm that the miner standing at the far right end in the second row is Peter Tobola, an immigrant from Mieczewo, Schrimm, Posen, Poland, who married Petronella Wojkiewicz at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Red Jacket on 11 November 1882. Joseph Martin, Romeoville, Illinois. Posted 23 November 2008.
11/23/2008 10:10:18 PM by Anonymous
• I think this shaft is #3, another Baltic photo shows #2 rock bin as being closed in.
11/23/2008 12:14:11 PM by Anonymous
• The coach is Bob Lockwood who later coached at Mt.Clemens High in Mt. Clemens, MI
11/23/2008 8:55:07 AM by Anonymous
Name:Dan Rivard
MTU Class of:1959
No lofts in DHH 1955 to 1959. Douglas Tech refers to the Douglas House downtown. Overflow went to the Douglas Hotel. Barracks behind DHH were full and overflow were housed in DHH basement ballroom 'till dropouts left. Everything was full and last of the overflow went downtown. Their walk to the Doghouse bar was inside the building and a real advantage during winter quarter.
11/23/2010 6:53:28 PM by Anonymous
• This is a photo of the Osceola Mining Co. Area around Shafts # 1 and 2, looking north/northwest towards Swedetown left, Tamarack location center rear and Calumet, right. The stone building lower left is the Mining Captain's Office, still standing on Store Street. Copper Falls Mill may be the name of one of the buildings along Mine Street running diagonally from center to lower left. The rail spur lower right and some of the lumber in the warehouse are also still on the ground there. The large rockpile is from #2 and the foundation for the old Cornish engine is just up-right of the rockpile, the other side of the rail line. The depot is the low gray building just above and right of the Captain's Office. The dark building on the left edge is a hall and gymnasium.
11/24/2008 11:44:07 AM by jegriebe
• I'm wondering if this might not be in the field north west of Osceola #1 & #2. If you follow the route of Bush Street west from Church Street you will come across a large sink" which has evidence of fencing around it at some time. It's to the south of the Mineral Range Line and Mine Street and lines up well in this picture with C & H workings in the background center and right."
11/24/2008 12:19:55 PM by jegriebe
• This is one of the original married enlisted men's cabins at Fort Wilkins.
11/24/2010 12:48:59 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Copper Harbor range light - the keeper at the time was Charles T. Davis.
11/24/2010 1:09:59 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Copper Harbor rear-range lighthouse.
11/24/2010 1:12:16 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Copper Harbor rear-range lighthouse.
11/24/2010 1:12:16 PM by Anonymous
• My first PCS as a 2lt radar maint. officer. The snow in 64 was about 20ft total. I lived with wife and kids in a mobile home behind cliff view inn bar,I did some great bow hunting for deer. What an experience. My commander maj. McFerson was killed in 66 by incomming while he sat in a sandy ready for take off. A single man, he left a gull wing mercedes up on blocks somewhere in upper PI.
11/24/2010 8:53:33 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
This would appear to be the main drag" of the Village of Nonesuch, 5 miles south of Union Bay and 22 miles west of Ontonagon; tucked way up in the Porcupine Mountains. From the 1850's through the 1880's this was a booming mining town with several different periods of development; the last culminating in a $400,000+ investment that didn't work. During its heyday, the village was home to over 350 residents boasting a uniformed baseball team and a marching band! The automobile is heading north on the main road through town, with the remaining workers' dwellings in the 1920's. This was the road linking the mine site on the Little Iron River to the tram that ran 5 miles downhill to their warehouse and ore dock on Lake Superior. This road is now the main trail leading through the village location to the former mines site and is reachable from the South Boundary Road of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park."
11/24/2011 12:07:36 AM by Anonymous
• The building is brand spanking new in this picture not run down" .It appears to be nearing completion in the winter of 1901 .That explains the "Keep out" sign...The actual doors for the front and for the fire wagon garage are not installed yet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Linden_Village_Hall_and_Fire_Station"
11/25/2010 11:21:46 PM by Anonymous
• the few of us that could hit that tank on right and back of statue with a snowball were considered to have good throwing arm--I could--lol
11/25/2015 1:18:10 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Portage Life Saving Station in 1914 at North Entry of Keweenaw Waterway. The lighthouse is the Houghton Canal Lighthouse.
11/26/2010 11:10:54 AM by Anonymous
• This is the Portage Life Saving/Coast Guard in 1915) Station at North Entry of Keweenaw Waterway. The tower is the lookout. The boat is a Merryman surfboat. The lighthouse is a pier light on the west breaker.
11/26/2010 11:16:57 AM by Anonymous
• This was a much smaller building that was living quarters in the back, and a grocry store in the front.
11/26/2010 2:53:25 PM by Anonymous
• The original building was smaller with living quarters in the back. The front was a grocery store plus cabins back of the building. It was built by Eldred DeMarois, who purchased the property after he got out ot the service. He later had a small take out of pasties made by his sister's Ione Johnson and Laurin Mills.
11/26/2010 2:57:02 PM by Anonymous
• This is an engine house or engine shed depending on who you talk to; not a roundhouse. The tracks appear to be leading into a switch. A roundhouse is so named because it is placed around" a turntable. A turntable and roundhouse would be way too costly for two stalls/engines so for smaller yards, sheds or engine houses were constructed."
11/27/2007 3:40:30 PM by Anonymous
• I particularly like this photograph. The image demonstrates the totality of the 1913 strike in the sense that it involved all elements of the community.
11/28/2006 11:12:41 AM by Anonymous
• My brother, John Wuthrich, graduated from Michigan Tech in the early 1950's, married a Houghton gal and built a home at the top of Vivian Street. I have fond memories of summers in Houghton visiting with my big brother and his family, and of picking nightcrawlers on the lawn in front of this magnificent old building in preparation for trout fishing on the Pilgrim River. To this day, I am saddened to think that this handsome stately old fellow could have been knocked to the ground in the name of progress.
11/28/2006 8:23:00 PM by Anonymous
• He later changed the spelling of his last name to MacNair.
11/28/2007 3:24:03 PM by Anonymous
• That description" was obviously written by someone who was pro-management and anti-union. The "special deputies" did many things, but "preserving" the "peace" would not have been an accurate description."
11/28/2009 10:53:00 AM by Anonymous
• The building" is the Houghton County Courthouse in Houghton. The building is still there, as are these stairs (although the doors in the background have been changed). Many of the figures from the strike were photographed here."
11/28/2009 10:57:33 AM by Anonymous
• his name should read John T. Reeder" (middle name was Thorley)"
11/28/2010 5:52:00 PM by mcooper_5
• This is the east side of US 41 between third and fourth streets
11/28/2012 10:53:40 PM by Anonymous
• Back row: Dennis Hruska, Paul Walikainen, Ed Massie, Walt Soumis, Jim Mayle, Harry Byykonen, Butch BurkmanFront row: Clayton Franti, Jim Campioni, Rueben Huhta, Pete Houle, Don Golden, Ron Ervast Sr.
11/28/2012 11:20:49 PM by Anonymous
• Building still stands on the SE corner of US41 and fourth street
11/28/2012 11:24:48 PM by Anonymous
• This is part of the eleven mile narrow gauge tramway within the plant. I believe that this car is at the case packing house for filling and later horse towed to one of three magazines.
11/29/2006 2:43:06 PM by omega
• This is erroneously called a HEXAGON, when indeed it is a OCTAGON shaped storage silo. The adjacent building was the Soda Dry where the crude nitrate was magnetically screened, steam dried, and sieved for transport to the Dope house down at the Powderline side.
11/29/2006 2:49:16 PM by omega
• This was one of the most disliked jobs at Senter. Here an aqueous solution of ammonium nitrate was evaporated to a slurpee-like" consistency before being ground to the desired crystal particle size. "
11/29/2006 2:54:26 PM by omega
• Technically, not dynamite yet, the tram car is loaded with smaller hod cars of dry dynamite ingredients from the Dope house, on their way to the Wheel Mix house to be mixed with nitroglycerin, then becoming dynamite""
11/29/2006 2:57:36 PM by omega
• Note the pocket - All company issued uniforms were made like this to display the contents of the pockets for any matches or cigarettes. Many men chewed snuff
11/29/2006 2:59:36 PM by omega
• Back of print states: This is a closeup of one of the cabins which served the Victoria in the days prior to 1900. The Victoria mine has two predecessors which came into existence shortly after 1850. These were the Cushion and Forest firms. This photo in the deep forest country of the Victoria, was taken when the temperature was three degrees below zero and the deep snow almost blocked entrance to the site. In the early days of these cabins the only drinking water came from shallow wells. Privies normally were in the rear of the house, but not over 50 feet from each domicile.""
11/3/2006 1:06:09 PM by Christine Holland, MTU Archives
• Back of photo has following comment: When completed, the Victoria log cabins will look like this. Tourists will be premitted to enter and see the domiciles furnished as they were back in 1850-70 when the predecessors of the Victoria were in operation. Mrs. Clinton Roberts of Rockland is in charge of arrangements for the restoration and her husband, Clint, is in charge of the work force of four carpenters and masons. Most of the restorative money is coming from donations.""
11/3/2006 1:15:20 PM by Christine Holland, MTU Archives
• Back of print states: At Central Mine location this is the most ambitious residential structure still habitable in the area. It is the property of Charles Stetter, current Calumet High School principal. The residence now has 12 rooms and used to be the home of the Central Mine clerk, later, agent or suprintendent, John Robert. Erected in 1875, the building near the engine house in which the hoisting machinery for the mine shaft was loacted. It is, the engine house, at the right.""
11/3/2006 1:19:35 PM by Christine Holland, MTU Archives
• Name:Robert Sprague, MTU Class of:1977; This photograph is of the Halliwell mine located in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. It is several miles north of the Nonesuch mine. The Halliwell Copper Company was organized in 1895 by a syndicate of Cleveland, Ohio, residents. Work at the mine was discontinued in 1901. No commercial quantities of copper were produced.
11/3/2016 ; 8:24:31PM by Anonymous
• Appears to be Allouez #2. Allouez #1 would be behind and to the right of the viewer.
11/30/2009 2:10:52 PM by dalongpre
• J. Parke Channing was born in New York City, and graduated from the Columbia College School of Mines in 1883. After spending some time as mining engineer at the Osceola and Tamarack copper mines he was appointed deputy commissioner of mineral statistics for Michigan and prepared that portion of the State report relating to copper mines. He was then engaged for a time in examining gold properties and establishing steamboat navigation in Honduras; on his return to the United States he was appointed inspector of mines on the Gogebic Iron Range in Michigan, holding that position for two and a half years. He was engaged as manager of the East New York iron mine in Michigan, in charge of exploration work for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company along its new line through the iron range and as assistant to the Superintendent of the Calumet & Hecla Copper Mining Company. Mr. Channing took a prominent part in the establishment of the Michigan Mining School at Houghton and in the organization of the Lake Superior Mining Institute. He was an occasional contributor to the ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. [Taken from short biographical sketch from the book The Mineral Industry Its Statistics, Technology and Trade, Vol. III 1894.]"
11/30/2009 3:16:51 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Calumet #2 rock house and shaft house with the old Washington School building (left side, burned in 1929)and the combined Calumet Manual Training and High Schools building (left of the rock house, and my alma mater).
11/30/2009 4:15:10 PM by dalongpre
• This photo looks north from Portland, rather than south.
11/4/2014 9:44:12 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is taken in the middle of Mohawk, the road going off to the left is US41 northbound, the road along the churches is now Stanton ave
11/5/2007 4:45:16 AM by Anonymous
• MS051-016-001-024 - Roger Welch, 1958 winner of the Hancock Elks Soap Box Derby, tries for size the shirt and cap that becomes property of the national champion when the race is run at Akron, Ohio Sunday. The photograph was taken as 160 local Soap Box Derby winners began arriving for the three-day program that precedes the big event. Before a crowd that is expected to exceed 50,000, boys will compete for a Chevrolet prize list of more than $15,000, including the top award of a $5,000 college scholarship.MS051-016-001-026 - A record crowd of more than 75,000 jammed Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio Sunday to see Jim Miley, lean six-footer from Muncie, Indiana win the 21st running of the All-American Soap Box Derby and the $5,000 first prize scholarship. Miley, who jackknifed his tall frame into the needle-shaped black car to aid its speed, is the third Muncie winner in the history of the All American. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - Tuesday, August 19, 1958 pg. 1]
11/6/2007 10:28:08 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• are those the steps to the houghton county court house?
11/6/2012 4:09:48 PM by Anonymous
• ADAM HAAS, deceased, was born in Bavaria, Germany, January 22, 1822. He learned the cabinet-maker's trade in his native country; was married in 1843 to Miss Eva Lorsch, daughter of Francis I. Lorsch. Mrs. Haas was born in Bavaria in 1825. Two children were born to them in Germany, a son and daughter—Joseph and Frances. In 1852, Mr. Haas emigrated to America. He came directly to Houghton, Lake Superior, Houghton Co., Mich. He remained only a few months, and then located at a point ten miles up the lake. Here he established a line of small boats between Portage Lake and Eagle River, which he operated several years. In 1854, he removed to Houghton, where he engaged in the wine and liquor trade. In 1859, he built the first brewery at Houghton. This was a log building, having a capacity of 500 barrels per year. He added frame additions, enlarging as the growing demand required. In 1875, he built the fine stone structure, now the property of the A. Haas Brewing Company, having a capacity of 6,000 barrels a year.
11/6/2015 9:11:36 AM by Anonymous
• Is there a Noise Print in there? That's what Dr. Ray Kauppila, chief engineer, and Sung M. Lee, head of the physical sciences, Keweenaw Research Center, might well be asking as they inspect a military vehicle involved in a noise and vibration study that suggests that a vehicle can be detected and identified by its characteristic noises - in much the same way that "voice prints" identify individual human beings." - The Michigan Tech Alumnus, May-June 1976, Vol. 13 #2"
11/7/2006 12:45:27 PM by Christine Holland, MTU Archives
• DEER FEED PREFERENCE STUDIES NEXT SUMMERThey think he's their parent, so grad student Bill Bauer has four young deer eager to walk in the woods with him - on leashes! He's getting ready for the deer feed preference studies next summer.Not many people would have the patience to do what Bill Bauer has done. The quiet-spoken graduate student from Green Bay (his B.S. was earned in Wisconsin) became the "father" of four, day-old fawns this spring. By being the first living creature in their lives - and the first to feed and take care of their needs - all four of the wild creatures now accept Bill as a parent. For those first few weeks, Bill even pitched a tent in their outdoor compound so that he could be there to feed and protect them. "It was the best way to accustom these deer to being harnessed and working off tether ropes in close association with man," explained Dr. Fred Stormer, assistant professor of Forestry and the leader of the project that has received McIntire-Stennis Act funding. Next summer, Bill and his deer will be "working" three distinct types of aspen habitat in Dickinson County, courtesy of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources which also provided two of the new-born fawns.Deer populations in the Great Lakes States seem to thrive best on the rich ground flora associated with the aspen type. Game biologists believe that deer naturally select the most nutritious food available in any forage areas, so Bill will be recording precisely what and relatively how much of each species the deer consume in each of three different ages of aspen stands. The results could dictate changes in the management of aspen stands so that they could support larger and healthier deer herds.We'll be following Bill Bauer and his deer "assistants' when they begin working their test plots next summer. At the moment, Bill's chief concern is that his four-legged colleagues don't slip out of ther compound and become targets for the deer hunters." - ALUMNUS MAGAZINE, November-December, 1975"
11/7/2006 1:03:14 PM by Christine Holland, MTU Archives
• According to architectural historian Kim Hoagland, this was the Leopold Building, built for Nathan Leopold, designed by Henry L. Ottenheimer, built in 1903 by the local superintendent for Paul Mueller, Herman Gundlach. Drawings of this building are part of the Gundlach Drawings Collection and are in the MTU Archives map drawer 85E.
11/7/2007 8:13:37 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This picture was taken 1964 or after because the roof repairs on the first house were done in the summer of 1964
11/7/2008 9:56:18 AM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
This appears to be the Range Lighthouse on the shore just north of Fort Wilkins along the west bank of Fanny Hooe Creek. The gable was added after initial construction and the door configuration in the photograph doesn't match the present building.
11/7/2011 11:17:33 AM by Anonymous
• This would appear to be the Central Exploration (Frontenac) rather than the Central. The Central was no longer in operation at this date.
11/7/2011 9:05:58 AM by Anonymous
• This was a traveling" safety clock awarded each year to the safest plant. Senter won this in 1957, and held it until the close 12-28-60"
11/8/2006 12:53:19 PM by Anonymous
• Other than the fact that it was and still is OCTAGONAL, this building was used to store crude sodium nitrate from Chile, which arrived in boxcars. Nearby is the soda dry building where it was ground, dired, and magnetically separated for any spark producing contamination.
11/8/2006 12:57:47 PM by Anonymous
• Back of photograph states: Gagnon photographed the Kerredge Theatre in Hancock during the days he served the playhouse as a stage hand and boy bill peddler. He recalls the showhouse as being built in 1902, ended its days in a fire in 1959 and in its early days was the most important theater north of Milwaukee's Alhambra on Wisconsin Avenue.""
11/8/2006 1:35:50 PM by Christine Holland, MTU Archives
• Both images are taken from postcards. The back of the color postcard states: Douglass House, Houghton, Michigan Gateway to Isle Royale, T.V., family rates, convention center of Houghton County. Private dining rooms. Huskies, Gay 90's bar with pennies in the floor. Douglass House, center of all activities.""
11/8/2006 1:39:50 PM by Christine Holland, MTU Archives
• This sandstone building is the current location of Family Dollar Store which was preceeded by Woolworth's. I have never seen a picture of what was there before Woolworth's. What a beautiful building and what a shame it is no longer standing. Thank-you for sharing this picture
11/8/2006 2:53:55 PM by DAubin3
• In the center area of this photo the researcher will notice that portions of a railroad trestle can be seen being erected which on completion ran over and above the spillway. In fact there were a total of three railroad trestles over the spillway. (1) near the dam (2) one that lead from the dam to the mill and (3) over the spillway on its way to the lower section of the mill, the mineral bin and lake shore.However, this spillway was undermined in 1905 due to improper building at the gates, and so a large section of this launder was undermined by heavy flow of water and timbers broke up and shot down the waterway and into Lake Superior. It was rebuilt in 1905-06 and with a heavy concrete base it was permanently set till the great flood of Easter Sunday, 1940, when the decaying spillway disintegrated as huge waves of water shot lake-ward. [Back of photograph]
11/8/2007 12:49:01 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This photo is the very last to show the steel dam waters to be at their highest. After the photo was taken, Copper Range decided to let all of the water out and keep it at its minimum level thereafter. The dam was built in 1900-01 and the Baltic Mill in 1901-02. Several people have lost their lives in this dam, three by accidental drowning and one by suicide.Native brook trout and rainbow were plentiful throughout the years of the existance of the dam but after the demolition of the spillway, trout were unable to negotiate the return to the dam and river to spawn and so for many years there were no trout of any kind. Now it is being planted by the Dept. of Natural Resources and fishing is again fair to good. This photo was taken in the summer of 1947. [Back of photograph]
11/8/2007 12:54:58 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The Atlantic Mining Company's log dam at Redridge, was built in 1890-91 by the Atlantic Mining Company to supply its newly built mill with sufficient water supply to use in its copper processing. The water from the dam was routed to the mill via a wooden launder shown here in the foreground and the route ran directly north at surface level along where the old road ran and in front of the August Kaiser residence back of the Coggin's home and then over the roadway that led down to the ball ground and to Simonson's residence. After passing over the roadway it lead directly to the mill site.Two children drowned accidently in the waterway or launder. They were Fred Gabe age 13 who was sitting on a cover dangling his feet in the rushing waters to keep cool on a hot summer day and then he slipped in and was pulled underneath the heavy wooden covers and down into the mill where his body was recovered. Also little Elizabeth Carpenter drowned in the launder as she slipped into a misplaced cover over the launder and was dragged underneath and down into the mill where her body was recovered. She was 7 years of age and was on her way to enter the school yard. The launder ran across the roadway into the school and paralell to the school. The water eventually stopped when the Atlantic Mill closed in September of 1912. The Carpenters moved out west and Elizabeth's brother, Chelis Carpenter, eventually became the U. S. Federal District Attorney for all of the San Francisco Bay area.This photo was taken by Bill Brinkman immediately after the Copper Range Company decided to lower all the water in the steel dam thereby exposing the original log dam and its environs. All this area had been under water since 1902 on the completion of the Steel Dam by the Baltic Mining Company. Now, viewers will be unable to see this scene for its all grown in by shrubs, second growth maple and other vegetation. Photo taken in summer of 1947. [Back of photo]
11/8/2007 1:07:28 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• It is interesting to note (for those who are really digging into the basic facts of this operation) that there is a short spur of railroad track down below the steel works and running along the lower parts of the dam up toward the woodland and then gradually moving upward in gradual grade until it reached a switch near the Club House", the summer home of the Stanton and Dr. Moore families. The switch for the railroad was near the south side of the Stanton resort property (NOT the east side gate). From there the locomotive and cars joined the mainline of the Atlantic Mining Company's miniature railroad system. NOTE: The Copper Range Railroad had not yeat reached Redridge or Beacon Hill or Freda till about 1902, on a track system that ran along the dam site south side.This photo (one of the very best in the posession of photographer Bill Brinkman of Redridge, was taken by the Construction Company's official photographer and is in the care of Robert and Irving Gabe of Phoenix, Arizona. [Back of photo.]"
11/8/2007 1:18:46 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Here the steel plates are riveted in place with the exception of a few plates near the east end of the dam (east side). In the foreground are heavy debris of twigs, stumps, and swamplands which when the dam was completed was completely covered by many feet of water.The old Atlantic Mill's log dam can be seen in the left foreground. This too, was completely covered by water impounded by the steel dam.The log dam at its deepest point (channel) was some 40 feet deep but the steel dam at its deepest point (channel) was 75 feet deep.In the old days, when both the Atlantic and Baltic mills were operating, the dam often overflowed without any attention or worry or fear from the town residents. But, after the Atlantic Mill closed in 1912 and the Baltic in 1922, overflowing of the dam was so rare that in 1940 Easter Sunday, its flood waters spilling over the steel caused the news to be reported by the Associated Press worldwide, as a catastrophe, which in a way it was not.As of this date (Sept. 10, 1982) the steel dam has been relegated to the Department of Natural Resources as a historic monument, by the Copper Range Mining Company. [Back of photo]
11/8/2007 1:26:38 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Looking at this pix, I thought it looked like my father. It IS my father John Gasperich. In later years in his life he worked at Michigan Tech in their safety department.
11/8/2014 8:49:31 PM by Anonymous
Name:Carolyn Gasperich
MTU Class of:
I remember this bowling pin factory in Dodgeville as a child. They were made in one of the Isle Royale No. 5 buildings. The Isle Royale No. 5 rockpile is in the background. This rock has been crushed and the rockpiles at No. 4, 5 and 6 are gone.
11/8/2014 9:14:03 PM by Anonymous
Name:Carolyn Gasperich
MTU Class of:
I think this is a pix of the houses in the No. 5 location in Dodgeville. It looks like the roof and chimney of the Dodgeville school near the left side of the pix..
11/8/2014 9:45:19 PM by Anonymous
Name:Carolyn Gasperich
MTU Class of:
I went to Kindergarten and 1st grade at the Isle Royale School. It is still standing and was converted into apartments.
11/8/2014 9:53:20 PM by Anonymous
• The shrine of the Snowshoe Priest rises six stories above the Red Rocks Bluff near L'Anse on Keweenaw Bay. Hand wrought of brass, holding a seven foot cross and snowshoes 26 feet long, the statue of Bishop Baraga is 35 feet tall and weighs five tons. It is supported by five laminated wood beams rising 25 feet from concrete tepees 10 feet tall representing Baraga's five major missions.The sculptor is Mr. Jack E. Anderson of Copper Country Arts, Inc. of Lake Linden, Michigan. Co-sculptor is Mr. Arthur Chaput, Jr., also of Lake Linden. The statue was transferred to the Red Rock site from the artist's studio on May 31, 1972. Within inches of perfect positioning, spectators viewed a near tragedy. A flash fire swept through the monument, burned the insulation and scorched it's finish. [Bishop Baraga Foundation Brochure.]
12/1/2008 11:06:22 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This is NOT Woodmar drive, at least not where Woodmar is today. This is north of US 41. The shot is facing east taken from the roof of Sherman Gym (now humanities or something) which is in the extreme right foreground. The rounded top building (quonset hut) was home to hockey players in the 50's and 60's. The old football field is on the right. Most of these buildings were gone by 1965 and perhaps a lot sooner. -- Chris Otis, Michigan Tech Class of 1970
12/1/2008 4:33:01 PM by Anonymous
• I'm guessing that USM probably means United States Mail. This must be a mail sled used to deliver mail on roads covered in snow like this street. If the house in the background on the right is the J. T. Reeder House then this is likely College Avenue in Houghton. Looks like the horse and mail man are right in the middle of the street.
12/1/2011 1:07:56 PM by Anonymous
Name:Luanne Hamel
MTU Class of:
This is strawberry grower, Ralph Golden with his daughter Lisa standing in a field of rye that was planted as a green manure crop". The rye was planted in the spring and plowed under in the fall to replenish nutrients in the soil. Ral"
12/10/2009 12:07:15 PM by Anonymous
• This shafthouse operated on two different underground shafts. It had two separate hoists and the shafts went off in different directsions as they left the collar.
12/11/2007 9:55:05 AM by Anonymous
• The 2 children in the pic with John MacInnes are his kids: Scott and his sister Pat taken in about 1958 (submitted via email)
12/11/2008 12:50:51 PM by Anonymous
• That street car scene has to be 1902 for two reasons determined from the sign on the street car which announces a hockey game Hockey! Pittsburg vs Portage Lake, 2 games at the Palace Ice Rink, Monday and Tuesday, March 10 and 11". The Palace ice rink, in Ripley, last saw hockey play by the Portage Lake team when the Amphidrome Ice rink, just across the Portage, in Houghton, opened for its first Portage Lake game December 26, 1902. Secondly, the dates "Monday and Tuesday, March 10 and 11", occurred only in 1902.Info from www.cchockeyhistory.org(submitted via email)"
12/11/2008 12:52:40 PM by Anonymous
• There is another photograph of a streetcar with a placard for a Pittsburgh hockey game: http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=603838#
12/11/2008 1:41:58 PM by Anonymous
• There is another photograph of a street car with a placard for a Pittsburg hockey game: http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=616128#
12/11/2008 1:42:45 PM by Anonymous
• This looks like what was called the Isle Royale No. 2 location" which is immediately south of Houghton High School."
12/11/2008 1:45:59 PM by Anonymous
• It is possible that the ring was awarded directly to CJHaug who was the goalie on the 1912-13 UP Championship team.
12/11/2012 12:24:30 PM by Anonymous
• The correct name is Dr. John L. Gibson. source: Hockey Hall of Fame
12/11/2012 12:35:37 PM by Anonymous
• This looks like the road I remember going to my grandmother's house in Atlantic Mine when Dad took us to visit her. We could only visit once a year because we lived so far away. Thanks for the memory.
12/12/2008 5:39:08 PM by Anonymous
• The rockhouse in the background appears to be that of the Ahmeek #3/4 shafts.
12/13/2010 9:39:26 PM by Anonymous
• The locomotive in the background is the No. 3 and was originally used at the C&H smelter in Hubble, MI. It has been restored and is now used for train rides at the Houghton County Historical Society museum in Lake Linden, MI.
12/13/2011 1:39:30 PM by Anonymous
• Restored and currently in use at the Houghton County Historical Society museum in Lake Linden, MI.
12/13/2011 4:32:21 PM by Anonymous
• Copper Range 29 (KC RY #29) is now at the Mid Continent Railroad Museum in Wisconsin.
12/13/2011 4:34:21 PM by Anonymous
• Don't believe this is the Allouez Mine. This is the #1 shaft building of the Conglomerate Mining Co. at Delaware, MI The chimney of the pump house is in the left background and the rock house is in the right background. The Conglomerate Mining Co. *was* mining in a rock layer called Allouez Conglomerate, named after another the same layer is found - Allouez,MI
12/13/2014 11:44:38 AM by Anonymous
• Lake Linden was home to a large French Canadian community. Learn more about the experiences of this ethnic group by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/14/2005 6:58:19 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Lake Linden was home to a large French Canadian community. Learn more about the experiences of this ethnic group by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/14/2005 6:58:53 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Lake Linden was home to a large French Canadian community. Learn more about the experiences of this ethnic group by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/14/2005 6:59:06 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Lake Linden was home to a large French Canadian community. Learn more about the experiences of this ethnic group by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/14/2005 6:59:20 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Lake Linden was home to a large French Canadian community. Learn more about the experiences of this ethnic group by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/14/2005 7:00:35 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• First settled in 1851, Lake Linden was at the heart of a booming lumber district with a thriving French Canadian community. French Canadians published newspapers, established churches and schools, and worked in sawmills. One of the most well-known individuals associated with that industry was Joseph Grégoire. Born in St. Valentin, Quebec in 1833, he came to Lake Linden when he was 21 years old. He found work as a woodsman, and in 1867 went into partnership with Louis Deschamps and Joseph Normandin. Together, they operated a sawmill until 1872 when Grégoire assumed sole ownership. Grégoire ultimately built a small empire consisting of mills, factories, and 65 thousand acres of timberlands. Grégoire also had a hand in constructing Lake Linden’s first church: St. Joseph’s was built in 1871 and dedicated to St. Joseph de Calasant.To learn more about the French Canadian community in Lake Linden, visit the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/14/2005 7:02:03 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• First settled in 1851, Lake Linden was at the heart of a booming lumber district with a thriving French Canadian community. French Canadians published newspapers, established churches and schools, and worked in sawmills. One of the most well-known individuals associated with that industry was Joseph Grégoire. Born in St. Valentin, Quebec in 1833, he came to Lake Linden when he was 21 years old. He found work as a woodsman, and in 1867 went into partnership with Louis Deschamps and Joseph Normandin. Together, they operated a sawmill until 1872 when Grégoire assumed sole ownership. Grégoire ultimately built a small empire consisting of mills, factories, and 65 thousand acres of timberlands. Grégoire also had a hand in constructing Lake Linden’s first church: St. Joseph’s was built in 1871 and dedicated to St. Joseph de Calasant.To learn more about the French Canadian community in Lake Linden, visit the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/14/2005 7:02:15 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• St. Joseph’s was built in 1871 and dedicated to St. Joseph de Calasant. By 1883 the congregation numbered 1,800 and was overwhelmingly French Canadian. A larger church to accommodate the faithful was completed in 1912, still stands on Calumet Street, and hosts an active multi-ethnic congregation. Learn more about the French Canadians by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/14/2005 7:04:37 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• St. Anne’s, an imposing French Canadian church, was built in 1900 in Calumet. Learn more about this ethnic group by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/14/2005 7:06:00 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The seven women behind the hearse were brides" of one of the men. According to tradition if you died a single man they represent the brides he should have had while he was alive. (something along this line)scot turnquist"
12/14/2008 10:18:28 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this to be St. Annes as well....If you compare photographs (http://www.pasty.com/heritage/index0.htm) all of the roof structures match, and the side alters do as well (although it looks as if some of the details towards the top have been removed). The paint job looks to be completely different from when this picture was taken and the angels that are apparently missing for bosses along the ceiling are present in the pictures they are just hard to make out.
12/14/2008 12:18:10 PM by Anonymous
• This locomotive is on a section of track near the Q&TL roundhouse. The locomotive will under go a cosmetic restoration.This type of restoration will bring the loco back to its original appearance, but it will not be restored to running condition. Currently the engine in red primer, without the cab on it. I was at the Quincy in September 2011.
12/15/2011 8:24:42 PM by davef908
• I believe this picture was taken at Lake View Cemetery
12/15/2013 11:42:35 PM by Anonymous
• Frederic Baraga is considered the first Slovene to call the Keweenaw home. During the winter of 1843, he was earning his nickname as the Snowshoe Priest for his dedicated service to the small number of English, French Canadian, German, and Ojibway Catholics living in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula. He blazed the path for one of the first significant Slovene communities in the North America. Born in Dobernice in 1797, he landed in the United States on December 31, 1830. Baraga was particularly interested in ministering to Native Americans; he established missions in Ohio, downstate Michigan, and Wisconsin before arriving in L’Anse in 1843. Following the Treaty of LaPointe (1842) he purchased the land around the mission at L’Anse and deeded it to the Ojibway in order to prevent their removal to the west. As the only Catholic priest in the Upper Peninsula, he worked hard to serve the spiritual needs of many nationalities and languages, traveling from Ontonagon to Sault Ste. Marie, and north up along the Keweenaw. During this time, he also compiled the first known Ojibway grammar. By 1853 he was elevated to Bishop of Michigan’s Northern Peninsula. Bishop Baraga’s legacy was honored not only by having a county named after him, but also by the number of Slovenian priests whom he inspired to come to the United States. It has been suggested that of all groups who came here, this pattern – priests preceding lay immigrants – is unique to the Slovenian immigrant experience. By the late 19th century, pioneering priests were serving the growing number of Slovenes who immigrated for work in the Upper Peninsula’s copper and iron mines and lumber industry of the upper Midwest. This information and much more about the Slovene community in the Keweenaw Peninsula can be found on the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/16/2005 2:50:32 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Foreground is the North Amreican mine's stamp sands.Cliff Mine rock pile is in the background.
12/16/2010 8:31:19 PM by Anonymous
• View of the agent's house at Cliff
12/16/2010 9:01:22 PM by Anonymous
• I'm pretty sure this was called the company barn.
12/16/2010 9:31:11 PM by Anonymous
• Plaque disappeared in 1976.
12/16/2010 9:34:43 PM by Anonymous
• South Cliff #1, shaft house.
12/16/2010 9:36:08 PM by Anonymous
• This IS the St. Clair mine. Absolutely.
12/16/2010 9:43:36 PM by Anonymous
• These are houses at the St. Clair mine. Family pictures taken in 1924show the same two houses on left side of picture.
12/16/2010 9:52:09 PM by Anonymous
• Stationed at the 665th in 1968. Had probably the shortest stay of anyone stationed there. Arrived in July and my term ended in October. Fishing was great in the UP!
12/16/2011 9:45:20 PM by Anonymous
• I wonder if this is a mine collapse, I can't think of any gully like this anywhere along where the shafts used to be. It almost looks like a cave in the left bottom portion of the photo
12/17/2007 10:14:20 PM by yooper557
• List of students from back of photo:Miss Perry (Teacher); Gordon Mackenzie; Lenore Gardner; Laurence Etu; Paul; Helen M.; Edla; Murry; Edward; Frances MacKenzie; Helen Morrison; Pauline M.; Herbert; Carrol; James Godfrey; Chester; Catherine; Ilie; Emma P.; Edna; Leslie; Florence; Flora; Robert Knox; Anthony; Charles McClain; Wilbert and Bertha. An additional photo found in the same collection contains a message on the bottom of the photo A Merry Christmas to the Class of 1911"."
12/17/2010 11:06:45 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• That's my great grandpa William Couvion. - Jamie Edwards
12/18/2010 1:13:56 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dan Reilly
MTU Class of:
That's Betty & Wilbert Anderson, my aunt & uncle.
12/2/2010 1:28:51 PM by Anonymous
• The architect for this building was Charles Maass.
12/2/2010 8:35:07 PM by cpomazal
• This appears to be part of Nils Eilertsen's collection of photos that he took in 1925. Compare it with MTU Neg #03374
12/2/2010 8:44:02 PM by cpomazal
• This look like the old m-26 highway if you were going towards South Range. Does anyone know if it is M-26?
12/2/2010 9:30:34 PM by Anonymous
• The house in the foreground is the Jones house, on the corner of Hecla and Fourth Streets in Lake Linden, as the last commentor mentioned. It was built by John E. Jones and his wife, Annabella. John was cashier and on the board of directors at the First National Bank in Lake Linden. He died in 1904, leaving his wife to raise their young children. After his death, Annabella became principal at the McKinley School, right across Hecla Street from the house. John's sister Sarah also lived with the family; it was she who was an assistant librarian at the C&H library in Lake Linden. - Jeremiah Mason
12/2/2011 2:32:18 PM by Anonymous
• This is a John Bean high-pressure truck that was purchased in 1946 (+/-). The pump section was mounted on a new chassis in 1964 and it served as the main fire engine in Chassell until it was replaced by new truck in 1982.
12/2/2012 9:36:39 PM by Anonymous
• The combination car was originally built as a narrow-gauge car. It's shown here riding on standard gauge trucks.
12/2/2013 7:43:42 PM by Anonymous
Name:Brion Beauchene
MTU Class of:
My grandfather Alfred Beauchene was the chief of Calumet and Hecla Fire Department and appears in this photo. He is in the front row second from the left just above the Calumet" on the sign. Great photo. "
12/2/2014 3:34:44 PM by Anonymous
Name:Brion Beauchene
MTU Class of:
This is the C&H tournament team. My Grandfather (top left) Alfred Beauchene was the chief for a number of years.
12/2/2014 4:49:22 PM by Anonymous
Name:Connie Julien
MTU Class of:1974
this picture has to be prior to January 1927;The Amphidrome ice rink in the background was destroyed by fire January 9, 1927.
12/20/2012 2:57:49 PM by Anonymous
• Central Mine and the town of Central were home to many generations of Cornish immigrants. The church still stands in 2005 and although it no longer has a permanent congregation, it is site for an annual church service to honor the town's Cornish ancestry.
12/21/2005 3:36:38 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The Sons of St. George were a fraternal organization which catered to men of British descent. In the mining districts of Michigan, this group usually attracted those specifically of Cornish descent. An 1892 directory of fraternal and masonic lodges listed twelve active lodges for the Sons of St. George across the Upper Peninsula, including groups in the following copper mining communities:Houghton / Duke of Wellington Lodge No. 270 (91 members), Red Jacket (Calumet) / One and All Lodge No. 272 (288 members), Lake Linden / Lincoln Lodge No. 273 (50 members), Central Mine / Sons of Liberty Lodge No. 278 (40 members).
12/21/2005 3:50:31 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• From the online Phoenixmasonry Masonic Museumhttp://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/fraternalism/st_george.htmThe Order of Sons of St. George were first established in Scranton,Pennsylvania in 1871. It was originally founded for the purpose of resisting attacks by the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish immigrant laborers working in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. The Molly Maguires were founded after the predominately Irish Catholic union called the Workingmen's Benevolent Association was broken up the mine owners and officials.The Molly Maguires operated in secret, and used the signs, passwords and grips of the Ancient Order of Hibernians to conceal their criminal activities, which consisted of raiding mine officials homes, beating them up and threatening them with death, and destroying mine owners property during the labor disputes in the 1860s-1870s.The Order of the Sons of St. George evolved into an ethnic fraternal benefit society for Englishmen residing in the United States of America, and their sons and grandsons. It offered sick and death benefits to members, benefits, and social activities such as dances, picnics and other lodge activities.Membership was limited to first-, second- and third-generation Englishmen. There was a female auxiliary called the Daughters of St. George. Both organizations are long defunct.""
12/21/2005 3:57:16 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• That is a Steamer" that has had it's wheels removed and ski's added for the winter. The vertical boiler produced steam for the water pump and the large hose was for connecting to the hydrant"
12/22/2010 3:20:25 PM by Anonymous
• Frank Douglas Insurance Agency is on the main floor in 2011 and has been there for 40+ years.U.P. Engineering occupied most of the second floor and some of the third floor in the 1980s before relocating to the former Community Building, originally the Houghton Men's Club on the SW corner of Shelden and Portage.
12/23/2011 6:44:54 PM by Anonymous
• Intersection of Fifth Street and Oak Street in Calumet looking North. - John Sullivan, '74
12/23/2011 6:50:39 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dick Dobson
MTU Class of:
I was stationed there from Oct 62 to Jun 65. I remember it very fondly. Great people on and off base. Yes I was the Computer Maintenance guy on the AN/FST-2, which digitized the radar data and sent it to NORAD. Yes, I was on duty during the earlier mentioned OOPS", which brought the wrath of LeMay to CAFS. I've read different aspects of the event and since I was the person responsible for everything on the T-2 that day, here is my version of what happened. I knew OPS had visitors that day and they all were doing various types of training exercises. Just prior to something hitting the fan, I remember a certain 2 Lt coming into the computer room and opening the control bay door. At the time, I thought he was just ensuring the correct settings for the training exercise. (Normally, if OPS wanted to change the standby channel they would notify us.) However, it soon became apparent, he must have switched channels (making the Standby channel now the Active channel, thus allowing training data to now transmit as Live data to NORAD) because it became suddenly very chaotic with people running all over the place trying to figure out what was going on. Once I was told what had happened, I quickly figured out what he did and returned the training data back to the Standby channel. After the event, I remember a lot of people having some explaining to do. I was too low on the pay scale, so my Sgt did the talking for me. (FYI: I later designed a fail safe system preventing this from happening again. If the Training Unit was plugged into the Standby channel, you couldn't make that channel the Active channel. As usual, we keep it quite, since I wasn't authorized to change anything!)Looking over other comments, I remember some of the names, but too many years have passed to remember faces. But as I said before, those years bring a lot of smiles to my face even thinking of the cold weather (-52) and the tons of snow (35'). Maybe, come to think of it, that is why I retired to Arizona, just saying.PS: Yes, I do remember seeing several UFO's during my time there and also remember tracking them on radar and height finders. Those were the days!"
12/23/2015 11:22:35 PM by Anonymous
• This is a view of the west end of the Soo Line(originally Wisconsin Central) depot in Ashland WI.
12/24/2007 9:39:46 PM by Anonymous
• This is indeed the son of Peter Ruppe Sr. who settled in Hancock in the early 1860's and briefly had a joint venture with Joseph Vertin. They amicably went their seperate ways and Peter Sr established general merchandise stores in Hancock, Calumet and Baraga as well as invested in real estate, mining etc. Peter Jr ran the Calumet store. Peter Sr built the Victorian on Reservation St in ca 1880, which still stands.
12/24/2010 4:43:34 PM by Anonymous
Name:Bernard Gestel
MTU Class of:
I'm the photographer and the mystery person". I took the photo on July 30,1961. This lifeboat and another sunken one were located in Todd Harbor,Pickett Bay, Isle Royale when I worked as a Park Ranger. I was mistaken as to these lifeboats belonging to the Kamloops and realized it in later years when facts came out on the Emperor sinking. "
12/24/2012 12:11:46 PM by Anonymous
• I was stationed at the 665th from Nov 64 until Aug 67.I worked in the 27 Twr.I remember Richard Toth and his bug eyed Healy,Earl Bergeron,Ken Woodall,Jerry Smith.My wife sue and I lived above Chopps Insurance in Ahmeek.I reside in Mason Mi and have visited the the area many times.Calumet is a sad site now.
12/24/2012 1:37:34 PM by Anonymous
• This photo was taken by Haven Falls looking towards where the LacLaBelle Marina is now. Mt. Bohemia is on the left. Scot Turnquist
12/26/2008 9:58:40 PM by Anonymous
• It is in fact the original DSS&A Houghton Depot.
12/26/2010 6:20:15 AM by jbaakko
• I'm afraid not. The Plow pictured is a Copper Range plow. The one located in Calumet is a Calumet & Hecla plow. The window arrangement on the sides is different.
12/26/2010 6:34:46 AM by jbaakko
• This image can be dated to pre-1958 due to the bridge visible in the background. The more modern Lift bridge was opened in 1959.
12/26/2010 6:43:47 AM by jbaakko
• Also, for more reference, the C&H plow I mentioned can be found in Image #:ACC98-016A-07-09-02. Note the square windows, vs. the round in this photo.
12/26/2010 6:44:58 AM by jbaakko
• 1900? There are automobiles in the photograph (near the freight house).
12/26/2011 2:11:34 PM by Anonymous
• HC&SW RR, Houghton, Chassell & Southwestern Railroad.
12/26/2011 2:21:10 PM by Anonymous
• Now the bus garage near the Houghton High School.
12/26/2011 2:24:55 PM by Anonymous
• That would be the fireman hanging outside the window on that side of the locomotive.
12/26/2011 2:26:35 PM by Anonymous
• These four cars eventually found their way to the Arcadian Mine Tours in Ripley, MI. Three are now on display near the Quincy No. 2 Shaft house. The fourth is in Calumet, Michigan on display in the Union Building.
12/26/2011 2:38:09 PM by Anonymous
• The picture is a mirror image.
12/27/2011 1:26:04 PM by Anonymous
• Pine street is the road starting @ lower left. You can see where it intersects at Calumet Ave (US 41) @ upper right. Agazziz park is at lower right. Scot Turnquist
12/28/2008 9:13:17 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barbara Matz
MTU Class of:1974
In '73 or '74 I lived in a house at the east end of town that was torn down to be replaced by a fast food joint, which turned out to be the Quik Stop. It was an okay house. When I saw what replaced it I thought What a waste," and we still had to drive 100 miles to Marquette for 'decent' fast food!"
12/28/2009 10:00:59 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Helge
MTU Class of:
Believe it or not, I was one of the original employees working as a combination DJ and Bouncer during my senior year at MTU. Disco was KING at that time and we kept the mirrored ball rotating and the bodies out on the famous sunken dance floor with all the standards by Donna Summer, the BeeGees, Gloria Gaynor, KC and the Sunshine Band, and the Commodores. I was missing one of the most important pieces of male Disco costuming because I could not afford to buy a silk shirt that could be worn with the top 3 or 4 buttons unfastened down the front. Fortunately, I was good friends with 4 very talented seamstresses who lived in the Plywood Palace apartments across from the MTU Union. Using a sewing pattern they found at Omar the Tentmaker's Outlet Store, they stitched together an authentic custom-made silk Disco shirt for me that I wore proudly at least one night each weekend. Needless to say, Terri, Charlotte, Margaret, and Linda rarely had to pay for a drink while I was on duty at the Longshot!
12/28/2009 10:02:49 PM by Anonymous
Name:Allan Miller
MTU Class of:
A fellow alumni pointed out a photo of myself in Grad school in 1984. I am the person standing behind Professor John Johnson.
12/28/2009 10:06:23 PM by Anonymous
Name:Kirby Baumgard
MTU Class of:1995
The professor is Dr. John Johnson. I was actually Dr. Johnson's grad student from 89-95. I am actually still working with Dr. Johnson through some research projects with John Deere.He is still doing pretty good.
12/28/2009 10:06:55 PM by Anonymous
Name:Mike Gulliver
MTU Class of:1981
I remember them well. I worked in the hard drive development group atIBM in Rochester, Minnesota in the early 1980's. We were working on a two disc, four surface 8 Winchester hard drive that had a capacity of awhopping 30 MB. Ah the good old days!"
12/28/2009 10:07:22 PM by Anonymous
Name:Chris Hill
MTU Class of:
There was one other person that went to New York for the College Bowl. Unfortunately I do not remember his name. Professor Myron Berry was the coach and did an excellent job of preparing the team. It was quite an interesting time.I did try out for it but did not make it. I also tried out for Jeopardy twice and came just within two questions of qualifying for that show.
12/28/2009 10:08:31 PM by Anonymous
Name:Bob Brown
MTU Class of:1953
It was on the lake front just down the hill from Franklin Square. It was run by Milo Slagg and his wife during the 1930-40's. I think Milo died and Julia, his wife, continued to run it. Seemed like the main man in the actual operation was Curtis __________ or something like that. May have been Eggleston whose father was a plumber in Houghton. (as i remember it and it gets foggier each year....) However, the location is right. If you went down the hill from Franklin Square, the old Carroll Foundry was on the right and the Flour mill was just ahead or slightly to the left.
12/28/2009 10:11:50 PM by Anonymous
Name:Jerry MacInnes
MTU Class of:
I'm not sure but I think the flour mill was on the Houghton waterfront west of what is now the Super 8. From the photo it appears to be across from the ski hill. The Hamar Quandt lumber yard was in that area also. When we arrived in Houghton in 1956 a family by the name of Curt Eggleston, members of the Presbyterian Church, were connected to the flour mill family". "
12/28/2009 10:12:27 PM by Anonymous
Name:Frank Shoffner
MTU Class of:
Bernie Guanera was the alternate. Last I heard, Bernie was CEO of Behre Dolbear in Denver, a major minerals industry consulting firm.
12/28/2009 10:13:45 PM by Anonymous
Name:Chuck Paterka
MTU Class of:1973
If my memory is any good that was the Old women's dorm. It was Located next to the west side of Wadsworth Hall. It was torn down in school year 1968 - 1969 when the US 41 by pass was built.
12/28/2009 10:16:09 PM by Anonymous
Name:Joyce Buerge
MTU Class of:
I resided at Smith House 1956-1959, spent my senior year in Detroit interning at Harper Hospital.Smith House was located in what is now the front lawn of the Delta Sigma Phi house. The address was 1611 Houghton Avenue. This was the traffic was rerouted from the middle of the campus. When my son attended some youth programs before becoming a student I was stunned to find it gone. My question is what happened to it? I trust some idiot didn't just terror it down. It was a treasure.I understand it was built by a lumber magnet and had the most magnificent use of wood, a spectacular stairway, woodwork. The main floor had a small library (the birthplace of Phi Lambda Beta, now Alpha Gamma Delta), the housemother's suite that was the original dining room, a butlers pantry and big kitchen. The living room and I believe the dining room had fireplaces. There must have been a bathroom there too.The second floor had five bedrooms, 3 plus 2 joined by a bathroom. There was another bathroom with the biggest tub I ever saw. Up to the third floor which had a large room, originally the game and play room, and a small bedroom, probably for the staff. One bathroom with a tub and another with two showers. Showers were not original. There was also a storage room with hanging space and drawers, The big room had 12 girls living there, yes 12 with 6 bunk beds, 6 dressers and study desks in the dormers, double desks too. There was access under the eves that we used for closets plus the lucky ones got the big closet in the hallway. Upper class girls got the little bedroom, probably to keep a lid of the freshmen.The laundry was in the basement...nothing fancy but serviceable. Oh, yes, I almost forgot there was a BIG wooden fire escape down the back of the house. It was wired to ring in the housemother's apartment when opened. Remember these were the days when there were hours." Weekdays closing was at 10:15 p.m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 11. Also there was a signout sheet, where you were going and time out and in. This would make students of today laugh.Wadsworth Hall opened that first year. The kitchen and dining room were not complete so meals were served in the Union. Three meals a day! Good physical fitness program! One got good at jumping onto snow banks to avoid being mowed down by the snow plow. It workedI have pictures that show some of the interior and will find them, scan and send along if you are interested.There was a very nice house next door I believe that belonged to a dentist, Dr. Aldrich. I was fascinated when an elevated walkway was installed from his front porch with steps to the street. I learned that was for winter snow...don't shovel till it gets that deep. I mentioned the traffic patter change that came after I graduated. College Avenue was a main thoroughfare through campus and the walk to the old Forestry Building was on top of snow pack and mostly near the roof of the passing cars.This really jogged the memory, names of old friends, and real winter. I am still in contact with some of them.It was 1959 that Pryor House was opened, in 1956 Smith House was the resident of all the women enrolled! The rest of the coeds were local. If I remember correctly our freshman class had 45 women, graduated 10. Donalee Graham Flaningam, died two ears ago, and I used to laugh that Dow Chemical hired 20% of the women graduating in 1960.Three or four years ago Alpha Gamma Delta hosted a Phi Lambda Beta reunion. There is a video of the sharing of life in the days of old and the experience and challenges when we went into the job market. We had 2 current coeds join us and it was a history lesson. A good number of our charter group were there. Interesting that so many have kept in touch since graduation."
12/28/2009 10:18:23 PM by Anonymous
Name:Chris Otis
MTU Class of:1970
I believe Smith House was on the site of the current library. I have one of those concrete pillars from the stone fence. They were tearing it down to build the library in the late 60's. The bit of concrete now supports a sundial in my brother's garden.
12/28/2009 10:19:14 PM by Anonymous
Name:Phil Jose
MTU Class of:1973
Yes, I know exactly where it was. I grew up in Houghton on Clark Street. Dr. Fisher (namesake of Fisher Hall) lived at the top of our street. As a young boy I remember him telling me stories of his house being the first built on Clark Street. He said it was only a horse path when he first built. I recall him telling me stories of his friend Thomas Edison. He even had a light bulb in his front room that Edison gave him and as I recall it still functioned. I lived there for the 1st 24 years of my life, graduated from Houghton High then got my BSCE degree from Tech before going on for a Masters in Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M. The Smith House was directly across the street from one of my best childhood friend’s home. It sat approximately where the Delt Sig House is now. It had beautiful rows of chestnut trees lining the street in front. That area, just West of Wadsworth, was really very picturesque. I was sorry to see it torn apart for the new bypass.
12/28/2009 10:19:44 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Hermann
MTU Class of:1964
The responders are generally correct. The Houghton Flour Mill was located where the park service buildings are now, on the easterly end of their facility, between the tracks and the shoreline. It operated into the 50's and maybe longer. Curt Eggleston was the owner in the 50's and likely to its end. He was active in the community.The foundry mentioned in one of the responses was located to the east on the other side of the tracks, into the hill. I believe the foundry building was the original home of Superior Block Company before it moved to the Isle Royal Sands. The machinery was located within an old wooden building that was likely part of the foundry operation. From an old foundry building to a successful business today, a great example of american capitalism.
12/28/2009 10:21:48 PM by Anonymous
Name:Lorraine Konosky
MTU Class of:
Bob Brown is the closest, the Houghton Flour Mill was were the Park Service buildings are now and Milo and Julia Slagg owned it and when Milo died Julia kept the mill running as her husband taught her and the men that worked there respected her. Julia Slagg sold it to Curt Eggleston (he was with the City of Houghton). He ended up closing the mill.
12/28/2009 10:23:03 PM by Anonymous
• The picture looks like it was taken from the old Sherman Gymnasium from somewhere above the football field. The view overlooks Portage canal in the background. The opening in the fence around the track was still there when I was a freshman, but I'm not sure the building in the foreground was still there. The vehicle parked along side looks very prewar, not uncommon in 1950. My good friend Al Boyer, Track Team captain and fellow distance runner, lived adjacent to the field with his wife. He'd been an aerographer in the service.
12/28/2009 9:35:46 PM by Anonymous
• Married student housing. I used to sell girl scout cookies to the families. Man, it looks like that was a long time ago, I must have been a very young Brownie................Some of the coaches lived in the huts too. Remember Power Plant Drive? There were several there too.Coach Coxes' Daughter
12/28/2009 9:36:10 PM by Anonymous
• It sure looks like it (Vetville"). We spent the years 1954-1956 living in the unit at the far end of those lining the back row in this photo. Only then it was called Lower Woodmar as I recall."
12/28/2009 9:36:59 PM by Anonymous
• Prefab housing units were located behind then Sherman Gym & between Engineers Field & Portage Canal to the North. Similar units called Lower & Upper Woodmar were located Easterly of the then Sig Rho house on the Southerly side of 41 nearly opposite Engineers Field. I lived in Upper Woodmar during 1951-1953. The two bedroom, one bath units were heated by a centrally located oil burning stove." I still recall that one could get along by burning just five gallons of fuel oil per day. Ah the memories!"
12/28/2009 9:38:53 PM by Anonymous
• At the time the new bridge was under construction I was living in Hancockso crossed over the old bridge at least two times a day. I used to eat dinner - frequently a pasty - at Andy's restaurant a half block from the old bridge in Houghton. Some of the bridge construction people also ate there so we had some friendly discussions about bridge construction. Since I was crossing the bridge frequently, I got to know some of the bridge operators and would stop to talk with them. One day, while talking with an operator a ship came along. He said stick around" and left to open the bridge. I was standing on the walkway when a ship came through the bridge. With the turn bridge, the opening on each side was much less than it is with the new bridge. I stood there and the ship was close enough that I could have shook hands with someone on the ship as it went through. -- Bruce Kelly, Class of 1960, 1968, 1969"
12/28/2009 9:42:32 PM by Anonymous
• Spelling on sign is Quik Stop Burgers
12/28/2009 9:45:47 PM by Anonymous
• Ah yes, the Quik Stop, right there in Houghton, near the miner statue asyou drive into town. It reminds me of late night walks back to campus, aftera few beverages. That was usually the best time to eat there. We use tocall it the Quick Slop.
12/28/2009 9:46:36 PM by Anonymous
• I sure do remember the quick stop" sometimes corrupted to the "quick slop", but it was the first fast food burger joint in town. Must have ben about 1975, giver or take a year... "
12/28/2009 9:47:36 PM by Anonymous
Name:Kerry Irons
MTU Class of:1972
My wife and I married on her graduation day in 1973, and we moved into a triplex rental downtown so I could finish the last term of my masters in business. We spent a very pleasant summer living on Sheldon Ave. before taking jobs downstate. On Friday and Saturday nights, we'd see the same car go by a half dozen times as the locals cruised Houghton and Hancock and back again.Imagine my shock/disappointment when I came back to Houghton a few years later to find our old apartment torn down and replaced by the Quick Stop!
12/28/2009 9:48:51 PM by Anonymous
Name:Charles Rogers
MTU Class of:1978
If I remember properly, the Quik Stop (pictured) was a fast-food drive in on the east end of downtown, practically next door to Diamond Mikes. This would have been just west, and across the street, from today's Best Western. At the time, this was the only fast food in Houghton, and perhaps north and west of Negaunee.
12/28/2009 9:50:41 PM by Anonymous
Name:George Hermanson
MTU Class of:1973/1975
That was the fast food restaurant on the south side of Shelden in the first block. Their pancakes were better than their hamburgers.
12/28/2009 9:51:16 PM by Anonymous
• We called it the 'Slow Slop' instead -- it was a more fitting name for that burger joint. -- Becky, class of 1974
12/28/2009 9:51:52 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dick Berry
MTU Class of:1950
Bob Carnahan is right. Including the Al Boyer identification. The car was parked away from the fence so we didn't have to shovel it out. There's a dog before you get to the car. He was our Husky mascot.
12/28/2009 9:53:35 PM by Anonymous
Name:Gary F. Tucker
MTU Class of:
I graduated in the Class of 1959 and lived in the married housing units in Lower Woodmar from 1957 to 1959. The roofs were rounded, and divided into two families per Quonset. Each family had two bedrooms, one bath, a combined kitchen/living room, a fairly large entry because of the snow being so deep in the wintertime and a little storage space.The round roofed building in the lower row at the far right hand side of picture was the community washroom with sinks, clothes washers and dryers and lots of clothes lines to hang up clothes and sheets, etc. You soon found out the best times to get your laundry done. We just set our alarm for between 12:00a.m. & 3:00a.m. and there was no problem getting all the washers or dryers you wanted!
12/28/2009 9:54:27 PM by Anonymous
Name:Raymond C. Ganga
MTU Class of:1964
I certainly remember the trip and the competition. Ohio Wesleyan took a big lead but we made a charge at the end and just failed to catch them when none of us could remember that Anna Sewell wrote Black Beauty" as time ran out. "
12/28/2009 9:57:20 PM by Anonymous
• As a kid growing up in the fifties, the dam served as our swimming hole. The building in the foreground beyond the railroad tracks was where they stored the blasting caps and dynamite. The last building on the right side of the road was where Frank Meyers operated his ice business from in later years. Ice came from the dam.
12/28/2010 4:36:37 PM by Anonymous
• Sure is #2 location, just above Hurontown.
12/28/2010 4:58:56 PM by Anonymous
• Calumet #2 in the background. Behind that is the old Washington School (to the left of #2) and the new Manual Training School (to the right of #2.
12/29/2009 11:34:48 AM by dalongpre
• Inside the Ahmeek #3 & 4 shaft/rock house. The shafts diverged at a 42 degree angle and each had 2 skipways. Judging by the dust on the left way of the left shaft I would guess a skip has just come up and is dumping or has just dumped and is on the way back down. Also, on the right and left sides of the pic are 2 sets of rails that come out of pits in the horizontal and end in the vertical. If I am remembering correctly, the pits are where the man-cars are stored. During normal operation the skips are moving down to collect rock then moving up to dump it into the rock house for crushing and separating. When men need to be moved, the skips are pulled up and secured, and the hoist cable is detached. Ropes (several are hanging in the pic) are then connected to a horizontal man-car and the car pulled up the tracks to the vertical. It is then swung over to the shaft, attached to the rails, connected to the hoist cable, and loaded with men. Once the men are down or up, the car is swung out of the way and the skip resumes hauling.
12/29/2009 12:44:15 PM by dalongpre
• more likely at victoria down by ontonagon. the mines there made great use of what is known as a hydraulic air compressor""
12/29/2011 3:31:57 PM by Anonymous
• No, the drawing shows location of camera and number of photos inside," as the caption states--not the position of the shooters."
12/29/2012 3:29:12 PM by Anonymous
• Date would be circa 1980. If this is the first showing of the Blue Lagoon.
12/29/2014 10:32:56 PM by Anonymous
• The people in the photo, left to right, are Prof. Kenneth McMillin, Prof. Howard Anderson, and Prof. G. Cleaves Byers (note the spelling and name corrections). The computer is a Heathkit Analog Computer (note the vacuum tubes on the top row as part of the amplifiers). This picture is mostly likely taken in Hubbell Hall and was taken in summer 1956.Bruce McMillin
12/3/2008 10:02:35 PM by bmcmillin
• The description should say 'bjornoya' rather than 'Bhornoya.'
12/3/2008 2:28:30 PM by Anonymous
• Judging by the shape of the rock house, the location of the stack, and the presence and height of the trestle to the poor rock pile I would say this is Centennial #1 (originally called A" shaft). #2 (originally called "B" shaft)would later be built on the far side, but only 90 feet away. On the far side of #2 would later be placed a landfill. The large sandstone building on the right appears to be the hoist house and the metal building on the far side of that is probably the boiler house. As of 11/09 pieces of what I believe is the #1 hoist house floor are still present, as are parts of the #2 boiler/engine house, the #2 shaft house, the foundation for the #2 rock house, and several other buildings. The attached image shows the #1 hoist house? floor with the shell of the #2 engine house in the distance.

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12/3/2009 10:37:15 AM by dalongpre
• This would be the interior of the #2 engine house, located approximately 550' SE of the shaft house. My grandpa (Arthur Longpre) worked in this building as an oiler in the 50's and 60's. As a youngster, my father (Fred Longpre)used to visit his father at the house and remembers very well the tremendous thrumming of the pistons. He also remembers greeting the miners as they came out of the shaft house, all dirty and tired, and looking at them in awe (My father went on to work at #6). The attached photo from 11/06/09 is of the remains of the engine house. My father is standing about where the drum used to be and the viewer is looking toward the corner of the building from where this image appears to have been taken from.

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12/3/2009 11:04:01 AM by dalongpre
Name:Tim Malette
MTU Class of:
This is the place where residents of the Point Mills area voted until the the voting location was changed to Hubbell, a few years ago.
12/3/2010 10:57:57 AM by Anonymous
Name:Graham Jaehnig
MTU Class of:2002
The image as presented is sideways. At the bottom of the photograph are a series of holes. These holes indicate that this is a horizontal fire tube boiler, very much the same as the boiler system of a steam-powered train locomotive.
12/3/2014 11:43:27 AM by Anonymous
• The Superior Mine was pretty classy!
12/30/2011 1:52:54 PM by Anonymous
• Victoria Mine compressed air locomotive.
12/30/2011 3:47:30 PM by Anonymous
• today the vats(two of them) are now used by WARM RAIN as storage tanks for their poly-styrene resin.
12/31/2012 10:40:54 PM by adzie40
• The first president of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, Quincy A. Shaw, was born in Boston, February 8, 1825. He graduated from Harvard University in 1845. Shortly after his graduation he made a trip across the continent. This trip aroused his interest in mining and gave him some insight into the possible mining wealth of the Lake Superior Copper Country. He had married Pauline Agassiz, daughter of Louis Agassiz and sister of Alexander Agassiz. Mr. Shaw was president of the Huron Mining Company in 1864. [Another version of this photo appears on page 43 of the book RED METAL - THE CALUMET AND HECLA STORY by C. Harry Benedict from where this biography excerpt of Mr. Shaw was taken.]
12/4/2009 11:25:21 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:Graham Jaehnig
MTU Class of:2001
This photograph shows the Tamarack No.1 shaft/rockhouse. It is not, as the caption states, one of the Trimountain shafts.
12/4/2015 2:47:01 AM by Anonymous
• Road Commission Gives Fund More Than 100 Per Cent - The Houghton County Road Commission employees helped Mrs. Lawrence Vogel, the Ripley area chairman of the Portage Lake Community Fund, not only to meet her quota with 100 per cent on the payroll deduction plan but also added extra emphasis to this worthy cause by contributing an extra $50 from their employee group fund. Mrs. Vogel was loud in her praise of the road employees for their generosity and for the inspirational effect it has on her and her co-workers. She said these are the same men who drive and maintain the huge equipment of the Road Commission that keep the roads open during the numerous blinding blizzards for which the Copper Country is famous. These are the same men who do so many Good Samaritan acts, many of which are unheralded, such as meeting emergencies like getting expectant mothers to the hospital and marooned hunters from their camps to the main roads as well as opening highways so the school buses can get children to their respective homes. [Daily Mining Gazette Article, Monday, November 3, 1958 pg. 11]
12/5/2007 8:43:52 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The person pictured is Joe Kirkish who should be credited with bringing Public Radio to the Keweenaw. During the 1970's there were many local programs from MTU: EE dept. head, Dick Schwartz did a program on the Arts (he played clarinet in the symphony), Hal Nufer and Dave Halkola did a full hour's programs on the Social Sciences - locally and nationally, Don Yerg did a program where he interviewed visiting scientists and discussed MTU's graduate and research programs.
12/5/2014 10:55:42 AM by Anonymous
• Opeche isn't Mohawk. It was the name of the community surrounding the Osceola Mining Company.
12/5/2014 5:33:11 AM by Anonymous
• This is a photograph of my great grandfather, Zigmond Molnar who when he arrived at Ellis Island had his name reversed due to the fact that in Hungary the family surname came first followed by the given name. From then on, our family's surname was changed to Zigmond. His son, Molnar was maternal grandfather. He was married twice. His wife, Mary nee Solar arrived in the United States and was previously married to Jonas Sarwash
12/5/2014 8:36:21 PM by Anonymous
• Photo taken by Earl Gagnon who wrote the following: Copper Harbor, MI - While the men who worked hard and long to pull this big anchor out of Lake Superior at Copper Harbor still are happy about their historic find, yet there has come some information that has dampened their enthusiasm. The State of Michigan has levied a restraining order on Roger Nillessen because of the anchor being an artifact from the depths of Lake Superior which Michigan has control of through cooperation with the United States. The law says that all artifacts taken from the bottom of the Lake belong to Michigan if the confines are within the state. Of course, the big item is that the anchor is believed to have been attached to the former pre-Civil War craft, the John Jacob Astor. This craft sank in the harbor in 1843. It was a vessel involved in the packet and supply trade frunishing commodities to the early copper miners in the harbor area. From left, Nillessen, his aide, John James Shea, and wrecker owner, George Tester.
12/6/2006 1:20:23 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The man standing in the aisle with the camera in the foreground in this image is Carlos Rawlings. Two photos he took at this time are included in the Coppertown USA photograph collection, donated to them by his daughter. The two images perfectly bookend" this image; one was taken when the statue was fully covered, and the other was taken when it was completely uncovered. (You can see in this image that the sheet is just being removed.) - Jeremiah Mason"
12/6/2007 4:17:24 PM by Anonymous
• Tuesday, at 3 p.m. the official dedication ceremonies of the new terminal building at the Houghton County Memorial Airport will take place, with Ted Pearce of Michigan Tech acting as master of ceremonies. Dr. John R. Van Pelt, president of Michigan Tech will make the dedicatory speech. Frank N. Buttomer, vice president in charge of traffic and sales for North Central Airlines, on behalf of North Central President H. N. Carr will initiate A.S. Kromer vice president of Calumet & Hecla, into the official family of the airline's Presidential Advisors.Mr. Buttomer will be assisted by three North Central stewardesses, Molly Riley, Mary Killoran and Rose Ray.Other personnel of the airline who will attend the dedication ceremonies are Miss Charlotte Westberg, staff assistant to the president; A. D. Niemeyer, vice president of operations; R. H. Bendio, vice president, maintenance and engineering; D. E. Moran, staff assistant to the vice president of traffic and sales; D.C. Wright, public relations manager, and R. W. Erdmann.Other distinguished guests at the airport ceremony will be Carl F. Winkler, airport manager; Raymond Hosking, chairman of the Houghton County Board of Supervisors; Herman Gundlach, general contractor and Lyle Tonne, architect. [Daily Mining Gazette Article, Monday, December 1, 1958 pg. 6]
12/6/2007 9:11:12 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Detroiter Selects Keweenaw Region for Retirement - Hunting of Canadian Geese has been good at Lake Bailey and its immediate environs, according to Howard F. Snure, owner of much of the acreage in the district which also includes much of the big lake area.Howard was in Houghton the other day coming to the Portage Lake district with Senator Leo H. Roy of Hancock. The two had spent a few days in the Keweenaw Big Silver area where Howard is building a large house.Formerly of Hasting St. Detroit 26, the Grosse Pointe area man is in love with the Keweenaw area he has recently purchased. The plot contains some 900 acres which were obtained from the Esrey estate, a land chunk which goes way back into the history of Michigan's tip Peninsula.Howard intends to spend most of his time in Keweenaw. Consequently he has disposed of most of his Lower Michigan interests and lives in current semi-retirement from the Amouip Co. of which he was president.He considers the Keweenaw Country something of an untouched primitive paradise. He is trying to learn its history, observe its scenery and get an insight into its geology, topography, and of course hunting. [Daily Mining Gazette Article, Saturday, October 25, 1958 Green Sheet]
12/6/2007 9:25:04 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:Brandon Sexton
MTU Class of:
It was located on the corners of Hancock and Tezcuco Streets, built in 1863.
12/6/2009 3:23:08 PM by Anonymous
• We used this ski hut when I was in school.
12/6/2010 3:21:21 PM by Johnsonhelen@yahoo.com
• Image number should be MS220-07-404-001.tif
12/6/2012 12:03:59 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Depot (CMStP&P) at Rockland
12/6/2013 10:34:11 AM by Anonymous
• This is Jack Neph who passed away in December 1994.
12/7/2007 8:58:32 AM by Anonymous
• A touching photo and also description. I got goosebumps looking at the picture and reading the description. Lovely.
12/7/2008 2:12:54 PM by samotis
• I am related to the Stimac family through my mother, Victoria Stimac Fink. William and Anton were my grandfather's brothers. We lived downstate but visited my grandparents in Copper City every summer while I was growing up and it was always such a treat to visit Mike at the store!
12/7/2014 12:34:39 AM by Anonymous
• This parade is on Oak Street in Calumet, marching east approaching 7th Street. - Jeremiah Mason
12/8/2010 10:39:56 AM by Anonymous
• This photo was taken looking north on 6th Street in Calumet, just north of the WFM office in the Wilmers Block. The Vertin home is at the left edge of the frame. - Jeremiah Mason
12/8/2010 10:42:56 AM by Anonymous
• This photograph shows an earlier building, of wood frame construction, used by St. Joseph's catholic church on Oak Street in Calumet. The church was built for the Slovenian community and was served by Slovenian priests. Calumet was one of the first settlements in the United States for Slovene immigrants. Slovenes later financed construction of a larger, more impressive St. Joseph church, constructed from Jacobsville sandstone. That later building was renamed St. Paul the Apostle in 1963. Learn more about Slovenes in the Copper Country by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/9/2005 4:00:41 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This photograph shows an earlier building, of wood frame construction, used by St. Joseph's catholic church on Oak Street in Calumet. The church was built for the Slovenian community and was served by Slovenian priests. Calumet was one of the first settlements in the United States for Slovene immigrants. Slovenes later financed construction of a larger, more impressive St. Joseph church, constructed from Jacobsville sandstone. That later building was renamed St. Paul the Apostle in 1963. Learn more about Slovenes in the Copper Country by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/9/2005 4:01:06 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This photograph includes the twin spires of the St. Joseph catholic church on Oak Street in Calumet. An earlier building, of wood frame construction, was located on this site and also called St. Joseph's. both churches were built for the Slovenian community and was served by Slovenian priests. Calumet was one of the first settlements in the United States for Slovene immigrants. The building in this photographs was constructed from Jacobsville sandstone and was renamed St. Paul the Apostle in 1963. Learn more about Slovenes in the Copper Country by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/9/2005 4:03:30 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This photograph shows an earlier building, of wood frame construction, used by St. Joseph's catholic church on Oak Street in Calumet. The church was built for the Slovenian community and was served by Slovenian priests. Calumet was one of the first settlements in the United States for Slovene immigrants. Slovenes later financed construction of a larger, more impressive St. Joseph church, constructed from Jacobsville sandstone. That later building was renamed St. Paul the Apostle in 1963. Learn more about Slovenes in the Copper Country by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/9/2005 4:04:51 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• 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
• Calumet was one of the first settlements in the United States for Slovene immigrants. Historians claim that Jozef Vertin and Peter Ruppe (an early ancestor --maybe father? -- of the Peter Ruppe in this photo) were two of the region's first Slovene settlers. Learn more about Slovenes in the Copper Country by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/9/2005 4:35:23 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The Copper Country (Calumet in particular) was home to 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 first Slovene settlers. Ruppe was elected the first mayor of the Village of Red Jacket (now Calumet) and operated a general merchandise business which included this dock and warehouse facility on the Hancock waterfront.Learn more about Slovenes in the Copper Country by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/9/2005 4:41:33 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The Copper Country (Calumet in particular) was home to 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 first Slovene settlers. Ruppe was elected the first mayor of the Village of Red Jacket (now Calumet) and operated a general merchandise business which included this dock and warehouse facility on the Hancock waterfront.Learn more about Slovenes in the Copper Country by visiting the Interior Ellis Island web site.
12/9/2005 4:41:57 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Image #MS042-042-T-448 is a near copy of this negative, but includes the missing corner. They are not exact copies, however, as the other image includes more content around the edges.
12/9/2005 4:43:07 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• I've never been in St. Mary's but the pulpit is on the wrong side of the building for St. Anne's.
12/9/2006 9:24:46 AM by Cornishbard
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
The MTU Communications Collection's catalog (MTU-004) describes this photo series KRC Optics Lab""
12/9/2009 4:39:52 PM by Anonymous
• The MTU Communications Collection's catalog (MTU-004) describes this photo series KRC Tank Pad Testing (Color)""
12/9/2009 4:41:39 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
The MTU Communications Collection's catalog (MTU-004) describes this photo series KRC Tank Pad Testing (Color)""
12/9/2009 4:42:32 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
The MTU Communications Collection's catalog (MTU-004) describes this photo series KRC Tank Pad Testing (Color)""
12/9/2009 4:42:49 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
The MTU Communications Collection's catalog (MTU-004) describes this photo series KRC/ISR Field Work" [ISR stands for Institute for Snow Research]."
12/9/2009 4:46:10 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
The MTU Communications Collection's catalog (MTU-004) describes this photo series KRC, G. Gimmestad, Staff, Working with Equipment""
12/9/2009 4:49:18 PM by Anonymous
• I believe it shows Pine Street in Calumet. After some investigative work this summer, I think I can identify the building in the right foreground as my great great grandfather's (August Hilden) saloon so long as the building next to it is the Valvoja (Finnish newspaper) building, which I think it is. I believe the Valvoja building is still standing and used as apartments today. The August Hilden saloon/residence burned down quite some time ago. - Clint Drake
12/9/2011 11:49:51 AM by Anonymous
• The fishing boat is named the 'Vagabond', owned by Jamsen. Barn shaped building is the Jamsen family fishing home, background is the Pilot House from the SS Altadoc. Foreground are two boathouses, Jamsen ice house, and the Isle Royale Dining room building.
12/9/2014 12:01:30 PM by Anonymous
• The tall building in the right hand side of the photo,with the steeple,is the old Episcopal church.
2/1/2007 2:39:18 AM by davef908
• This photo has another view of the old Episcopal church. It is the long tall building in the left center of the picture.
2/1/2007 2:58:32 AM by davef908
• I sent a comment identifying this car in a photo with a fat man next to it (Image Nara 42-001). These appear to be the same car: a 1908 Ford Model N Runabout. Again, this has step plates (no running boards) and no lip on the fenders, 28 x 3 wheels and the water pump under the starting crank handle. The square windows in the side lights indicate late 1907 or 1908. The paint also looks quite glossy so I suspect it is nearly new.
2/10/2007 4:57:23 PM by Anonymous
• This is probably just the exposed head frame for one of the already identified shafthouses. When a mine began work, not much time or money was spent on surface structures. Only the bare minimum was constructed. It was only when a mine gained a fair profit and had money to throw away that they rebuilt and improved their support structures above ground. Thus is the case with this photograph.
2/10/2010 10:11:27 AM by Anonymous
• The shaft behind the group of miners is the New" Allouez #1 shaft. "
2/10/2010 10:21:53 AM by Anonymous
• If this is in fact the S. Kearsarge mine this would be shaft #1.
2/10/2010 10:29:47 AM by Anonymous
• This photo is actually quite remarkable as it shows perfectly the state of Torch Lake in the 1950's and 60's. First in the line of mills is the C&H Reclamation plant, consisting of (from left to right) #2 Regrinding plant, the Flotation plant, and the Leaching plant. The foundations of #1 Regrinding plant lie just south of the complex. Next comes the Calumet mill and the abandoned remains of the Hecla mill next south. Then comes the boiler house with its signature 2 stacks. Of the massive C&H coal shed that once stood on the shore only one crane remains, and traveling just south of this location one will reach the C&H smelter. Beyond that (lying perpendicular to the shore) is the Ahmeek mill, and only a tiny bit further is the Tamarack Recamation plant. Everything beyond that has been abandoned with the exception of the Quincy Reclamation plant, which lies at the southernmost end of the Lake.
2/10/2010 10:36:46 AM by Anonymous
• This shaft is the Calumet #2 shaft.
2/10/2010 10:43:14 AM by Anonymous
• This photo actually looks like it could be the N. Kearsarge #1 shaft, or at least an earlier version of it. In that case, this would be the original shaft house built in the 1880's. The newer shaft house at this location was nearly 10 stories tall and was of modern steel construction.
2/10/2010 10:45:36 AM by Anonymous
• This is actually a photo of #5 shaft of the Tamarack mine.
2/10/2010 10:46:35 AM by Anonymous
• This shaft might be C&H #15; it has the layout of that shaft, and other photos show army soldiers stationed near the shaft during the strike of 1913-14.
2/10/2010 10:48:36 AM by Anonymous
• This piece of equipment is actually the steam-driven hoist for a mine. The drum, which holds and winds coils of steel wire connected to skips down in the shaft it serves, is driven by the slanted steam pistons on either side of the drum. It looks to be the hoist of the Tamarack #5 shaft, but I'm not 100% sure.
2/10/2010 6:04:13 AM by Anonymous
• Though I can't be sure, this looks to be one of C&H's shaft houses. It appears to be the same design.
2/10/2010 6:06:14 AM by Anonymous
• This shaft appears to be the N. Kearsarge #3 shaft, though it could easily be one of the Centennial or S. Kearsarge shafts.
2/10/2010 6:09:39 AM by Anonymous
• According to a similiar photo the shaft shown here is C&H #15.
2/10/2010 7:01:51 AM by Anonymous
• The background of this photo shows the C&H-built High School on the far right, Calumet (or C&H, depending on the era) #2 shaft just left of center, both the Mackinac and Superior engine houses, and several other support buildings of the C&H mine.
2/10/2010 7:05:06 AM by Anonymous
• There are three shafts visible in this photo: Ahmeek #2 (center, foreground), Ahmeek #3/4 (left), and Mohawk #6 (center, background).
2/10/2010 7:13:23 AM by Anonymous
• This is the New" Atlantic mill, built in the late 1890's near Redridge. The "Old" mill was located on the Portage Canal, west of Houghton."
2/10/2010 7:18:12 AM by Anonymous
• Now this photo is of the Old" Atlantic mill, on the Portage Canal. "
2/10/2010 7:19:08 AM by Anonymous
• This photo shows the Atlantic's F" shaft. "
2/10/2010 7:20:53 AM by Anonymous
• This is most likely the C&H smelter, south of Lake Linden.
2/10/2010 7:36:11 AM by Anonymous
• Judging by the multiple tracks, this photo was most likely taken at the foot of the C&H yard in Calumet. The engines in the photo are C&H's early Mason Bogies. The shaft in the background is Hecla #2.
2/10/2010 7:40:31 AM by Anonymous
• This is probably the first rockhouse at C&H #13 shaft (later Osceola #13).
2/10/2010 7:42:01 AM by Anonymous
• The shafts in this photo are as follows (in order from front to back): New" Alloez #1, "New" Allouez #2, Ahmeek #3/4 and the northern shafts of the Mohawk mine. "
2/10/2010 7:46:56 AM by Anonymous
• This is a photo of Isle Royale #2 shaft.
2/10/2010 7:49:23 AM by Anonymous
• This shafthouse is most likely Isle Royale #1.
2/10/2010 7:49:54 AM by Anonymous
• This is the Isle Royale #6 shaft.
2/10/2010 7:51:22 AM by Anonymous
• This shaft is probably Isle Royale #4.
2/10/2010 7:51:49 AM by Anonymous
• The shaft in the background is probably Calumet #2.
2/10/2010 7:53:33 AM by Anonymous
• That would make the shafthouse in this photo Calumet #2.
2/10/2010 7:55:58 AM by Anonymous
• That would make the shafthouse in this photo Calumet #2.
2/10/2010 7:56:13 AM by Anonymous
• The shafts in this photo are as follows (from foreground to background): C&H #15 (left), followed by Hecla #2 and Hecla #3 (right). In the foreground are the C&H offices, followed by (on the other side of Elm st.) the Congregational Church (center) and the C&H Library (right).
2/10/2010 8:04:15 AM by Anonymous
• I believe the shafts shown here are (in order from left to right): Trimountan #2, Trimountain #3, and Trimountain #4.
2/10/2010 9:57:44 AM by Anonymous
• The #2 shaft of the Hancock mine can be seen in the far background, right of St. Joseph's.
2/10/2010 9:59:32 AM by Anonymous
• Looking west from near intersection of Red Jacket road and Mine street with Swedetown in background. Hecla shafthouses 1,2,3,4-5,and 6 along tramway to rockhouse with early iteration of machine shop before later additions. Also Frontenac boilerhouse.Great view of earlier stage of conglomerate mine development.
2/10/2011 12:26:48 AM by Anonymous
• Destroyed by fire in 1929. Site now Parkway Motors car lot.
2/10/2011 12:45:39 AM by Anonymous
• Mr. Bill Clark said the house burned down in 1936.
2/10/2011 7:59:50 PM by Anonymous
• I was stationed there in78 and retired in79 carpenter spic in civil eng
2/10/2012 5:19:53 PM by Anonymous
• My father worked on the street cars, conductor for a number of years
2/10/2013 10:37:16 AM by Anonymous
• It is. It is also the same image as, or very similar to, MTU Neg 00157""
2/10/2016 4:50:03 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
This photograph shows Jim Jackovich (left) and possibly Mark Osborne of the Keweenaw Research Center with a bevameter in a project for TACOM (US Army Tank Automotive Command). A bevameter measures the sheer strength and compaction energy of snow, used for modelling snow relative to vehicle mobility. The equipment was developed at the University of Michigan in the 1950s or 60s.
2/11/2010 4:09:40 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
Photograph shows Ed Adams in the KRC Saab.
2/11/2010 4:19:47 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
Richard (Dick) Bayer, Mechanical Engineering Professor, on a Wolverine test vehicle.
2/11/2010 4:22:54 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2010
Photograph with Glen Simula (front left), Sung Lee (front right), and perhaps Rep. Bob Davis (back right) looking at tank cleats. These cleats were developed by a German Company and tested for the US Army by KRC.
2/11/2010 4:25:51 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
From right to left, Sung Lee, Mark Osborne and either Dr. Ray Kauppila or Dave Sloss, inspecting track pad wear on what looks like a M109 Howitzer.
2/11/2010 4:38:43 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
Ice cleat on a M60 tank.
2/11/2010 4:39:40 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
Ice Cleat on an M60 tank (T142 track).
2/11/2010 4:42:35 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
Glen Simula on a project for tank bushings (a type of bearing).
2/11/2010 4:45:08 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
KRC testing ice cleats on an M60 tank.
2/11/2010 4:45:46 PM by Anonymous
• She would be my 4x's Great Grandmother. -- Carolyn Mackay Gribble
2/11/2012 1:35:37 AM by Anonymous
Name:Brenda F.
MTU Class of:
Maude's daughter, Virginia (I think this is her name), married my grandma's brother. They later divorced. I went to see the Titanic exhibit in Grand Rapids, MI yesterday, 2/10/13. I find this story absolutely amazing and continue to look for books that have more information about her. Thanks for referencing a book above. I will see if I can get it through my local library. Not sure where she resided in her later years, but I was disappointed to hear she only passed in 1984. I graduated from high school in 1985 and would have loved to meet her to hear her story.
2/11/2013 10:11:17 PM by Anonymous
• Thank you, thank you for posting this. This image is so important to our family.
2/11/2013 11:24:54 AM by Anonymous
• FIRST NAME: SILVIO LAST NAME: ZUINETHNICITY: ITALIAN NORTHLAST PLACE OF RESIDENCE: CURTAROLO-ITALIADATE OF ARRIVAL: MARCH 26, 1914AGE ARRIVAL: 22 YEAR GENDER : MARITAL-STATUS: SSHIP OF TRAVEL: EUROPAPORT OF DEPARTURE: GENOVA-ITALIA

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2/12/2008 7:36:16 PM by Anonymous
• The reopening of one of the most prominent landmarks in Calumet, the Michigan House, will take place Friday, July 14. The transfer of the property to Pellberg, Inc., a locally owned corporation, was announced today by Willard Paulson, Manager of the property for Pellberg.Paulson stated that renovations and extensive maintenace have been performed by the new owner over the past few months to provide the public with a place providing a most pleasant atmosphere. The first floor area of the Michigan House, contains the famous Bosch bar with its large, original Bavarian scene oil mural and a newly decorated entertainment area.The dining room will feature reasonably priced, man-sized meals. It is the intent of the management to provide special services to groups, organizations, and private parties. Music for dancing will be provided five nights a week during the summer months and on the weekends at other times. Customers will be greeted by waitresses in Bavarian costumes to complement the bar decor and mural. The Michigan House also houses eight apartments, which will be redecorated as required along with the outside of the building in the future. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - Wednesday July 12, 1972, page 5.]
2/12/2009 1:05:03 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• One of the most formidable football teams ever sponsored by an independent organization in the Copper Country was the Quincy One and All Football squad of 1911. What is notable about the group, according to William Towsey of Hancock, the former Quincy miner who owns the picture from which the newspaper photo was taken, is that the entire team was composed of former residents of Cornwall or persons who were descendents of native Cornwallian ancestry.Some sixty years ago, Bill Towsey was a member of this organization, the reason for his possessing the picture.He recalls that it was Carl Silven who took the picture and that at one time he had his studio on Reservation Street, approximately where the Gartner warehouse is now, the former Venice Cafe. All members of the Quincy team worked for the Old Reliable Co. They were mainly underground employees but working in the shops or on surface was no deterrent to belonging.Actually the game played was a sort of English soccer. Towsey recalls that there were five teams which made up the football league of the day. These were Mohawk, Calumet, Baltic and Painesdale. Towsey says the that mining companies did not sponsor the squads, but the incentive to start and maintain a team had to come from the unit or community itself.On various occasions there were six mining captains who were members of the squad, Kendall, Jacobs, Mauders, Sampson, Francis and Williams. [Excerpt from a Daily Mining Gazette Greensheet Article - July 1, 1972.]
2/12/2009 1:19:46 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This culvert would have been used along US-45 at German Country Road. Clear Creek ran through it. The barn in the background belonged to the Toivo Mattson farm.
2/12/2010 6:11:31 PM by Anonymous
• Orrin W. Robinson, of Chassell, Houghton County, was born in Claremont, August 12, 1834, where he acquired a district school education. At the age of 19, he moved to Ontonagon, Michigan where he remained for two years, employed in the mines and then started for Green Bay, WI, making an overland trip with snow shoes, while the provisions and blankets were carried by dog-train. He camped in the woods at night, taking about two weeks to make the trip. From Green Bay he went to Kossuth County, Iowa, returning to Hancock, MI, he engaged as receiving and shipping clerk for the Quincy mine, which occupation he followed 12 years. In 1873, he organized the Sturgeon River Lumber Co., and built mills at Hancock, which were removed to Chassell in the fall of 1887. He was superintendent of the poor for Houghton county; was a delegate to the national convention in 1892; served in the House in 1895 and the Senate in 1897. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1899. Closely identified with all the public improvements of his district, he witnessed the change from a frontier wilderness to a civilized and prosperous country. [Michigan Historical Collection, Vol. 32]
2/12/2010 9:14:39 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Looks like the DSSA depot in Houghton. In 2007 this building had Mattila construction in it. Right next to the new Portage library.
2/13/2008 9:31:54 AM by Anonymous
• I was at the 665th from 64-67 ANFPS-26 Height. Married a local girland were still here. Married 42 years now (must be the long winters than do it)
2/13/2010 8:11:21 AM by Anonymous
• it looks like it could be the building be the warehouse on Red Jacket Rd?
2/13/2010 8:13:41 PM by bjeffery
• The rockhouse on the left would be Calumet and Hecla's Osceola #15
2/13/2012 7:44:40 PM by yooper557
• I beleive that this is the remains of the Handcock Chemical Company that made explosives.
2/13/2015 6:52:31 AM by Anonymous
• I have a similar version of this picture, the date is in the teens but the last number is rubbed off from where it was mounted. This picture was taken either between 1910 and late 1911 or 1913 and 1916, because my grandfather is seated second from the bottom row, on the right and he was not in the country between late 1911 and early 1913. He later volunteered to be part of the fire/rescue team and I have somewhere some of the pictures of the team and certificates he earned, one picture I have is Mine Rescue Crew [Image #:MS033-002-024-001] in these archives. A similar picture hanging in the hoist when we were there last in '96 or '97. The people at the hoist didn't care much about my mother being able to ID some of the people in the picture for some reason and since my mother passed on.
2/14/2008 5:49:15 PM by gsiciliano
• It appears that another shaft is visible in the background, which would be either the Ahmeek #2 shaft or Mohawk #5; most likely the former.
2/14/2010 5:25:58 PM by Anonymous
• This is not a broken mast, it is the flag pole at Fort Wilkins.
2/14/2010 8:47:04 PM by mladair
• By their uniforms, the men appear to be members of the Grand Army of the Republic. This is likely the funeral of a Civil War veteran, or Decoration Day (Memorial Day) ceremonies.
2/14/2010 8:50:56 PM by mladair
• The details are hard to see in this resolution, but it appears they are members of the Grand Army of the Republic.
2/14/2010 8:53:50 PM by mladair
• The last Supreme Convention of the Daughter's of St. George was held in Providence, R.I. in August of 1968 at the Biltmore Hotel. It was hostessed by the Perseverance Lodge, Olneyville, R.I. I attended this convention with my grandmother & aunts who were members. The Perseverance Lodge disbanded in 1974 and as the order, their original charter was burned. (I watched my grandmother doit, as she said it was her duty) I have pictures of the Daughter's at that final convention if anyone is interested I would be happy to share. witchyb@embarqmail.comI believe the only living member is my aunt.
2/15/2008 10:15:42 PM by Anonymous
• BEAUTIFUL AIRSHIP FLIGHT. HORACE WILD ASCENDS AGAIN IN THE COMET BEFORE THOUSANDS.Horace Wild and the Bayeradorfer-Yager airship made good again yesterday afternoon. The Comet appeared for her second flight shortly before 6 o'clock and after some preliminary tinkering with the engine, she got away in good shape. Wild headed out toward the lake and then swooped back over Houghton. He went west a block or two and then did a figure eight around St. Ignatius Church spire. The weather conditions were ideal yesterday, but the engine was in trouble due to poor gasoline and Wild remained up only 6 minutes. He attained an altitude of a little better than 280 feet.The descent was spectacular as when the aviator decided to come down he darted toward the earth like a kite and was received by the waiting hands of the crowd, righting the ship to an even keel as he struck. This landing was as light as that of a toy balloon and it was greeted with loud cheering.Wild and George Yager are more than pleased that they have been able to get away twice in the Houghton atmospheric conditions, which are pretty breezy and mightily cold in the upper air. They will not attempt flights in a wind of much more than 5 miles per hour and would cheerfully have kept the ship under canvass all week had not the wind abated. [Daily Mining Gazette Article September 25, 1909.]
2/15/2010 10:28:24 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Actually, this is the re-built Hancock #1 shaft. The tram, however, is still connedcted to the Hancock mill below.
2/15/2010 7:25:29 PM by Anonymous
• Correction: this is actually the steel shaft house of the Norrie Iron mine. Another print shows this same shaft house. It located in the William Nara Collection, print #42-104
2/15/2010 7:33:36 PM by Anonymous
• The shaft in the background actually looks like the Mohawk #4 shaft, making these miners of the Mohawk Mining Co.
2/15/2010 7:36:46 PM by Anonymous
• This is actually a very nice photo of Tamarack #5 shaft construction. The Red Jacket shaft of C&H can be seen in the background.
2/15/2010 7:38:30 PM by Anonymous
• This is actually the Tamarack #5 shaft.
2/15/2010 7:38:52 PM by Anonymous
• Shafthouse #5 of the Tamarack mine, that is.
2/15/2010 9:48:22 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this is actually shaft #4 of the Mohawk mine.
2/15/2010 9:50:19 PM by Anonymous
• If this is the Douglass House lawn - doesn't this photo need to pre-date 1911? Wouldn't it be from the late 1890s? Before the front addition? And that building across the street was not there in 1911 either.
2/15/2011 9:53:43 AM by Anonymous
• This was used as the cover image for Larry Lankton's book, Hollowed Ground, published by Wayne State University Press in 2010.
2/15/2012 7:47:58 AM by Anonymous
• A detail of this image was was used on the cover of Larry Lankton's book, Hollowed Ground, published by Wayne State University Press in 2010.
2/15/2012 7:48:36 AM by Anonymous
• Steeple in background is actually the National church. This steeple was removed in the 1980s (possibly 1988). The steeple on the Norwegian Lutheran church was removed in 1961. This information from Joseph Mihal.
2/16/2007 3:28:40 PM by Anonymous
• It was Grand Finale" Sunday for the Keweenaw Central Railway, as a standing-room-only trainload of excursionists stood behind the last train crew above Lake Linden. Left to right: Attorney Richard Kedzior, counsel for the line; brakeman E A. Robinson, St. Paul, K.D. accountant; engineer Clinton Jones, Jr., who is also president, and Charles Sincock retired vice president of the Copper Range Railroad. The line terminated operations after five years of operating 13 mile, 75 minute excursions which brought it national respect and thousands of annual visitor-riders. "Last Run" passengers came specially from Milwaukee, Chicago, Duluth, St. Paul, Madison and Detroit. Abandonment plans for the Copper Range line have forced termination of the K.C. "Copper Country Route" leaving the Upper Peninsula with no other standard guage passenger train, nor another of the K.C. breed in sight. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - Monday, October 11, 1971.]"
2/16/2009 1:06:06 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This - I believe - is the Wolverine #4 shaft.
2/16/2010 10:48:02 AM by Anonymous
• Correction: this is NOT the Wolverine mine. It is in fact a shaft of the Mohawk mine. I'm not sure which one, though its probably #5 or #6. It even has a better chance of being #5 because #6 had a much larger hoist than what this photo shows. Also, the stone building's (what I think is the hoist) large arch matches the one in photo #:Acc-400-12-13-1988-01-08-10, titled 1913-1914 Strike", which is for sure the Mohawk #5 shaft. "
2/16/2010 10:51:30 AM by Anonymous
• In the foreground of this picture is shaft #1 of the S. Kearsarge mine. In the background are then shafts #4 and #3, respectively, of the Wolverine mine. N. Kearsarge lies beyond that. Centennial is not visible in this photo.
2/16/2010 10:53:30 AM by Anonymous
• This is my Grandfather Harold Grams. Unfortunately, the words on the pic are not readable. I wonder if anyone has a scanned copy with more clarity that they would be willing to email me.ThanksMary Ann wycoff@frontier.com
2/16/2012 11:52:17 AM by Anonymous
• The bluff in the background looks like where the American mine wasnot the St. Clair.
2/17/2009 3:55:03 PM by Anonymous
• I really like this picture, it is of my great-great grandmother. I really wish there were more of her though. I've searched all over her, read every available biography of her and I've still only come up with 2 pictures.
2/17/2010 4:53:47 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Copper Range Railroad. Unfortunately the photo is reversed.
2/17/2012 5:40:50 PM by yooper557
• The middle image of the 3 below is actually Copper City with a view of the old coal unloading trestle. The photo is also reversed, in fact all 3 of them are reversed. The right image below would be coming up St Louis hill I beleive it called, before the junction with the line to Copper City
2/17/2012 5:46:06 PM by yooper557
• Copper Range Railroad. Both photos are reversed. One is view over Hungarian Creek and the other view is the train about to cross M26 north of Dollar Bay. This was the last train to/from Gay
2/17/2012 5:53:14 PM by yooper557
Name:Neil Harri
MTU Class of:
They did mispell the Isaac Harri name by adding an O to end.I have seen another list of deaths from this fire where his name was mispelled as Harrer.
2/17/2013 10:06:43 AM by ilmayksi
• I was stationed at CAF Station in 1965-66. I worked in fps90 and fps26. I remember a sgt Tipton and a civilian tech named Dewey Pike. I loved the area. I met my wife who was visiting her sister. My wife was from Columbus Ohio. I have visited twice since we were married in 1966.I loved visiting the copper mines and have read a lot about Michigan copper.
2/17/2014 3:23:35 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
This is the Portage Ship Canal's U.S. Life- Saving Service boat used in the 1913 rescue crew of 24 from the L.C. Waldo (along with Eagle Harbor's LSS).Champion" (Boat No. 961) was Station Portage’s 36ft. McLellan Type E motor lifeboat, which was completed and delivered in 1910. It is docked at the LSS station, Hancock MI out by today's McLain State Park. The station house is in the background. The canal was widened in 1935 and this location is now in the canal water with some land still next to the Park. "
2/17/2015 9:15:18 AM by Anonymous
• This is an Adolph Isler photo. The rail line is on the bridge and the First National Bank on the northwest corner of Quincy and Reservation Streets in Hancock has not yet been constructed, presumably dating this image to 1886 to 1888.
2/17/2015 9:24:43 PM by John Haeussler
• The Rice Memorial Clinic off the Houghton Canal Road opened in 1956 after the building was given as a gift by the late John W. Rice, publisher of the Daily Mining Gazette, and Mrs. Rice, in memory of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Rice. [Daily Mining Gazette Greensheet Article - July 31, 1971.]
2/18/2009 8:52:14 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This image is reversed. - Jeremiah Mason
2/18/2014 3:35:07 PM by Anonymous
• In Squid House, enthusiasm in scholastic and recreational activities has served to build interhouse fellowship and has caused Squid to become rated high among the houses on campus. Be it scholastic or athletic, Squid can boast participation in every form of campus function. Football, ping pong, basketball, and bowling are just a few of the sports in which Squid has had a part. In scholarship, the house of Squid encourages diligent study and hard hours of work on the part of all its members. [1968 Keweenawan, page 197]
2/19/2008 8:34:41 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Mu Lambda Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon was founded as a colony on January 7, 1968, with twenty-eight original members. Since becoming affiliated with international T.K.E. on May 3, 1969, Mu Lambda has grown to fifty-eight members. We believe we should maintain an attitude of dignity and respect toward other fraternities, while assuming a friendly and respectful outlook toward non-fraternity men. We believe that the essential elements of true brotherhood, in conduct as well as in name, are love, charity, and esteem. Our goals for the next year include obtaining a house, concentrating on campus positions, and most important, maintaining scholarship. [1969 Keweenawan page 204]
2/19/2008 8:43:19 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The shafthouse construction was begun in 1908.
2/19/2008 8:45:35 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• 2008 is the centennial of this building's construction.
2/19/2008 8:46:32 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• I like the barber pole in this photograph.
2/19/2008 8:47:20 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This is a pretty run-down old building.
2/19/2008 8:47:59 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• I'm not sure where this church was located. Perhaps near the Dave's Amoco/BP gas station?
2/19/2008 8:49:05 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• During the school year of 1970-71, Tau Kappa Epsilon was very busy taking part in school activities. Tekes placed high in intramural sports for the third year in a row. A third place finish in overall Winter Carnival along with second place in snow statue competition shows the determination that also brought first place in Beauty and Beast to TKE for the last three years. The chapter house at 1304 College Ave. took on many improvements including repainting of the first floor. Landscaping and general improvements are in store for next year.Tekes believe they should maintain respect and dignity toward other fraternities while still assuming a friendly outlook toward non-fraternity men. We believe that the essential elements of brotherhood, in conduct as well as in name, are love, charity and esteem. Goals for next year inclue improving public relations, maintaining scholarship and improving our competition in intramural sports. [1971 Keweenawan, page 161]
2/19/2008 8:55:42 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• A colony of Tau Kappa Epsilon was founded on Michigan Tech campus on January 7, 1968. On May 3, 1969 the colony was granted chapter status when its fifty members became officially recognized with the international T.K.E.Since becoming a Chapter one year ago TKE has obtained a fine fraternity house which has absorbed much of their time. They still are strong competitors in all campus activities while placing much stress on grade point which calls for a special group of men.Tekes believe they should maintain respect and dignity toward other fraternities while still assuming a friendly and respectful outlook toward non-fraternity men. We believe that the essential elements of true brotherhood, in conduct as well as in name, are love, charity, and esteem. Our goals for the upcoming year include general house improvements, improving public relations, working on intramural sports and maintaining scholarship. [1970 Keweenawan, page 210]
2/19/2008 9:17:16 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Colony - April 11, 1968...social fraternity...chartered - May 3, 1969...one year - obtained house...goals: mature adulthood...membership - personal worth and character...house repairs - goofing around...hobo parade - do your thing...place in winter carnival...active pledges...Teke is tough...10 cents spirits" round the clock...honor alumni-founder's day weekend...waupautouoli...mama balya - best friend - Hercules...public service weekend...satellite runs...fat beach - let it all hang out...first in beauty and beast - five years running...Bay Cliff Health Camp...go-go-B&B...t g's ...Teke Library Bar (tenders)...halloween party - retarded children...spring massacre...fat jack - vacationing...Oshkosh softball (?) tournament...Copper Country tours...theme parties...used car lot - cycle club. [1972 Keweenawan, page 241]"
2/19/2008 9:25:49 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This photo was taken on Oak Street in Red Jacket, at 8th Street. The building behind the snowplow is the Arlington Hotel. - Jeremiah Mason
2/19/2008 9:52:38 AM by Anonymous
• The Calumet Conglomerate Lode plunged almost 6000 feet beneath the surface along an outcropping that extended almost two miles long. By the time this sketch was drawn, this rich lode produced more than 40% of the native copper mined from the entire district (Dorr, Geology of Michigan, 1970).
2/19/2009 10:07:29 AM by Anonymous
• Lac Labelle smelter, I believe...
2/19/2010 12:14:43 PM by Anonymous
• Resolute Mine was located between Delaware and Mandan.
2/2/2011 3:58:28 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this is actually the remains of the Robbins/West Vein mine, just west of the Phoenix. There is another shot of this looking east, before the building in the foreground was removed. KF
2/20/2008 10:11:52 AM by Anonymous
• After the 1937 fire, the building was repaired without a second floor. It was a bar called 'The Bucket' or 'The Bucket of Blood'. The bar was on the first floor and the basement had a bowling alley.
2/20/2009 10:14:28 AM by Anonymous
• The building in the rear was a warehouse. The ice house was to the right of the warehouse (as viewed here) and was hidden in this photo. To the right of the steps (wood at that time) was the entrance to the meat market which was located in the basement.
2/20/2009 2:25:06 PM by Anonymous
• On Robert Emmett Foley's birthday, he would hire a band to play and march the streets of Eagle Harbor. Photo taken in front of the Foley and Smith store.
2/20/2009 2:29:10 PM by Anonymous
• On his birthday, Robert Emmett Foley (center), would hire a marching band to celebrate. The building on the right is the back of the Foley and Smith store.
2/20/2009 3:21:12 PM by Anonymous
• It was great seeing the picture of the Fish Bowl and CAD/CAM lab. I was a student lab assistant working with Dan DeBeaubian and Cynthia MacDonald at that time 82-83. After I graduated in '84 with by BS in Computer Science, Denny McKaig hired me as a direct MTU employee working for him in support of this lab and managing the lab assistants. My office was in a corner of a room at the front of the building off the lobby.I worked there until 1986 when Rockwell International called my office one day and lured me away. Rockwell Automotive was in the process of deploying the mainframe CADAM solution on an IBM VM operating system at multiple locations and needed someone with this experience, which was in short supply. This was the same system IBM had granted to Tech.From this start as a Lab Assistant in the MEEM, 26 years later I now have global responsibility for Engineering and Quality applications at Meritor, Inc, which is the successor company to Rockwell Automotive. Those student jobs can pan out!
2/20/2012 12:31:58 PM by Anonymous
• No, this is not the Hollywood. The Hollywood was on the same street, one block west. It was right across the street from where the Copper Crown Motel is. I remember it because when I was a kid my Dad took me there. It burned down. The owner's name was Burbacher.
2/20/2015 2:16:27 PM by Anonymous
• Was station Calumet ads in sept 1967. We always said if bridge @ Houton broke we'd be out in the middle of the lake
2/20/2015 2:52:30 PM by Anonymous
• This image was scanned from a postcard belonging to Tom Roberts and a copy negative was made.
2/21/2012 1:18:03 PM by cpomazal
• The locomotive in the picture is Q&TLRR #3. The picture was taken behind the stamp mill in Mason. The covered water tank can be seen in the background.
2/21/2012 1:24:28 PM by cpomazal
• HO Scale model of the same building by Chuck Pomazal.

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2/21/2012 1:31:49 PM by cpomazal
• Historically, this shop in the Calumet High School/Manual Training School was known as the Forge Shop. - Jeremiah Mason
2/21/2012 2:21:30 PM by Anonymous
• This is the school in Wolverine. - Jeremiah Mason
2/21/2012 4:04:28 PM by Anonymous
Name:Chris
MTU Class of:2015
What is that trestle in the foreground for? It looks like stamp sand piled up underneath it on the left...but doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the surface plant. Any ideas?
2/21/2015 11:47:04 AM by Anonymous
• I would like to know some of the people in the photo, as my grandfather and father also worked in the mines, I have so few pics of them.
2/22/2008 1:03:48 PM by Anonymous
• The close of the work day on Friday, Nov. 14 at the Calumet and Lake Linden stations of the Soo Line Railroad marked the termination of those two depots" and the end of agency services at both locations. The end came after 96 years of continuous service to the treaveling and shipping public. The conclusion came through necessity. Due to the closing of the Calumet and Hecla Division of UOP there lately has been little freight shipping from either stations. As for passenger traffic that came to an end years ago in Lake Linden and on March 8, 1968 for the Copper Country Limited in Calumet.Calumet first became a shipping site on the old Mineral Range in 1873 and it had continuous activity until Nov. 14. Lake Linden came later.At one time in its history the Keweenaw Peninsula featured 23 station agents and this did not include the locations along the Houghton County Traction Co. line. Three railroads were invloved in the number. the following stations were operating in the 1905-15 era; Hancock, Dollar Bay, Hubbell, Lake Linden, Boston, Osceola, Calumet including Red Jacket, Calumet Junction, Laurium, Ahmeek, Mohawk, Gay, Ojibway, Phoenix, Delaware, Mandan and probably ofthers. It will be noticed that all of these are north of Portage Lake. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - November 17, 1969.]"
2/23/2009 2:47:37 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• 1887 Nov 17 Thursday-- The Hancock Chemical Company had a terrible explosion yesterday morning killing Wm LAPP, Jr. of Hancock leaves a wife; Charles BARKELL; Thomas THOMPSON both of Ripley ; Timothy CROWLEY of Grover; Wm KING of Tamarack town ; and Wm RENO of Woodside. The last 5 men were young men ranging from 15 years thru 18 years. Wm LAPP, Jr. and Charles BARKELL were buried in Hancock cemetery. Timothy CROWLEY 16 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael CROWLEY and Win KING were buried at Lake Linden.
2/23/2015 7:20:38 PM by Anonymous
Name:J Ryding
MTU Class of:1993
I believe this is a photo of the funeral prosession for Joseph Gregoire, 1895.
2/24/2010 8:11:04 AM by Anonymous
• Shafts slope about 70 degrees which is the dip of the lode, and the shaft road" (railroad track) is carried up about 100 feet above the surface inside the shaft house to permit dumping of ore into the shaft-house bins. These bins provide surge capacity for loading ore into cars (shown). Steep slope of roof on left follows slope of shaft and shaft road. Ore skips and man cars which run on the shaft track are hoisted and lowered by large hoisting engines which are located in hoist houses (beyond picture to right). Steel cables run from the hoist drum over pulley stands (shown) and then over head sheaves inside highest part of shaft house. In 1911 all hoists in area were steam-driven; modern hoists are electric. [Information taken from note taped to bottom of picture.]"
2/24/2011 10:10:02 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The picture is not a scene from Alston. It may be Laird 4Hers at another site with their entries. The Laird Dairy Days were held at the Town Hall grounds in Alston.
2/24/2011 1:14:49 AM by tomhiltunen
• From: Bill Haller
In speaking with area resident Edward Voght, the two-story building on the left appears to be the dispensary for Isle Royale, which his sons live in today (2009).Gundlach Road runs from Paradise Road past the dispensary, continues in front of the No. 2 shafthouse (today only a foundation), and terminates at the former No. 1 site, today the fire station.
2/25/2009 1:47:33 PM by Anonymous
• is #15 south of the armory, between Calumet Ave. and Rockland St.?
2/25/2010 8:23:05 AM by bjeffery
• I was the supply officer, at the 665th., from Sept. 66 through November 67.I remember the large amount of young recently married personnel, who arrived as newlyweds and left as parents. One of the ways to keep warm on those cold and snowy nights before cable.
2/25/2011 5:36:07 PM by Anonymous
• today being the 25/02/2010 in Birmingham England ..we have once again set in motion, the building of the society known as the Sons of St George. we have a humble number to start with , ten brethren who are strong and true to the original brothers. we are going to make this society once more strong and true, i am at the moment gathering the old words and bylaws that made the S.O.S.G the commited frat that it was.i will write again when i have more info. write your e-mail address here if you have anything for me we are interested in regalia and words..
2/26/2010 12:42:28 PM by Anonymous
• If this is Ingot and Elevation, that can't be the #2 shaft. The #2 shaft is a considerable distance north of that intersection.
2/26/2015 7:17:46 PM by Anonymous
• This is outside of Boston Location.
2/26/2015 7:20:28 PM by Anonymous
• This is my uncle Oliver. 2/15/1917 - 5/5/1987. Worked for the DSS&A and Soo Line for many years as a 'section man'.
2/27/2009 8:23:03 PM by Anonymous
• A torrential rain that fell in sheets" and continued for at least two hours inundated much of this Keweenaw Bay community Monday evening and left in its ebb the fear that the village's water supply may have been polluted.Residents said the rainfall began at about 6:30 p.m. and before it ended the downtown streets were under three to five feet of water. Parts of streets were washed away, business places flooded and several automobiles damaged as they were immersed and swirled about in the rushing water.Portions of the hamlet were flooded last month when a rare occurrence called a seiche - a type of inland tidal wave - rolled into Keweenaw Bay.[Taken from a July 17, 1968 edition of the Daily Mining Gazette.]"
2/27/2009 8:41:24 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:Lindsey Collier
MTU Class of:
I remember it well, I can even see the house we lived in.Lindsey C. CollierMSgt USAFRet
2/27/2012 10:55:08 AM by Anonymous
• Appears to be taken in front of the Agent's mansion.
2/27/2013 3:22:49 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is also in the Michigan Tech Centennial on page 64
2/28/2008 3:36:03 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is also in the Michigan Tech Centennial on page 64.
2/28/2008 3:38:05 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is also in the Michigan Tech Centennial on page 64.
2/28/2008 3:39:45 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is also in the Michigan Tech Centennial on page 64.
2/28/2008 3:40:27 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is also in the Michigan Tech Centennial on page 64.
2/28/2008 3:41:35 PM by Anonymous
• This is on Reservation Street in Hancock, walking from Quincy Street toward Hancock Street. Also see MS042-999-Z-616D.
2/28/2015 12:37:10 PM by John Haeussler
• To Anna Hradel '60. I may be wrong but Dr. McMillan’s computers were Heathkit (of Benton Harbor, MI) vacuum tube analog computers. They weren’t large, by the standards of that day, and could be considered “deck top” models, if you had little else to put on your desk. They had a sloping workspace in front where the operational amplifiers and other electrons could be plugged together - analog programming of the day. The sloping front leveled out at the top-back to support two or three rows of exposed vacuum tubes. 12AX7 or 12AU7 dual-triodes, I believe. They were the active part of the operational amplifiers.The university had another vacuum tube computer at the time that may have been the computer the person at your reunion mentioned. And, it may have been in Dr. McMillan’s lab in 1960 but ended up, almost completely unused and where I remember it, in the EE department. That computer was a Bendix G-15 ding, ding digital computer (the ding, ding is mine and will be explained later). Attached is a picture of a high school senior attending the annual spring engineering show, pretending to know what he’s doing on an IBM keypunch machine, and sitting in front of the G-15. Note on the top-front the only input/output device, a paper tape reader/writer. There is also a picture of that computer on page 43 of the 1960 Keweenawan (left) with Dr. Byers of the physics department. The caption says it’s an analog computer, but I'm sure it’s not. Meters were the output devices for analog computers then but I’m sure the meters shown in the two pictures are for monitoring the power supplies, a common “feature” of digital computers of that day.The G-15 was Bendix’s last vacuum computer, if not their only one. Their next computer was the transistor model, the G-20. The only storage in the G-15 was a magnetic drum; everything had to be stored there, even partial results. There was no “accumulator.” To add two 10-digit numbers, for example, the machine had to wait for the drum to rotate until the least significant digits of the two numbers were under the read-head. It’d read the numbers, add them together, then wait until the drum had rotated around to where the least significant digit of the answer was to be stored, and store it. Then, it’d wait for the second least significant digits to come by and operate on them. Etc. You can imagine how slow it was. And, that brings me to the “ding, ding.” I didn’t know it until I started working for Control Data Corp. (CDC) in 1965 but the G-15 had a bell. A bell something like those old school bells but not big. Every time a certain operation occurred in the computer (single digit add perhaps,) the bell would ring. Often, walking down the hall at CDC, pass the training room with their Bendix G-15, I would hear, “ding, …, ding, ding, ….. ding.” A similar device on a modern digital computer would have to be a microwave antenna!There you are, everything and much, much more than you ever wanted to know about vacuum tube computers at Mich. Tech in the early 1960s.
2/29/2012 1:53:27 PM by Anonymous
• Over the past six months residents of Hancock and Houghton have seen a strange vehicle churning around in the Portage Canal and then lumbering powerfully ashore in the vicinity of the Portage Lake Marina. What they have viewed is a five ton LARC V amphibious vehicle that the Office of Emergency Measures of Houghton County was able to obtain free as excess Federal government property.The vehicle, often referred to as a duck" has been used to clear the channel of logs and debris. The vehicle was valued by the government at $44,207 and was obtained from the 753rd Transportation Company, US Marines, Green Bay.The Sheriff's department has equiped the vehicle with a radio to aid in rescue work and it is also being set up for fire fighting along the shoreline.The amphibious vehicle can travel at speeds approaching nine knotts in the water and 30 m.p.h. on land. It can travel as far as a 40 mile radius in water and 250 mile radius on land.When it arrived, the vehicle had only registered a total of 473 miles. The duck's 300 brake horsepower diesel engine can pull it up a 60 per cent grade with ease and it only uses 13.8 gallons of fuel per hour. The machine can handle a load up to 10,000 pounds and carry 20 people. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - Wednesday, October 17, 1973, page 3]"
2/3/2009 11:16:00 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
I am researching this station and the Coast Guardsmen.. need info.. if you have any please contact me. barbkoski@gmail.com
2/3/2013 12:00:39 PM by Anonymous
Name:M Worrall

This is the Mineral Range roundhouse at Mass City on the South Range branch.
2/3/2014 9:16:16 PM by Anonymous
• Keweenaw Central depot at Mandan
2/3/2014 9:19:39 PM by Anonymous
Name:M Worrall

This is on the Munising Marquette & Southeastern (LS&I).
2/3/2014 9:35:00 PM by Anonymous
Name:M Worrall

Stager is on the Chicago & Northwestern where the branch to Crystal Falls leaves the line to Ironwood. Should read Palatka""
2/3/2014 9:50:15 PM by Anonymous
Name:M Worrall

This wreck occurred on 12-14-1951. See ICC report 3456.
2/3/2014 9:57:56 PM by Anonymous
• One of the area's earliest snowmobiles?
2/4/2008 9:27:38 AM by Anonymous
• This building also appears in the background of MTU Neg 00312, showing Lake Linden firefighters training. http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=608645
2/4/2009 10:44:18 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The building in the background appears to the be home of Joseph Bosch. See MTU Neg 00286 http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=601410
2/4/2009 10:45:19 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Image is definitely reversed. - Martin Bacher, MTU Class of 1969
2/4/2012 8:47:56 PM by Anonymous
Name:Lois M.
MTU Class of:
Just discovered the archives." Wonderful- especially for those of us who have a long history of visiting the U.P."
2/4/2015 8:28:45 PM by Anonymous
• My great great grandfather survived this fire. Tried lighting candles but they would not light due to lack of oxygen. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033781/1895-09-13/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1836&index=14&rows=20&words=Harrington+Michael&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Michigan&date2=1922&proxtext=michael+harrington&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
2/4/2016 2:07:37 AM by Anonymous
• Photograph also appears on page 36 of Michigan Tech Centennial book.
2/5/2008 2:41:09 PM by Anonymous
• The Bethlehem Lutheran Church purchased this rectory. It served as a Lutheran parsonage until 1981. Rev. and Mrs. Langseth raised their seven children in this facility. The eldest daughter, Debbie, while taking architectural drawing at high school discovered the servents" stairway which had been covered over by a kitchen wall and linen closet. The discovery was made about 1971. [From a note attached to the back of the photo written by R. V. Langseth 18 Feb 1997]"
2/5/2008 9:21:57 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Shortly after the turn of the century a group of enterprising citizens of the Houghton area formed a stock association called the Houghton Mill and Elevator Company.The company had about 200 share holders during its short lived operation. Prominent people such as Paul Swift, Corbin Douglass, J. H. Rice and John T. MacNamara were active in the company's management.The mill was constructed in 1919 and went into operation in 1920. The mill incorporated two milling units: A 25-barrel mill for rye and barley flour and a 50 barrel mill for processing white wheat flour.The mill closed its operation and the business and property was sold to Milo Slagg in 1925. Slagg continued milling white wheat flour until 1922 when competition with some of the larger mid-west mills made it unprofitable to continue. Barley and rye flour was milled occasionally during the next 30 years. Slagg passed away in 1949 and Mrs. Slagg managed the business until 1960 when she sold out to Curtis Eggleston of Houghton. He operated the feed mill business until 1969. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - Tuesday, November 6, 1973]
2/5/2009 10:03:37 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The men are involved in some type of training. Although this may be to improve their skills and fitness to fight fires, one wonders if they may also be preparing for a firemens tournament. The men are not dressed in firefighting clothing, such as in image MS042-042-T-549http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=597039#Instead, the men appear to be dressed in 'gym clothes' which are much more similar to image MS051-041-002-001http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=664377#
2/5/2009 10:28:21 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• It appears that these men are pulling a two-wheeled cart -- with a beer keg?! Maybe taking something from the Bosch brewing facility one block up?
2/5/2009 10:29:22 AM by Anonymous
• By examining the high-resolution image, one can make out the letters RJFD" on the hat of the man in the center of the photo.These men are dressed similarly to Lake Linden firefighters who are training on the streets in their 'gym clothes' - image MTU Neg 00312http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=608645"
2/5/2009 10:31:49 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The white building on the right is probably the Houghton flour mill.
2/5/2009 11:40:44 AM by Anonymous
• This is the pocket ore dock that was built in Skanee.
2/5/2009 2:46:31 PM by Anonymous
• This is probably Centennial No. 3 Shaft, judging from the skip road angle (its equal to that of the calumet conglomerate). Plus the houses in the background are still standing off of Amygdaloid. The waste dump to the north of the structure was leveled for the Homestake mill.
2/6/2007 5:30:58 PM by djoeyd114
• This shaft, though owned by the Mohawk Mining Co., is actually part of the Wolverine mine. It is either shaft #3 or #4; most likely #4 due to the apparent addition of a newer hoist building(the stone building, with arches, on the far left of the photo) and the layout of all support buildings left of the shaft house.
2/6/2010 9:10:16 AM by Anonymous
• This is a photo of the Mohawk #2 shaft.
2/6/2010 9:11:08 PM by Anonymous
• This mine is the Ahmeek #3/4 shaft house prior to the addition of a second hoist house.
2/6/2010 9:18:06 AM by Anonymous
• This picture shows the N. Kearsarge #4 mine; you can also spot the rockhouse of N. Kearsarge #3 in the right background.
2/6/2010 9:20:46 AM by Anonymous
• This shaft is actually Tamarack Jr. #1.
2/6/2010 9:22:46 AM by Anonymous
• The mine shown in this photo is the N. Kearsarge #1 shaft; in the background the N. Kearsarge #3 shaft is visible.
2/6/2010 9:24:42 AM by Anonymous
• Correct, this is the North Kearsarge #1 location. Note the cable stand to the left of the rockhouse that supports the cables which pass over the collar house on their way to the hoist. This was one of only a handful of surface structure configurations to be laid out in this fashion on the Keweenaw, the best know probably being the Ahmeek 3/4 shaft-rockhouse. Also, the building to the left appears in more recent photographs showing the latest version of the rockhouse. Dirk Van Appledorn
2/6/2011 3:07:22 AM by Anonymous
• The building in the center of the pic is the Methodist church. It had a multi tiered steeple. scot turnquist
2/7/2009 10:17:52 PM by Anonymous
• I guess, I visited there last May 2009? Isn`t this the building where the Headquarters of National historic Park sit?
2/7/2010 3:26:10 PM by Anonymous
Name:Chad
MTU Class of:
This is Lake Linden, at the corner of Calumet St. and 2nd St. looking east. That is the Holy Rosary Catholic Church.
2/7/2013 3:51:20 PM by Anonymous
• Handwritten comment on back of print (unknown author): Seeberville location at Champion Mine where deputies killed 2 strikers when making arrests. These deputies were convicted by Houghton Co. jury & were sent to Marquette prison. Judge Flanagan presided at trial.""
2/8/2006 6:39:35 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Handwritten comment on back of print (unknown author): Jane Bros. & Dally were killed while asleep in bed at midnight Champion Mine. Union leaders from So. Range did the shooting.""
2/8/2006 7:13:30 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Handwritten comment on back of print (unknown author): The deputies were attacked by strikers, when making arrests & they shot up the house killing two strikers. The deputies were convicted & are now serving terms of imprisonment at Marquette.""
2/8/2006 7:25:53 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The vehicle is a circa 1908 Ford N Runabout. Ford Models N, R and S are identified by the radiator with winged Ford script and water pump mounted in the radiator under the crank handle. Models N and S Runabouts had 28 x 3 tires while Models R and S Roadsters had 30 x 3's. The wheels on this one are clearly the smaller size. Only Model N's had buggy type step plates (the drivers side is visible in this photo between right front wheel and horn). N's also had fenders with no lip around the perimeter, as these are, while the others all had lips. The square lense side lights would make it a late '07 or 1908 model as the earlier ones had round lenses. I have a 1906 N Runabout in process of restoration.This car is also in Image Nara 42-018A.
2/8/2007 10:40:41 AM by Anonymous
• The church in the picture is the Methodist church not the Episcopal church.
2/8/2007 7:25:30 PM by davef908
• The church in the background is the Methodist church not the Episcopal church.
2/8/2007 7:27:27 PM by davef908
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
James C. Rogers. Appears to be working an a project examining the propagation of sound in the woods with students.
2/8/2010 12:13:31 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cameron Hartnell
MTU Class of:2009
Charles Chuck" Young using a Very Low Frequency (VLF) receiver (Geonics EM-16) to take electromagnetic measurements for planning the placement of antennae for the ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) project. "
2/8/2010 12:17:46 PM by Anonymous
• Looks similar to MS042-999-049-U-774A also from the Reeder collection. That image has the added description After the Carroll's Foundry Fire.""
2/8/2010 4:32:03 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Stationed from 1952 to 1954. 75 or so guys. Worked on anything electronic - from the telephones, FPS-3 radar, T-1 transmitter, even ran the movie projector. We had great food. Went on to graduate from Mich Tech.
2/8/2011 3:25:36 PM by Anonymous
• Nice card! Having collected these POSTCARDS done by the GARRAWAY Company of Rutherford, New Jersey for over 115 years (since I first found one) It's unusual to see a new one. I have numbers up to over 400. The FIRST ones were done about 1913 and the last in the later 20's. Each card has a brief but technical description of item pictured on reverse. Most are of Mining Equipment and related. - John Taylor
2/8/2012 7:02:05 PM by Anonymous
• Would like to make contact with Darrell J Nicks as my grandfather was also a member of the Sons of St George in Chicago, in the late 1880s 1890s
2/8/2013 12:22:02 PM by Anonymous
• This photo (in the background, at least) shows the #5 shaft of the Mohawk mine, just south of the town.
2/9/2010 7:57:38 PM by Anonymous
• NOT AC Lane, no way, no how!!! Impossible!
2/9/2011 1:58:56 PM by Anonymous
• Blacksmith Shop on right
2/9/2011 9:25:45 PM by Anonymous
• I do believe that the boardwalk is at the North Entry of the Portage Lake Ship Canal - near present-day McLain State Park. Both images show the east side of the entry with the Life-saving station buildings. One of the images gives you a glimpse of the west side of the entry and its lighthouse.Here is a depiction of the lifesaving station:Image #:MS042-011-053-953-8http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=696373#Here is what the lighthouse looked like:Nara 42-219http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=603463#Image #:MS042-058-999-W857http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=707907#This shows the lighthouse from the same boardwalk:Image #:MS044-004-001-001http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=623813#
2/9/2012 10:49:16 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• I do believe that the boardwalk is at the North Entry of the Portage Lake Ship Canal - near present-day McLain State Park. Both images show the east side of the entry with the Life-saving station buildings. One of the images gives you a glimpse of the west side of the entry and its lighthouse.Here is a depiction of the lifesaving station:Image #:MS042-011-053-953-8http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=696373#Here is what the lighthouse looked like:Nara 42-219http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=603463#Image #:MS042-058-999-W857http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=707907#This shows the lighthouse from the same boardwalk:Image #:MS044-004-001-001http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=623813#
2/9/2012 10:49:31 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• It's Jamsen not Jamesen.
2/9/2015 12:25:27 PM by Anonymous
• 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
• Am I seeing the tombstones dates on right correctly, this person died before they were born? Maybe that's why someone took this picture? And she was only 6 yrs old?
3/1/2015 10:03:48 PM by Anonymous
• I agree, the building that is in the right side of the image, is still there on Quincy.
3/1/2015 10:25:58 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this to be Cliff Drive, just North of Mohawk.
3/1/2015 10:41:34 PM by Anonymous
• The sign is advertising the comedy Happy Hooligan, which played at the Kerredge Theatre on Saturday, April 23, 1904.
3/1/2015 8:26:09 PM by John Haeussler
• The sophomores won the game, 49-0.
3/1/2015 8:27:56 PM by John Haeussler
• The E.L. Wright School opened on Monday, January 31, 1910.
3/1/2015 8:29:17 PM by John Haeussler
• This is the Dr. Albert and Margaret Lawbaugh residence at 117 Willow Avenue in Laurium. I believe Adolph Isler often included snowshoes in winter photos as his signature." I haven't heard that Reeder did as well, so I would guess this is actually an Isler photo. - Jeremiah Mason "
3/10/2009 10:06:07 AM by Anonymous
Name:Major Donny North
MTU Class of:
I do recall the great drug round (I was a teen) at the time, but knew one of the officers involved. I am tryiong to make contact with any of the air base kids from 1970-1972. My email is: dnflipper@yahoo.com
3/10/2010 9:47:20 AM by Anonymous
• And, again, the men involved were not police and Kalan had not broken any laws that day either. None of the men were police and none of the victims (or others in the boardinghouse) had broken any laws that day.
3/10/2013 11:07:39 AM by Anonymous
• This map is in a brochure called Veste Deposits of Coals on the Spitzberg Island Secured for Drontheim Account" which was an advertisement from the Trondhjem-Spitsbergen Kulkompanie (Trondheim-Spitsbergen Coal Company) for the sale of coal lands on Spitsbergen. The company claimed land on the west side of Advent Bay in 1900 and investigated and worked the coal seam there for a few years. The Arctic Coal Company bought the claim in 1905, which was to become their largest center of operations. The workings shown are a suggestion for the potential buyer and were never actually built."
3/11/2008 9:29:26 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Map of the south-west section of Spitsbergen. The grayed out section was the area of land claimed by the Trondhjem-Spitsbergen Kulkompagni in 1900, and bought by the Arctic Coal Company in 1905. This land became known as 'Tract 1' and was the center of the ACC's operations until 1916.
3/11/2008 9:32:05 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph was taken in 1912
3/11/2009 11:52:31 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
Name:Jan stubbs
MTU Class of:69
I worked there as a civilian in July '67 for 1 year. Got kicked out of a night club for dancing dirty.
3/11/2010 12:36:38 PM by Anonymous
• I was one of the kids stationed at this base, my Dad was Donald Rutan. I was one of five and remember playing all day in the surrounding woods. My youngest sibling was born there.
3/11/2016 1:28:54 PM by Anonymous
• In the early summer of 1907, the Arctic Coal Company was unable to get its ship, the Munroe, to its settlement in Advent Bay. As a temporary measure, the company stored timber the ship was carrying at Safe Harbor, on the north side of the Ice Fjord, and collected it later.
3/12/2008 1:23:20 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In the early summer season, the Arctic Coal Company often found the Ice Fjord blocked by ice, making access to its settlement on Advent Bay difficult to reach.
3/12/2008 1:24:09 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Whaling efforts on the east side of Advent Bay. In the Background is the settlement of the Spitsbergen Coal and Trading Company, which operated from 1904-1908. At this time, the settlement was likely abandoned.
3/12/2008 1:24:46 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the Arctic Coal Company’s dock under construction. The dock was completed in 1908.
3/12/2008 1:25:04 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear City in 1912-15. The building in the foreground was built with four separate quarters and was designed for families.
3/12/2008 1:25:18 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear City in 1914. Advent Bay is in the background.
3/12/2008 1:26:21 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Two miners in Arctic Coal Company Mine 1, on Tract 1, Advent Bay.
3/12/2008 1:26:41 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The upper terminal of the Arctic Coal Company’s aerial tramway. Mine 1 was located on the hill above this tramway. Mined coal was fed down a chute to a coal storage pocket, partially visible above and adjacent the tramway terminal. Coal was then fed into aerial tramway cars which went down the tramway to the company’s dock where ships were loaded. The tramway was gravity powered.
3/12/2008 1:27:12 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company’s dock trestle, powerhouse, and coal storage area. Coal was loaded onto rail cars by a steam crane (visible on the hill) and led down the slope to the dock.
3/12/2008 1:27:41 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• An aerial tramway tower of the Arctic Coal Company, in Longyear Valley.
3/12/2008 1:28:01 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• At the beginning of the summer work season, the Arctic Coal Company was often unable to get its ships to its main settlement, Longyear City. Men, baggage and supplies were carried across the frozen waterways to camp while the ship returned to Norway to pick up more men and supplies.
3/12/2008 1:30:30 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A sod hut built by a Norwegian hunter, just off the Ice Fjord. The Arctic Coal Company claimed this and surrounding areas in 1905 for its coal mining operation. In 1907, the company took this hut, which they belived was abandoned, and added a timber addition. The company only operated in this area for a few years before abandoning it.
3/12/2008 1:36:14 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph may have been taken by John Munroe Longyear during his vacation travels here in 1901.
3/12/2008 1:37:28 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph was likely taken by John Munroe Longyear during his vacation travels in 1901. Longyear formed a company and sent men to claim this land in 1905.
3/12/2008 1:38:43 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Smeerenburg was a Dutch whaling station at the north-west of Spitsbergen. Smeerenburg means 'blubber town' in English.
3/12/2008 1:39:41 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Advent Bay was a popular tourist stop off point on Spitsbergen. A tourist hotel was constructed nearby in 1896. These memorials were established by different tourist groups to commemorate their visit.
3/12/2008 1:41:11 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In the early summer season, the Arctic Coal Company often could not navigate its ships to its main settlement at Longyear City. The company often dropped off men, with goods and equipment, to make their own way to the settlement while the ship returned to Norway.
3/13/2008 10:30:59 AM by Anonymous
• The Arctic Coal Company claimed this area, Tract 2, in 1905 as part of its coal mining operations, and sold it in 1916. The company built one house and a barrack, the barrack is visible here, to house up to 8 people. The company's mine, mine 1 of tract 2, was on the hill above the barrack. The company bought the small shed by the shore and moved it to the barrack location.
3/13/2008 10:35:59 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A hotel on Advent Point, on Advent Bay. The building, prefabricated in Norway, was built in 1896 by Vesteraalen Seamship Company and could accommodate 25 guests. The Arctic Coal Company bought the hotel in 1905 for use by its coal mining operations. The company moved the building to Longyear City, in nearby Longyear Valley, in 1908 where it was used as a warehouse and company store.
3/13/2008 10:39:34 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Purchased in 1913, this was the second crane the Arctic Coal Company acquired to transfer coal from its stock pile to rail cars. Its first crane was notoriously prone to breakdown. The base of this crane remains in Longyearbyen, near the position seen in this photograph.
3/13/2008 10:45:00 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The elite of the Arctic Coal Company, and their guests, occasionally took hunting and toursit trips around Spitsbergen. They shot birds, seals, walrus and other wildlife. Polar bears, though, were the most prized catch of the hunt.'Ed' is Edmund J. Longyear, a cousin of John Munroe Longyear.
3/13/2008 11:08:01 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company began Mine 2, on Tract 1, in 1912. The mine was prepared for but not engaged in full-scale operation by the company. It developed the mine to protect its land claim to this area and to amplify the percieved value of the company's operation by potential buyers.Store Norske Kulkompagni, which purchased the operations in 1916, extensively exploited this mine, which it called Mine 2(a).
3/13/2008 11:17:17 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Compnay's Hayward Steam-Crane transferring coal from the stock pile to rail cars.
3/13/2008 11:18:51 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's mine 1 on tract 1. The structure burned in a fire in 1911.
3/13/2008 11:29:00 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's staff house, or superintendents house, in Longyear City.
3/13/2008 11:30:11 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Part of the Arctic Coal Company's coal loading facilities at its coal stock pile. Two rail lines run down the hill to the company's dock. The simple rail overpass seen here connected a small coal pile adjacent the aerial tramway tower to a coal chute above the power station.
3/13/2008 11:33:38 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear City.
3/13/2008 11:34:33 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear City, filled with simple, single-story timber structures.
3/13/2008 11:35:27 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows a double family house built by the Arctic Coal Company in Longyear City in 1912. The company built these to provide better accommodation for its higher ranking staff and allow wives to accompany their husbands here. Three identical houses of this form were built by the company (a second is visible in the background.)
3/13/2008 11:38:48 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• View of the Arctic Coal Company's Mine 1, tract 1.
3/13/2008 11:40:15 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• 'Spitzbergen' also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/13/2008 11:44:11 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This is another view of the Robbins/West Vein mine taken from the bluff just west of the mine, looking east. Over the mine is the town of Phoenix. Pre 1905.
3/13/2008 4:55:43 PM by Anonymous
• Small correction to my previous comment; after seeing the large print I purchased I noticed that the windows were boarded up from the inside. That makes the date sometime shortly after 1905 (when the mine closed). KF
3/13/2008 5:00:27 PM by Anonymous
• Confirmed. This is the Robbins/West Vein mine long after 1905. The building in the foreground burned around 1905; also notice the decaying roof and lack of tramway. KF
3/13/2008 5:04:48 PM by Anonymous
• This is Earl Sohlden’s Farm on the North Entry Road. In the trailer are Earl Sohlden and Harry Piggott. Also in the picture are Clifford Palosaari, Howard Moilanen, Ed Lauluma, Ruth and Esther Breadback, and Bertha Aho (now Mrs. Rudy Maki–she may be able to identify the old guy). The small girls may be Talbots.Information is from Leo Tervo, submitted by Carol Saari.
3/13/2009 3:50:00 PM by Anonymous
• The unidentified man on the truck is Wesley Tervo. Information is from Leo Tervo, submitted by Carol Saari.
3/13/2009 4:02:35 PM by Anonymous
• The tall building is the Mech. Bldg, the one on the right is the Chem. Bldg. the one on the left is the library and the one on the right in the foreground is Fischer Hall. College Ave. still ran through campus I believe but ended on the south at the new US41. When I first arrived at Tech in 1969 US 41 was College Ave. The bypass was being built but was not finished.
3/13/2009 4:24:15 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cheryl (Isaacson) DeCovich
MTU Class of:1971
The street in the picture was actually between the library and Fisher Hall. College avenue was already closed when this picture was taken. The street in the picture was used for parking and was a dead end.
3/13/2009 4:24:49 PM by Anonymous
Name:Jennifer Kilgore
MTU Class of:1983
I believe what you see in this picture is meter parking only and it stopped at Fisher and the library. I attended starting in 1978 and was at Women in Engineering in 1976. College Avenue did not pass through campus then.
3/13/2009 4:25:23 PM by Anonymous
Name:Ken Williams
MTU Class of:1975
When I arrived on campus the fall of 1971, College avenue had already been moved away from mid-campus. Segments of the road still existed and were used for parking. The road you see in the picture went between the Library and Fisher Hall, turned to go on the north side of Fisher (the old College avenue) and then turned to connect back to the new College avenue. I had an office on the second floor of Fisher facing north during the mid-70s and got to watch them rip out the road and replace it with sidewalks.
3/13/2009 4:26:53 PM by Anonymous
• This would be in Iron Mountain.
3/13/2010 10:23:41 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
I am on the Maritime Committee of the Keweenaw County Historical Society. We are sponsoring a program April 2,2012, 7 pm at the Portage Lake District Library where we are having a reception for descendants and slide programs. If by chance you get this in time please call the library and leave a message for Chris Alquist. I will write to the email above. The date of the sinking was April 15 morning, not the 17th as stated herein. The library has a photo book about Maude.
3/14/2012 10:36:04 PM by Anonymous
Name:Ted Anderson
MTU Class of:1970
I agree with the comment above which references Third Street looking west in Laurium. The First building on the right is today The Yard Sale". I also recognize the facade on the old bank building on the left."
3/15/2012 2:39:28 PM by Anonymous
Name:Ted Anderson
MTU Class of:1970
This is the old bank building at the corner of Third and Hecla streets in Laurium. The Rexall Drug sign was a drug store owned by Sybilsky's at one time.
3/15/2012 2:54:15 PM by Anonymous
• My impression is that this is not a photograph of Copper Harbor. This impression is based on the following factors:1) The gap in the ridgelines in the background of the photograh are wrong. When one thinks of Copper Harbor, the east end of the West Bluff (i.e., Brockway's Nose") defines the the western perimeter of the town---then there is a several mile long gap before the ridgeline (i.e., East Bluff) (re)starts. This long "gap" is not present in the photograph.2) When one views a panorama of Copper Harbor from Lake Superior, several ridgelines are evident. The first one, discussed above, is the West Bluff-East Bluff ridgeline, with the town and Lake Fanny Hooe located between them. The second ridgeline is, literally, the next ridgeline "back"----it is the ridgeline "back of" the south shore of Lake Fanny Hooe; an extension of this same ridgeline is the ground on which the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge was constructed. Suffice it to say, none of these physical features are present in this photograph.3) On the right side of the photograph a poor rock pile appears to be present, cascading down the side of the ridgeline. There is no such poor rock pile present along the north face of West Bluff.4) The foreground of the photograph evidences a stream, a bridge crossing the stream and the remnants of what appears to be some type of a pond. There is no similar physical water feature present in the Village of Copper Harbor. Rather, the nearest streams to the Copper Harbor are---Fanny Hooe Creek, which is located a mile to the east of the Village---and the intermittent "High Bridge" stream, which is located about a mile to the west of town. I cannot help but wonder if this isn't a photograph of the Minesota mine &/or Rockland area---Copper Harbor it is not. - Paul LaVanway"
3/16/2009 9:58:53 AM by Anonymous
• These are the result of a May 5, 1971 flash flood at Jacob's (not Copper Falls) Creek. The Great Northern Motel, owned by Bausauno's, was wiped out. Holy Transfiguation Skete, Society of St. John owns property now. -- Paul LaVanway
3/16/2011 3:47:26 PM by Anonymous
Name:Susan Andreini Headen
MTU Class of:
This is a photograph of my paternal grandfather, who we called Pops". I am so pleased to find this picture. My parents moved to Detroit after they married, but we visited my grandparents (paternal and fraternal) in the Copper Country every summer and considered it a second home. Our family will be making another "homecoming trip" this summer. My dad, also Joseph Christopher Andreini, was born at home in South Range, Mich. in 1917. He recently passed away in December, 2010, at age 93, preceded by his brother Geno and sisters Dolores "Koko" (Adams) and Elsie (Gianelli). I have four sisters and two brothers, the older of whom, Joe Jr., passed away suddenly of a stroke on March 5 of this year. My father, his brother Geno, and my brother Joe all graduated from MTU. My brother Michael attended, but I think he moved to the state of Washington and ended up finishing his degree in civil engineering there. My brother Joe graduated from MTU in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. His obituary can be found in the Detroit Free Press online. Thank you for providing this beautiful photo and biographical information of my grandfather. "
3/16/2011 4:09:18 PM by Anonymous
• This house stands on the corner of Willow Avenue and First Street, in Laurium. The home to the right of it, on Willow Avenue (barely visible) was the caretakers quarters.
3/16/2011 4:14:52 PM by Anonymous
Name:Annie Mason
MTU Class of:
What a wonderful surprise to find this photo of my Uncle Charlie! He was married to my dad's sister, Betty (Elizabeth) Schoos. Betty and Charlie never had any children of their own, and they would invite me to sleep over at their apartment in Houghton quite often. I was 6 y/o when this picture was taken. Thanks for sharing this photo - it brings back fond memories!
3/16/2011 4:19:49 PM by Anonymous
• To feed its workforce well and avoid sicknesses such as scurvy, the Arctic Coal Company kept a stock livestock, such as cows and pigs, at Longyear City.
3/17/2008 10:11:13 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's bunkhouse #5, in Longyear City. Built in 1912, the bunkhouse was built to accommodate 64 men and was divided internally into rooms for four men. 'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/17/2008 10:49:05 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The foreman's barrack with 14 bedrooms in Longyear City, built 1913. 'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/17/2008 10:51:22 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's Mine 1, Tract 1, in Longyear Valley, above Longyear City (now known as Longyearbyen).
3/17/2008 9:30:57 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's 'Hayward' steam crane, loading coal into a steel hopper which stands above rail lines. Rail cars would be positioned below the hopper, filled with coal, and taken to the comapany's dock to load ships.
3/17/2008 9:45:17 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's warehouse #4, flanked by two other warehouses. This warehouse still stands today.
3/17/2008 9:48:09 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph was taken at the top of the rail incline of the Arctic Coal Company's dock. The incline brought rail cars to a height sufficient to allow ships bunkers to be filled.
3/17/2008 9:50:09 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This is a view through the kitchen door looking north into the dining room of the Putrich house at #17 Second Street in Seeberville. The door just visibile to the left under the stairs lead into the main floor bedroom. According to Kim Hoagland in her article The Boardinghouse Murders: Housing and American Ideals in Michigan's Copper Country in 1913," Croatian immigrants Joseph and Antonia Putrich rented the house from the Copper Range Mining Company. At the time these photos were taken, they had four children under the age of four, one hired girl, Josephine Grubesich (Antonia's sister), and ten male boarders, including Joseph's brother Steve Putrich, who died in the shooting, and his nephews Albert and Louis Tijan (Louis also died in the shooting, and Albert later married Antonia's sister Josephine). The other boarders included John Kalan and his eighteen-year-old son Slave, John Stimac, and two others. This is a rare view of a working-class, boarding house interior. - Jeremiah Mason, with thanks to Kim."
3/17/2009 4:13:16 PM by Anonymous
• This is a view looking east in the kitchen of the Putrich house at #17 Second Street in Seeberville.According to Kim Hoagland in her article The Boardinghouse Murders: Housing and American Ideals in Michigan's Copper Country in 1913," Croatian immigrants Joseph and Antonia Putrich rented the house from the Copper Range Mining Company. At the time these photos were taken, they had four children under the age of four, one hired girl, Josephine Grubesich (Antonia's sister), and ten male boarders, including Joseph's brother Steve Putrich, who died in the shooting, and his nephews Albert and Louis Tijan (Louis also died in the shooting, and Albert later married Antonia's sister Josephine). The other boarders included John Kalan and his eighteen-year-old son Slave, John Stimac, and two others. This is a rare view of a working-class, boarding house interior. - Jeremiah Mason, with thanks to Kim."
3/17/2009 4:22:38 PM by Anonymous
• This is a view looking east in the dining room of the Putrich house at #17 Second Street in Seeberville.According to Kim Hoagland in her article The Boardinghouse Murders: Housing and American Ideals in Michigan's Copper Country in 1913," Croatian immigrants Joseph and Antonia Putrich rented the house from the Copper Range Mining Company. At the time these photos were taken, they had four children under the age of four, one hired girl, Josephine Grubesich (Antonia's sister), and ten male boarders, including Joseph's brother Steve Putrich, who died in the shooting, and his nephews Albert and Louis Tijan (Louis also died in the shooting, and Albert later married Antonia's sister Josephine). The other boarders included John Kalan and his eighteen-year-old son Slave, John Stimac, and two others. This is a rare view of a working-class, boarding house interior. - Jeremiah Mason, with thanks to Kim."
3/17/2009 4:26:45 PM by Anonymous
• This is a view looking east in the kitchen of the Putrich house at #17 Second Street in Seeberville.According to Kim Hoagland in her article The Boardinghouse Murders: Housing and American Ideals in Michigan's Copper Country in 1913," Croatian immigrants Joseph and Antonia Putrich rented the house from the Copper Range Mining Company. At the time these photos were taken, they had four children under the age of four, one hired girl, Josephine Grubesich (Antonia's sister), and ten male boarders, including Joseph's brother Steve Putrich, who died in the shooting, and his nephews Albert and Louis Tijan (Louis also died in the shooting, and Albert later married Antonia's sister Josephine). The other boarders included John Kalan and his eighteen-year-old son Slave, John Stimac, and two others. This is a rare view of a working-class, boarding house interior. - Jeremiah Mason, with thanks to Kim."
3/17/2009 4:28:03 PM by Anonymous
• This is a view looking northeast of the tarpaper kithcen at the rear of the Putrich house at #17 Second Street in Seeberville.According to Kim Hoagland in her article The Boardinghouse Murders: Housing and American Ideals in Michigan's Copper Country in 1913," Croatian immigrants Joseph and Antonia Putrich rented the house from the Copper Range Mining Company. At the time these photos were taken, they had four children under the age of four, one hired girl, Josephine Grubesich (Antonia's sister), and ten male boarders, including Joseph's brother Steve Putrich, who died in the shooting, and his nephews Albert and Louis Tijan (Louis also died in the shooting, and Albert later married Antonia's sister Josephine). The other boarders included John Kalan and his eighteen-year-old son Slave, John Stimac, and two others. This is a rare view of a working-class, boarding house. - Jeremiah Mason, with thanks to Kim."
3/17/2009 4:32:45 PM by Anonymous
• This is a view looking southwest of the Putrich house at #17 Second Street in Seeberville.According to Kim Hoagland in her article The Boardinghouse Murders: Housing and American Ideals in Michigan's Copper Country in 1913," Croatian immigrants Joseph and Antonia Putrich rented the house from the Copper Range Mining Company. At the time these photos were taken, they had four children under the age of four, one hired girl, Josephine Grubesich (Antonia's sister), and ten male boarders, including Joseph's brother Steve Putrich, who died in the shooting, and his nephews Albert and Louis Tijan (Louis also died in the shooting, and Albert later married Antonia's sister Josephine). The other boarders included John Kalan and his eighteen-year-old son Slave, John Stimac, and two others. This is a rare view of a working-class, boarding house. - Jeremiah Mason, with thanks to Kim."
3/17/2009 4:34:48 PM by Anonymous
• This is a view looking southeast of the Putrich house at #17 Second Street in Seeberville. The man labeled Dad" is Joseph Putrich, the woman labeled "Mom," is Antonia Putrich, the woman labeled "Aunt," is Josephine (Grubesich) Tijan, and the others are likely the Putriches' children and boarders/relatives.According to Kim Hoagland in her article "The Boardinghouse Murders: Housing and American Ideals in Michigan's Copper Country in 1913," Croatian immigrants Joseph and Antonia Putrich rented the house from the Copper Range Mining Company. At the time these photos were taken, they had four children under the age of four, one hired girl, Josephine Grubesich (Antonia's sister), and ten male boarders, including Joseph's brother Steve Putrich, who died in the shooting, and his nephews Albert and Louis Tijan (Louis also died in the shooting, and Albert later married Antonia's sister Josephine). The other boarders included John Kalan and his eighteen-year-old son Slave, John Stimac, and two others. This is a rare view of a working-class, boarding house interior. - Jeremiah Mason, with thanks to Kim."
3/17/2009 4:39:14 PM by Anonymous
• This is a view looking south of the Putrich House in Seeberville.According to Kim Hoagland in her article The Boardinghouse Murders: Housing and American Ideals in Michigan's Copper Country in 1913," Croatian immigrants Joseph and Antonia Putrich rented the house from the Copper Range Mining Company. At the time these photos were taken, they had four children under the age of four, one hired girl, Josephine Grubesich (Antonia's sister), and ten male boarders, including Joseph's brother Steve Putrich, who died in the shooting, and his nephews Albert and Louis Tijan (Louis also died in the shooting, and Albert later married Antonia's sister Josephine). The other boarders included John Kalan and his eighteen-year-old son Slave, John Stimac, and two others. This is a rare view of a working-class, boarding house. - Jeremiah Mason, with thanks to Kim."
3/17/2009 4:41:11 PM by Anonymous
• This is a sketch of the floorplan of the Putrich house at #17 Second Street in Seeberville.According to Kim Hoagland in her article The Boardinghouse Murders: Housing and American Ideals in Michigan's Copper Country in 1913," Croatian immigrants Joseph and Antonia Putrich rented the house from the Copper Range Mining Company. At the time these photos were taken, they had four children under the age of four, one hired girl, Josephine Grubesich (Antonia's sister), and ten male boarders, including Joseph's brother Steve Putrich, who died in the shooting, and his nephews Albert and Louis Tijan (Louis also died in the shooting, and Albert later married Antonia's sister Josephine). The other boarders included John Kalan and his eighteen-year-old son Slave, John Stimac, and two others. - Jeremiah Mason, with thanks to Kim."
3/17/2009 5:06:38 PM by Anonymous
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
This picture is of the North Entry Lighthouse but it is printed backwards from the negative. This is written on the back of photo in file. It is the same structure as in other photos if you transpose it. Men in uniform are the lighthouse keepers. see link www.stantontownship.com and click on history, click on lighthoouse.
3/17/2011 8:27:17 AM by Anonymous
• Photo also appears in the Michigan Tech Centennial on page 71.
3/18/2008 3:07:49 PM by Anonymous
• Photo also appears in the Michigan Tech Centennial on page 72.
3/18/2008 3:21:27 PM by Anonymous
• Actually the were not attempting to arrest this man but another man named John Kollan for walking across mine property while on strike. He resisted arrest and was said to have ran into the boarding house. Upon which the Waddell men fired into the house killing two men Putrich and Tijan (spelt various ways)
3/18/2011 8:31:20 AM by Anonymous
• The Arctic Coal Company bought this old whaling ship in 1906 in Norway, then called the 'Heimdal,' for 21,000Kr + 2% commission.
3/19/2009 5:19:21 PM by Anonymous
• Although I haven't seen any documentary proof, some people indicate that this man's name is Peter Joseph Shelafoe.
3/19/2010 8:24:36 AM by Anonymous
• Although I haven't seen any documentary proof, some people indicate that this man's name is Peter Joseph Shelafoe.
3/19/2010 8:24:50 AM by Anonymous
• Not the Adventure Mine. this is the Michigan Mine
3/19/2011 1:21:44 PM by Anonymous
• John R.(Jack) Neph and Rocky""
3/19/2011 1:25:01 PM by Anonymous
• Also known as Cowboy Boulder""
3/19/2011 1:34:15 PM by Anonymous
Name:Thomas Powers
MTU Class of:
I would love to know some of the people in this photo as well. My father, Thomas Powers, my grandfather, Thomas Richard Powers, and great grandfather, Michael Powers all worked there at different times. When this picture was taken my grandfather Thomas Richard Powers wouldn't have been in the picture because he left Hancock in 1908 or so and went west. My father and his brothers could have been there as youngsters. My father was born in November 1902 and his older brother, Harold T. Powers in June 1898. Tom Powers, tomp49707@yahoo.com
3/19/2012 6:58:15 PM by Anonymous
• I was stationed at Calumet AFS 1963-65.I remember Dick Toth and his Austin Healy Sprite. Considered him a friend. The winter of 63/64 I believe we had 357 inches of snow. They plowed the parking lot with a dozer. I remember Sgt Tipton too, and Sgt Dill, Biff Aslen, Larry Leatherman, and an AP last name Rice. I loved the U.P. The people there are great, and really friendly. I moved there after leaving the Air Force. Went to Michigan Tech. Worked part-time for the Calumet Police, With John Sullivan, Tom Ceno, Freddie Rauch and others. Worked two seasons on Isle Royale with Dave Kangas. Worked in the Kingston Mine in Ahmeek, lived in a cabin behind Slims in Mohawk. Couldn't afford to continue at Tech after they raised the tuition in 1968. Contact info frankfordpd@hotmail.com.
3/19/2015 5:45:18 AM by burgessr
• Birth: Jan. 12, 1801SangerfieldOneida CountyNew York, USADeath: Oct. 4, 1861Copper HarborKeweenaw CountyMichigan, USAHusband of Orpha Ranney.Father of Bertha, Asenath, Benjamin, Jeremiah, Bertha, John, Eugenia d 1905 (m ? Rees), Mary, Orpha, John, Caroline, Eliza and Richmond Livermore.Moved from Oneida Co NY to Rochester Oakland Co MI. In 1848, he was the Indian agent for the Chippewa tribe and lived at La Point on Lake Superior. John died at Copper Harbor MI in 1861. Delegate from Oakland County to the Second Convention of Assent; 1836; and Representative from Oakland County, 1839 and 1842. Was born in Saugerfield, N. Y., Jan. 12, 1801. By occupation he was a physician, in politics a Democrat. He was a volunteer in the War of 1812. He located at Rochester, Mich., in 1830. He left there in 1848, and died at Ft. Wilkins, on Lake Superior, Oct. 4, 1861."Source: Source: "Michigan Government Biographies 1924, Volume 3, pg. 30. Family links: Parents: Abner Livermore (1777 - 1857) Melinda Bassett Livermore (1780 - 1816) Children: Bertha Ann Livermore (1824 - 1831)* John Randolph Livermore (1834 - 1834)* Siblings: John Safford Livermore (1801 - 1861) Fidus Livermore (1811 - 1880)* Lucinda Livermore Shaw (1814 - 1873)* Inscription:Our FatherAged 60 Yrs. 8 Mo's & 27 D's. Burial:Copper Harbor Cemetery Copper HarborKeweenaw CountyMichigan, USAPlot: Unknown Created by: Amelia ChristyRecord added: Aug 12, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 20918440"
3/19/2015 5:49:52 PM by Jimatbf
Name:Ron Paavo
MTU Class of:
The white dog in front is a Russian Wolfhound whose name was Pal. It belonged to my Uncle by marriage. I remember it as a friendly dog that was let loose in the yard out Uncle Charlie and Aunt Toini's residence in Heinola district.
3/19/2016 4:36:36 PM by Anonymous
• I believe the unknown man in this picture is former Principal Walter Davis.
3/2/2011 3:36:35 PM by Anonymous
• The combined ME/EE building in those days was Hotchkiss Hall. EE had the east half and ME the west. Department offices were in the front corners on the second floor.
3/2/2012 11:54:54 AM by Anonymous
• The photo of the students wearing pajamas is probably from a frosh week pajama parade. i had been under the impression that fall of 1957 (class of '61) was the last one because it got out of hand as there was a record number of freshmen 600+, up to that time. there appears to have been a pajama parade in the fall of '58 but then frosh week seems to turn into freshman orientation. the pajama parade consisted of the freshmen wearing pajamas (over substantial cold weather clothing) and the pot. the pot was a knit woolen chook of black and gold with a large black MT on the front. at the time there were two meanings for the MT.it was capped off with a black ball of yarn. oh, to have my old pot back. i bet the bookstore could do a good business if they recreated the pot. the picture appears to have the students wearing a pot with a white ball so this may before 1957. the pajama parade of '57 became quite rowdy. the parade went from campus into houghton and then hancock. traffic came to a halt when the bridge became filled with pajama wearing students who just stopped. the 1958 Keweenawan has a couple of pages of good pictures of the parade. the lead photo is of al ackerman and a freshman girl who i don't recognize. the class of '61 just was in houghton for the 50th and the pajama parade and other frosh week activities were remembered with amusement. the panty raid on smith house was the topic of a number of conversations.
3/2/2012 12:16:30 PM by Anonymous
• We had a good time at the reunion this year. It’s too bad that more of the women didn’t or couldn’t come. I’m sure that you would have had more hair raising stories. SmileWe’ve had a busy time since we got home. The next day the computer died, the following day the TV died, the antenna man finally came to replace our dead rotator and the driveway sealers finally came who were supposed to come while we were gone and company came for several days. Meanwhile....I’ve been engrossed with trying to learn how to do stuff in Windows 7 etc. etc. We had the provider tech out here for one problem which he didn’t have an answer for, but I finally found a work around.Anyway.... I scanned a couple of pages from the 1958 Keweenawan of the pajama parade. In the one full page picture is Kathy Ryan in her new fashion “baby doll” pajamas which she and Judy Kelly wore and seemed to cause a near riot by themselves. There are pictures on the bridge, and you can see where there was one girl who did not look like a willing participant. I think she was “picked up” in Hancock. There’s also a picture of the queen’s court, Left to right is Mary Barnard, Judy Carlson (who sat next to Kathy Kilponen at the pinning) and Kathy Ryan.Gerald Jahn was also there. He & I had gone to school together in Saginaw since Kindergarten. Someplace I have a photo of us in our cap & gowns in front of Hubble Hall. We should have gotten another one at the reunion. Oh, well.
3/2/2012 12:16:58 PM by Anonymous
• The last - and final - Pajama Parade, so far as I know, was in the Fall of '57. The pajama-clad freshmen paraded across the old bridge to Hancock - the present bridge was still a year or two away.Something happened, and there was a riot" on the bridge. The doughty "Pasty" and his Houghton Police compatriots may have arrested a few of the "toots" - I don't remember now.Anyway, the Mining Gazette the next day headlined the "riot," complete with photographs. I believe that then-president Van Pelt deep-sixed the Pajama Parade, forever, at that point."
3/2/2012 12:17:20 PM by Anonymous
• I was stationed there in 1982. At that time only one tower was operational. We had radar maintenance staff on site, but I think the radar operators were at Marquette, MI.
3/20/2009 3:50:40 PM by Anonymous
• This is another shot of the wreckage from the same angle.

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3/20/2010 10:46:38 PM by dalongpre
• This is another shot from the same angle taken from near, what I believe is, the remains of the foundation of the old #1 engine house.

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3/20/2010 10:49:50 PM by dalongpre
• This shows the remaining cable stands leading to the #2 engine house where my grandpa worked. My mom is in the front seat of the Ford.

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3/20/2010 10:51:50 PM by dalongpre
• This was taken from the opposite side of the shaft house. #2 engine house is in the back and, I believe, the boiler house for #2 is to the right near the stack. The square box near the bottom of the stack is the rock car that was ripped out of the shaft house.

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3/20/2010 10:55:25 PM by dalongpre
• This last photo was taken from back near the engine house. You can see some of the wreckage from the first cable stands in the distance. If this accident had taken place one load later there would have been many dead workers.

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3/20/2010 10:58:47 PM by dalongpre
Name:Glenn Garrison
MTU Class of:2 class
I was calumet Radar Base from March 1962 to March 1963. Was cold 20 below 8 weeks in the winter. Was nice up there. I was in the power production generator mechanic. Had 3 diesel power production for power for the base. Run 2 diesels for the base. The 3rd diesel was backup. I had a 1956 Chevy BELAIR red and white a small 6 cylinder. A airman had a 1957 Chevy BELAIR blue and white 8 cylinder 350 4 barrel. I loved the barracks, motor pool, commissary, medical aid, chow in the dining room. The ladies off base, was having fun. Have a good day my email is vibe1329@gmail.com
3/20/2016 11:57:56 PM by Anonymous
• The Sons of St George still has an active lodge in Birmingham England. They will be marching on the St Georges parade in West Bromwich West Midlands England on Sunday April 25th 2010. They hold regular monthly meetings in Birmaingham.
3/21/2010 12:13:15 PM by Anonymous
• W. H. Brinkman photographer and music director of Rhythm Ryders band
3/21/2011 2:18:14 PM by Anonymous
• W. H. Brinkman is the photographer
3/21/2011 2:20:53 PM by Anonymous
• it sits very much like this today
3/21/2011 2:22:32 PM by bcurto
• My father William Richard Hughes was a member of the sons of St. George's blues in Milwaukee becoming president in 1931. Can anybody help with any information? -- Nigel Hughes
3/21/2011 6:58:41 PM by Anonymous
• That is George Ruohonen.
3/21/2011 8:34:10 PM by Anonymous
• from left:Albert Franti, Paul Burkman, Walter Franti, ?, Adolph Luoma, ?, John Jones, Appo (sp?) Luoma
3/21/2011 8:38:54 PM by Anonymous
• Arrived at Calumet AFS in June of 1969 straight from tech achool in Biloxi.worked in the GATR shop (radio maintenance). SMsgt.Darby was the squadron 1st sargent.Worked with Sgt.'s Squires, Russell,Bellisario and some others.Transferred to Empire (Mich) AFS in 1970. Discharged from the 752nd radar squadron in 1972.
3/21/2013 9:37:41 PM by Anonymous
• The first church on the right was originally a Norwegian church. It outgrew it members and they built another in Calumet. It was sold and became a Catholic church.Alicia Koski Marshall
3/22/2008 2:55:25 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this is Dale Holbrook, a former teacher at MCM&T. He and Jim McNamara formed Peninsula Air Service, in the mid 1950s,which began at the Houghton Sands Airport. They replaced Ed Hoyer's Isle Royle Air Service.
3/22/2012 8:01:51 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Hollywood Bar, on Tezcuccu & Hancock St., in Hancock. Owned by a Beerbacker.
3/22/2012 8:21:04 PM by Anonymous
• The old Copper Harbor airport to the upper left.
3/22/2012 8:34:55 PM by Anonymous
Name:Ken Williams
MTU Class of:1975 (Computer Science)
In the picture of the Fisher Hall electrical panels, I believe that is Dr. McMillin standing to the right. Since Dr. McMillin was head of the Simulation Lab, one might assume these are analog computers.
3/23/2009 12:08:24 PM by Anonymous
Name:Bob Cunningham
MTU Class of:1978
I believe these are part of the old Analog computer. When I was at Tech in the mid 70's it was still installed but it didn't appear to get a lot of usage at that point. I was told that at one time it was the largest analog computer in the world. It used integrator and differentiator circuits to perform calculus calculations. The digital computer had taken over aka IBM 360/370. We also had a PDP8 on campus - a so called mini computer.
3/23/2009 12:08:48 PM by Anonymous
Name:Chris Otis
MTU Class of:1970
I presume they were to supply different voltages/power to lab benches in the physics labs. I think these were on the first floor, but I’m not sure. Fisher housed some large auditorium classrooms (Freshman Chem /Math /Physics and Friday and Saturday movies), Physics, Math and Computer Science and Humanities. The IBM 360 and its keypunch machines and terminals were on the second floor I think.
3/23/2009 12:09:12 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dave Feryus
MTU Class of:1981
What you see are probably analog computer consoles. The Simulation Lab on the second floor of Fisher (in the late 70's at least) contained a variety of analog computers used for simulating differential equations. CS350 Fundamentals of Linear Analog Computation" was a class held in the lab. You "programmed" the computers with knobs, switches, and patch cords, using the panels shown in the picture. The lab was run by Dr. McMillin, that should be him on the right standing up, wearing glasses. His assistant was a very interesting guy named Winsauer - he was way into Robert Heinlein. Grok that. The two of them taught classes in the lab and liked to play "good cop, bad cop" with students. Built character, I suppose. The whole thing was, as you say, vintage."
3/23/2009 12:09:43 PM by Anonymous
Name:Joe Wood
MTU Class of:1967 (Math)
I don't remember these panels, but the gentleman in the tie in the picture sure reminds me of Prof MacMillan from whom I took a computer architecture course in the early 1960's. All we worked on were analog computers - he was certain that the analog computer technology was superior to the digital computer technology and would continue to be a viable technology if not the winning technology for the future of computers. I enjoyed the course nevertheless and haven't seen an analog computer since.
3/23/2009 12:10:20 PM by Anonymous
Name:Darrell J Nicks
MTU Class of:
my greatgrand father william bramwell nicks was a member of st.george in chicago ILL. IN THE LATE 1870'S TO 1890'S OR SO. I HAVE A LOT OF DOCTCUMENT'S WHEN HE WAS A Member. And at one time pres. of mistel toe lodge in ILL. DO YOU HQVE ANY INFORMATION about my Gr-grandfather Nicks
3/23/2010 12:04:59 AM by Anonymous
• My uncle William H Brinkman who submitted these photos is on the Banjo.
3/23/2016 11:57:11 AM by Anonymous
• John Munroe Longyear looks at a hunter's hut made of sod.
3/24/2008 10:02:08 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A whaling and telegraph station at Finneset on Green Harbor.
3/24/2008 10:02:46 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Earnest Mansfield's camp 'New London' in Kongfjorden, of the Northern Exploration Company. The company attempted to mine Marble here but failed in 1913.
3/24/2008 10:09:19 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's ship, the Munroe, near the Northern Exploration Company's settlement, 'New London,' in Kongfjorden.
3/24/2008 10:11:36 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This hut appears to be one of the houses of Earnest Mansfield's camp 'New London' in Kongfjorden, of the Northern Exploration Company.
3/24/2008 10:13:58 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Earnest Mansfield's camp 'New London' in Kongfjorden, of the Northern Exploration Company. The company attempted to mine Marble here but failed in 1913.
3/24/2008 10:14:50 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Virgo Harbor in north-west Svalbard. Site of several airship attempts to reach the North Pole, one by Swedish engineer Salomon Auguste Andree, and two by the American Journalist Walter Wellman. All three members of Andree's expedition died and Wellman's attempts resulted in the death of two.
3/24/2008 10:34:51 AM by Anonymous
• Virgo Harbor, north-west Svalbard.
3/24/2008 10:38:21 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Virgo Harbor in north-west Svalbard. Site of several airship attempts to reach the North Pole, one by Swedish engineer Salomon Auguste Andree, and two by the American Journalist Walter Wellman. All three members of Andree's expedition died and Wellman's attempts resulted in the death of two.
3/24/2008 10:38:39 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Virgo Harbor in north-west Svalbard. Site of several airship attempts to reach the North Pole, one by Swedish engineer Salomon Auguste Andree, and two by the American Journalist Walter Wellman. All three members of Andree's expedition died and Wellman's attempts resulted in the death of two.
3/24/2008 10:38:48 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Virgo Harbor in north-west Svalbard. Site of several airship attempts to reach the North Pole, one by Swedish engineer Salomon Auguste Andree, and two by the American Journalist Walter Wellman. All three members of Andree's expedition died and Wellman's attempts resulted in the death of two.
3/24/2008 10:38:55 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Virgo Harbor in north-west Svalbard. Site of several airship attempts to reach the North Pole, one by Swedish engineer Salomon Auguste Andree, and two by the American Journalist Walter Wellman. All three members of Andree's expedition died and Wellman's attempts resulted in the death of two.
3/24/2008 10:39:04 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A Scott Turner photo album containing this photograph has a caption which reads VI-9-1913. Steamer Thalia of Trieste, at edge of the Polar ice-pack. August 14."
3/24/2008 10:40:57 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A Scott Turner photo album containing this photograph has a caption which reads VII-10-1913. September 6 Original entrance and discovery-drift, No.2 Mine.""
3/24/2008 10:43:22 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A Scott Turner photo album containing this photograph has a caption which reads VI-4-1913. August 13 Wellman house and balloon shed.""
3/24/2008 10:46:43 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A Scott Turner photo album containing this photograph has a caption which reads VI-3-1913. August 13 Andre monumnet and house.""
3/24/2008 10:47:19 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A Scott Turner photo album containing this photograph has a caption which reads IV-8-13. Aug.1 Hut of Arctic Coal Co. at Coles Bay. J.M. Longyear.""
3/24/2008 10:48:28 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A Scott Turner photo album containing this photograph has a caption which reads IV-7-13. Aug.1 Russian house built on Arctic Coal Co. land, West side Coles Bay.""
3/24/2008 10:49:38 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A Scott Turner photo album containing this photograph has a caption which reads II-3-13. June 12. Scott Turner with six geese killed near Longyear City, one hour's hunting.""
3/24/2008 10:50:43 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A Scott Turner photo album containing this photograph has a caption which reads I-5-13. June 3 Looking East up the ICe Fjord toward Advent Bay, from Munroe, first trip up.""
3/24/2008 10:51:47 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A Scott Turner photo album containing this photograph has a caption which reads III-5-12. Aug.2 Whaling station, government wireless station, and Munroe, at Green harbor, Spitsbergen. Part of Ayer & Longyear tract No.2.""
3/24/2008 10:53:54 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The house of John and Mary Longyear. Originally constructed in Marquette, Michigan, the house was moved to Boston in 1903. John Munroe Longyear, was the president of the Arctic Coal Company and is known for the development of timber and mineral lands in the Lake Superior region.
3/24/2008 9:26:46 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A section of Longyear City, Svalbard, the main settlement of the Arctic Coal Company.
3/24/2008 9:28:08 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A view of Longyear City and Arctic Coal Company mine #1 on Tract 1 (Advent Bay). The aerial tramway used to transport coal from the mine to the dock is visible running across the mountain face.
3/24/2008 9:29:36 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear City and the Arctic Coal Company's Mine 1 on Tract 1 (Advent Bay). The photograph was probably taken early in the summer season.
3/24/2008 9:30:46 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The photographer is facing Advent Bay with Longyear City to his back. Over the crest of the ridge was the Arctic Coal Company's dock area, some indications of which are just visible in the photograph.
3/24/2008 9:32:05 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's mine 1, tract 1 (Advent Bay) with aerial tramway running to the company's dock and an inclined rail line running to the company's town, Longyear city.
3/24/2008 9:33:13 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company bought a house in Tromso in 1912 to accommodate permanent staff and part of its workforce going to or coming from Spitsbergen. Staff were reputedly satisfied that they no longer had to stay at Tromso's 'Grand Hotel' which was both expensive and uncomfortable.
3/24/2008 9:36:49 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows, better than any I've ever seen, the anticipation of working in Spitsbergen, an isolated land with climatic extremes. Most of these men are likely Scandinavian workers.
3/24/2008 9:39:53 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Scott Turner with six birds. Hunting was a favorite leisure activity for the Arctic Coal Company management and guests.
3/24/2008 9:42:30 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's dock on Advent Bay. The ship docked is the company's 'KWASIND.'
3/24/2008 9:50:22 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The 'KWASIND' being loaded with coal at the Arctic Coal Company's dock on Advent Bay.
3/24/2008 9:51:51 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's dock and warehouse area on Advent Bay. Warehouse #4, right, is under construction. Left of that are two more warehouses and the 'Engineers House' (far left). One of the company's ships, the KWASIND, is at the dock.
3/24/2008 9:54:40 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• John Munro Longyear standing by three claim signs at the intersection of Tract 1 (Advent Bay) and Tract 2 (Green Harbor), known as 'Coles Bay' or 'Coal Bay.'
3/24/2008 9:57:10 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's main settlement, Longyear City, and the company dock on Advent Bay.
3/24/2008 9:57:51 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Best guess is this was taken from swinging bridge.
3/24/2011 10:29:34 AM by mwdice@mtu.edu
• Fish Tug interior
3/24/2011 10:35:18 AM by mwdice@mtu.edu
• The rock shop was Jackman's Rock Shop owned by John & Mae Jackman the first house was owned by Wesley and Catherine Taipalous and the third house use to be the Grant Twp. Bldg.
3/25/2008 12:51:42 PM by Anonymous
• This photo also appears in The Michigan Tech Centennial on page 84.
3/25/2008 4:31:07 PM by Anonymous
• Based on the Movie Poster , I believe this is the June 6,1919 parade in downtown Houghton . The Movie When Girl Loves " was shown on June 6 & 7, 1919 -- Nicholas Faller"
3/25/2009 9:14:52 PM by Anonymous
• I was stationed there from April 1963 to April 1965. Was in Radio Maint. -- Jim Leiby
3/25/2013 8:21:57 AM by Anonymous
Name:Connie Julien
MTU Class of:1974
This photo has to be prior to January 9, 1927 when the Amphidrome ice rink in the photo burned to the ground.
3/25/2014 10:57:44 AM by Anonymous
• These people don't look starved," goes the description. Editorialize much?"
3/25/2014 7:48:29 PM by Anonymous
Name:Luanne Hamel
MTU Class of:
This is the strawberry dock for the Copper Country Strawberry Growers Association and was located on Chassell Bay. The strawberries were shipped by train in the early years and later by truck to markets in Chicago, Milwaukee,and Green Bay.
3/25/2015 8:03:37 PM by Anonymous
• The cemetery in the picture is referred to as the Protestant Cemetery"."
3/26/2009 11:20:02 PM by davef908
• Team. front row L-R Wills Dion, Ron Crouch,Truman Guard, Gordon Barkell, Robt. Tumperi, Robt.Guard. ?. Back row L-R Clouthier, Jim Probsfelt,..?????
3/26/2011 11:31:16 AM by Anonymous
Name:Dr. P.
MTU Class of:
Calumet High School and Washington Middle School. Superior stack is the taller one, and the boiler house stack is seen as well (still standing today).Calumet Methodist Church (corner of Church Street and Calumet Ave) is seen in the upper right of the image.
3/26/2012 11:59:54 AM by Anonymous
• Names of the players in the photograph are:Harry Edwards, Manager; Clarence Pryor, Spare; LeRoy Pryor, L. Wing;Albert Corbeille, Trainer; Arthur Krellwitz, Center; Leo Haas, Spare; Gordon Heughens, R. Wing; Howard Chynoweth, Goal; Will Trathen, Point; Russell Wortley, Rover
3/27/2007 12:40:37 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The players in the photograph are:Phil Penberthy, Trainer; Howard McCurdy, C. Point; Clarence Avery, Manager; Walter Healy, Spare; Leo Haas, Rover; LeRoy Pryor, Capt., L. Wing; Ruben Allie, Point; Howard Chynoweth, Goal; Edward Bassett, Center; Botsford McRae, R. Wing
3/27/2007 12:47:44 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Photo also appears in The Michigan Tech Centennial on page 87.
3/27/2008 4:30:24 PM by Anonymous
• This Photo also appears in The Michigan Tech Centennial on page 87. Frank J. Kohlhaas served as a member of the Michigan Tech Board of Control from 1935 to 1941.
3/27/2008 4:34:08 PM by Anonymous
• This was the original Campioni's Market in West Hancock. It was established by Guido and Mabel Campioni in the late 1920's. It was later run by Joseph and Margaret Campioni until their deaths. It was later run by their son Bill and then after his death by his sister Mary Anne Crooks. She sold it to the Keweenaw Coop. -- Jan Campioni
3/27/2009 8:52:49 AM by Anonymous
Name:Hilary
MTU Class of:
Could this be Ironwood? There is/was a Ben Gertz Furniture store at 134 W Aurora (I believe).
3/27/2010 11:44:23 AM by Anonymous
• This might be a view looking south from the west of Mine Street at the Hecla shafts and engine houses.
3/27/2013 11:50:44 AM by Anonymous
Name:Archivist

Anonymous - please note that the source of this description is from the back of the photograph. Any comments in brackets are by the cataloger, anything else is by the photographer or previous owners.
3/27/2014 8:45:36 AM by Anonymous
• The players in the photograph are:J. T. Healy, 3d B. and P.,; W. Mutter, 1st B.; G. Witte, C. F.; P. Delaney, S.S.; W. Brand, 2nd B.; C. Roulo, L.F.; E. F. Douglass, Manager; J. Minnehan, R.F.; F. Haas, C.; T. Larson, P.
3/28/2007 1:07:16 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• List of players in the photograph are:Munch, C. Field; Mattson, Pitch; Usimaki, Pitch; Ahola, Scorer; Storm, R. Field; Jacobson, T. Base; Abramson, F. Base; Peterson, Catch; Hovinen, Sub; Lehto, Coach; O'Neill, Manager; Bettison, (Capt.), S. Stop; Lenz, F. Base; Goodreau, L. Field; Wahl, S. Base
3/28/2007 1:14:24 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• List of players in the photograph are:FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: J. Steimle, Scorer; R. Burke, R. Field; F. Bezotte, Sub.; J. Hanley, Mgr.; H. Yunkari, L. Field; G. Nancarrow, 3rd Base; F. Austin, UmpireSECOND ROW: P. Priniski, Left Short.; M. Messner, 1st Base and Capt.; M. Weisen, 2nd Base; E. Holman, Right Short.BOTTOM ROW: J. Burke, Pitcher; B. Bartlett, Catcher
3/28/2007 1:20:10 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• That looks like the current No. 2 shaft, so post-1908 at least.
3/28/2011 2:37:59 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dr. P
MTU Class of:
Came down those stairs many times as a child during the mandatory fire drills...
3/28/2012 3:52:20 PM by Anonymous
• I would call it Methodist Episcopal, as the denomination was commonly known at the time (M.E.) We call it Methodist now, but the former, combined name causes some confusion.
3/28/2015 11:19:42 PM by Anonymous
• This picture is not of the Onigaming Yacht Club House, but rather of the club's bath changing house, a separate structure.
3/29/2010 3:00:10 PM by Anonymous
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the report reads: Lower end of Surface Tramway, Bridge to Dock, Dock and S. S. William D. Munroe. Whaling Gun Boat at Dock. Advent Bay, August, 1908 (9364).""
3/3/2008 10:01:26 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the report reads: Green Harbor from Whaling Station. August, 1909 (10561).""
3/3/2008 10:03:15 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.)
3/3/2008 10:07:14 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.)
3/3/2008 10:07:29 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: Photograph of type of post used by Ayer & Longyear for staking claims on Spitzbergen. A full description of boundaries is always put on back of board.""
3/3/2008 10:11:41 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: A Photograph of the portable hut erected by the Green Harbor Coal Company on our lands at Green Harbor, July, 1909.""
3/3/2008 10:13:38 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the wharf related facilities of the Arctic Coal Company. The power plant is the gabled building to the left of the rail lines running up the hill. The rail lines connect a coal storage pile on the ridge above to the dock. The aerial tramway connects the coal mine (Mine 1) to the end of the dock.
3/3/2008 10:49:04 AM by Anonymous
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: Lower end of Surface Tramway, Bridge to Dock, Dock and S. S. William D. Munroe. Whaling Gun Boat at Dock. Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, August, 1908 (9364).""
3/3/2008 11:00:33 AM by Anonymous
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: Mine Mouth, Coal Storage Bin (capacity 1,200 tons), Upper half of Aerial Tramway and Camp. Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, August, 1909 (10576).""
3/3/2008 11:01:54 AM by Anonymous
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: A/S Spitzbergen, Lars Iversen House, Green Harbor Coal Co. Hut and part of the eastern side of Green Harbor. August, 1909 (10552).""
3/3/2008 11:04:39 AM by Anonymous
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: Ship of Norwegian Scientific Expedition, Lars Iversen House, Green Harbor Coal Co. Hut and eastern side of Green Harbor from a point. Finnaes to Rendalen. August, 1909 (10553).""
3/3/2008 11:06:05 AM by Anonymous
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: Chartered S. S. Locksley loading at Dock, Kong Harald and Neptune waiting to be coaled. Advent Bay, August, 1909 (10571).""
3/3/2008 11:07:16 AM by Anonymous
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the report reads: 1. Panoramic view of northwesterly side of Longyear Valley, Camp, Mine Mouth, Aerial Tramway from Mine to Dock. Chartered S.S. Locksley loading at dock, and Company S.S. William D. Munroe at anchor in Bay. Advent Bay, August, 1909.""
3/3/2008 9:58:46 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
Name:Jack Jobst
MTU Class of:
The Knights of Columbus hall stood at 504 Huron St., where now (2012) is located the Suomi Restaurant. The building is barely visible at the left, between the pedestrian and the mailbox.
3/3/2012 4:18:18 PM by Anonymous
Name:Jennifer Bukovich
MTU Class of:
From left to right, Mike, Joe and Tony Bukovich
3/3/2015 6:22:21 PM by Anonymous
• The cemetery is actually the Hancock Catholic not the Hecla
3/30/2007 4:03:05 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is taken from the senior side of the assembly. The assembly room was organized with the freshman on the left side when facing the stage and then the sophmores, juniors and seniors as one moves to the right. -- George Mackey, MTU BS 1964 MS 1966
3/30/2009 7:13:01 PM by Anonymous
• also known back in the day as curto's saloon. started by mark curto in 1890.

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3/30/2012 11:29:13 PM by bcurto
• also known back in the day as curto's saloon. started by mark curto in 1890.

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3/30/2012 11:29:28 PM by bcurto
• Per the Copper Country Explorer website the building in the background is the La Rose Hotel not the Opera House.
3/30/2012 12:27:37 PM by Anonymous
• The dock area of the Arctic Coal Company, including dock, warehouses, a power-house, coal stockpile, and aerial tramway.
3/31/2008 11:08:12 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The timber dock of the Arctic Coal Company. The dock still exists, having been expanded and altered over time.
3/31/2008 11:09:31 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The facilities associated with the Arctic Coal Company's Mine 1, on tract 1. The inclined rail line connected with a surface rail line which ran through Longyear City to the company dock. The building shown is building #13 and was a 10-room family house.
3/31/2008 11:14:47 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• At the beginning of the summer season, the Arctic Coal Company regularly faced an ice-pack which blocked access to Longyear City, its main center of operations. The company often attempted to break through the ice as much as possible, as is shown by this photograph.
3/31/2008 11:17:42 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's dock for its Tract 1 operations, adjacent Longyear City. The ship, the W. D. Munroe, is an old whaling vessel adapted to carry coal, men and equipment. It appears that the ship is being filled with coal in this photograph, both by rail and by an aerial tramway.
3/31/2008 11:23:29 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's dock area of its Tract 1 operations, on Advent Bay. This rail incline connects the company's coal stockpile with the dock. Rail cars would go down one line and up the other.
3/31/2008 11:25:12 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's first crane, known as the Hayward Crane, which was used to transfer coal from the stockpile to rail cars. The crane was notoriously undependable and broke down continuously requiring ongoing repair work.
3/31/2008 11:27:10 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Horses and eqipment on what appears to be the Arctic Coal Company's ship, the W. D. Munroe. This ship was often the backbone of the company's sea transport needs, as it carried most of the equipment and men to and from the coal-fields of Spitsbergen.
3/31/2008 11:29:28 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's dock on Advent Bay. The photograph appears to have been taken in the early summer season when the Spitsbergen waters are still thawing.
3/31/2008 11:31:54 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear Valley, or Longyeardalen in Norwegian. Longyear City, the Arctic Coal Company's main settlement, is visible below the mountain. Mine 1 and the company's aerial tramway is visible on the mountain slopes.
3/31/2008 11:33:35 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The east side of Green Harbor, Svalbard. The Arctic Coal Company's bunkhouse and shed is visible on the hill above the harbor. The company's mine 1, of Tract 2 (Green Harbor), was on the slopes above the bunkhouse. A section of the Green Harbor Coal Co.'s aerial tramway is visible on the right-hand side of the photograph.
3/31/2008 11:45:22 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• An image of Finneset, Green Harbor, including a whaling station and a wireless radio transmission station.
3/31/2008 11:50:07 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph looks at the East-side of Green Harbor. The Arctic Coal Company's bunkhouse is visible on the hillside (center-left) and the Green Harbor Coal Co.'s / Anker's hut is visible (right). Several small coal mines were located on the slopes above.
3/31/2008 11:55:03 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• J. M. Longyear, president of the Arctic Coal Company, looking at whale remains by a whaling station located on Finneset, Green Harbor.
3/31/2008 11:56:12 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows men associated with the Arctic Coal Company, including J. M. Longyear (president) walking up the slopes of the east side of Green Harbor. The Arctic Coal Company's bunkhouse of htis location is visible center-left. A dock and whaling station is visible on a point known as 'Finneset' in the background.
3/31/2008 11:59:55 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Two staff members of the Arctic Coal Company (Fletcher is right and Gilson is left). Alfred Fletcher, an old friend of Scott Turner (the general manager), worked for the company for the summer of 1912. He managed the company store, developed an inventory of the warehouses and other general tasks. Fletcher was interested in becoming the company's general manager after Scott Turner but the operation was sold before that was possible. K. L. Gilson was a Norwegian / American mining engineer who worked as the company clerk until the operation was sold in 1916.
3/31/2008 1:31:01 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• MacGavin (center), an old friend of Scott Turner, led the Arctic Coal Company's geological survey of part of their coal land claims from 1912-1913. Gilson (left), a Norwegian / American mining engineer, was the company clerk from 1907-1916.
3/31/2008 1:36:59 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Drummond MacGavin, geologist for the Arctic Coal Company. MacGavin led the company's geological survey of its lands in 1912-1913 which aimed to determine the approximate extent and nature of the coal resource in part of its coal land claims.
3/31/2008 1:42:09 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Hello! My name is Ulf Gustafsson and i work together with researchers from MTU within the IPY Project: please note that the correct web address is www.lashipa.nl Best regardsUlf Gustafsson
3/31/2008 2:34:20 PM by Anonymous
• Ths freighter is one of those self unloaders that were owned by the Wyandotte Chemical Company of Wyandotte, Mich. Can see Chief Wyandotte symbol on the stack.
3/31/2010 10:22:15 PM by Anonymous
• Johnson Vivian, Jr. was very interested in gardening and he hired a gardner in addition, to maintain the grounds. The garden contained a large sandstone sun dial in the center and beds radiating from it all outlined by rocks. A rose arbor was constructed of piping covered with chicken wire on which roses climbed. The arbor was over a side door from the garage, which opened onto the garden. Vines covered portions of the front porch to screen members of the family, who might be sitting there from public view. The conservatory on the Third Street side was also covered in vines which made it more attractive. The lawns were all carefully manicured to compliment the beautiful gardens. People would drive out from Houghton on a Sunday, just to see the garden. [Information taken from the Johnson Vivian collection donated by Charles Stetter. Mr. Vivian owned the mansion located at 240 Pewabic Street in Laurium, which still stands today.]
3/31/2010 12:45:14 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Looks like Phoenix, the little bridge would be where the railroad ran over the creek, under the bridge they are jumping off was a dam which provided water for the fire protection.Now this would be M26 heading towards Eagle River.The buildings behind them would be the machine shop and enginehouse for the railroad I believe
3/31/2010 6:52:49 PM by yooper557
• This photo also appears in the Michigan Tech Centennial on page 68.
3/4/2008 2:45:36 PM by Anonymous
• This photo also appears in the Michigan Tech Centennial on page 68.
3/4/2008 2:50:10 PM by Anonymous
• This photo also appears in the Michigan Tech Centennial on page 69.
3/4/2008 3:07:02 PM by Anonymous
• This is a view of the Robbins/West Vein Mine taken from the bluff to the west, looking east towards Phoenix, taken prior to 1905.
3/4/2008 3:37:53 PM by Anonymous
• This is also the Robbins/West Vein mine prior to 1905, taken near the railroad tracks southeast of the mine, shooting westward. KF
3/4/2008 3:41:15 PM by Anonymous
• Image MS044-002-012-003 is probably shafthouse No. 6; image MS044-002-012-004 is probably shafthouse No. 2.
3/4/2008 5:05:17 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Love this picture! My gg grandfather, Otto Kunath, is in the front row, far right. Saw it on the City of Hancock site (historical pics), but his name is spelled incorrectly there. M. Lamb
3/4/2011 8:10:51 PM by Anonymous
• Maude has a book that is available at the Portage library--titled:Maude Sincock Roberts----donated by the family of Maude in Jan 2012--In honor and rememberance of her this 100th year of the sinking of the Titanic.
3/4/2012 4:31:03 PM by Anonymous
• After hearing the horn, as a granddaughter of Nellie Harris Hanchette we(with my brothers and sister)would run down the hill from her house (Sam B. Harris's home)on Center St. in Hancock and ride on the bridge when it turned to let freighters go through, in the early 1930s. A thrill!
3/5/2007 2:50:26 PM by Nancy Wilder
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: Dock, Winter Storage Pile and Lower End of Aerial Tramway. Advent Bay, Spitzbergen (Chartered S. S. Locksley at dock). Kong Harald and Neptune, Tourist Ships. August, 1909 (10572).""
3/5/2008 1:43:11 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: Storage Bin, Loading Station of Aerial Tramway and Pathway from Camp to Mine. Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, August, 1909 (10579)."Note the workers which can be seen walking on the path. At the end of the path is a small store room / blacksmiths shop, presumably used to sharpen mining tools, and a privy."
3/5/2008 1:46:23 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: Part of Storage Bin, and upper end of Aerial Tramway. Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, August, 1909 (10577).""
3/5/2008 1:46:41 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: A/S Spitzbergen’s Whaling Station on Finnaes, and part of eastern side of Green Harbor. August, 1909 (10551)."The Arctic Coal Company maintained two small coal mines on the hillside seen here. "
3/5/2008 1:48:51 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: Camp, Mine Mouth, and about one-half Aerial Tramway. Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, August, 1908 (9361).""
3/5/2008 1:49:33 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph is associated with a letter from the Arctic Coal Company and Frederick Ayer and John M. Longyear to the U.S. Secretary of State, Honorable P. C. Knox, dated 27 December, 1909 (available in the MTU archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 1, Folder 13.) The photo caption in the letter reads: Camp, Mine Mouth, and upper end of Aerial Tramway. Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, August, 1909 (10618)."A new concrete barn is under construction in the center of the photograph. The building on the far right is the Arctic Coal Company staff house."
3/5/2008 1:50:20 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The manager’s report of 1910 describes several construction works made that year which are visible in the photograph. It reads on page 3 “This tramway was afterwards completed from the camp up to the mine, this part being placed on a trestle about five feet high, to keep it free from snow in the winter, and an electric haulage gear placed at the top for the purpose of hauling materials to the mine and for riding the men to and from work. This should increase the working efficiency about ten per cent as during the winter it requires about forty to forty five minutes to walk from the camp to the mine, while the men can be hauled up in about three minutes.” The improved tramway can be seen in running up the hill, across the photograph.It reads on page 4 “Three double houses were erected, each containing ten rooms, for the purpose of establishing families in the camp.” The houses described are the three buildings in a line closest to the photographer.This source is available in the MTU archives. Reference: Arctic Coal Company General Manager’s Report for the year ending October 27th, 1910. Jno. Gibson, Jr. General Manager, Arctic Coal Company, November 5th, 1910. Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 4, Folder 23.
3/5/2008 1:50:44 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows a steam crane, known as the Hayward Steam-Crane, loading coal into a hopper which, in turn, loads coal rail cars. The Arctic Coal Company would store most of the coal it mined over winter months on a stockpile overlooking the wharfing area. During summer, cranes would load the coal onto rail cars which would run down an incline plane and to the edge of the company dock to load ships. The crane was soon found to be highly unreliable and prone to breakdowns.The manager’s report of 1910 describes the construction works made that year in the area shown: “The incline plane connecting the winter stock pile and the bridge to the dock and the bridge from the shore to the dock were both widened to accommodate the larger cars used this year. … A steel traveler operating a clam shell for loading the winter stock coal, with a capacity of between six to seven hundred tons per shift of ten hours, was erected, thoroughly tested and found to meet all expectations.”This source is available in the MTU archives. Reference: Arctic Coal Company General Manager’s Report for the year ending October 27th, 1910. Jno. Gibson, Jr. General Manager, Arctic Coal Company, November 5th, 1910. Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 4, Folder 23.
3/5/2008 1:51:10 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows a rail line running up hill to the Arctic Coal Company’s No.1 mine, coal storage pocket and aerial tramway terminal. The manager’s report of 1910 describes work made on the tramway that year: “This tramway was afterwards completed from the camp up to the mine, this part being placed on a trestle about five feet high, to keep it free from snow in the winter, and an electric haulage gear placed at the top for the purpose of hauling materials to the mine and for riding the men to and from work. This should increase the working efficiency about ten per cent as during the winter it requires about forty to forty five minutes to walk from the camp to the mine, while the men can be hauled up in about three minutes.” The improved tramway can be seen in running up the hill, across the photograph.This source is available in the MTU archives. Reference: Arctic Coal Company General Manager’s Report for the year ending October 27th, 1910. Jno. Gibson, Jr. General Manager, Arctic Coal Company, November 5th, 1910. Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 4, Folder 23.
3/5/2008 1:51:29 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the primary buildings of the Arctic Coal Company’s wharfing and storage area, located adjacent its dock on Advent Bay. The buildings from left to right are the ‘engineer’s house,’ the powerhouse, and warehouse #1. On the hill above the buildings is the company’s coal stockpile.
3/5/2008 1:52:07 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph the Arctic Coal Company’s powerhouse. The chute carried coal to the building from a stockpile above. The steam pipe seen on supports running out of the front of the building connected to a nearby winch house which propelled rail cars along the dock.The manager’s report of 1910 describes the work made on the powerhouse that year: “The power house which was started in the fall of 1909 was completed”, “The following machinery was then placed in the power house, which had by this time been completed:- Two British Westinghouse Generators of seventy five K.W. capacity each, driven by Browett Marine Engines, generating three phase current, fifty cycles and a voltage of twenty two hundred. Complete switchgear for controlling the above machines and a small transformer to transfer the current to four hundred volts for use in the power house, driving condenser and shop motors and for lighting purposes. Two one hundred H.P. Scotch Marine Boilers carrying a steam pressure of one hundred and fifty pounds and tested for three hundred pounds per square inch. Two large iron water tanks (capacity about 20,000 gallons) for the purpose of storing water for use during the winter. One Surface condenser, capable of condensing the steam from one generator while working under full load. One machine shop containing lathe, shaper, emory grinder and press drill.”This source is available in the MTU archives. Reference: Arctic Coal Company General Manager’s Report for the year ending October 27th, 1910. Jno. Gibson, Jr. General Manager, Arctic Coal Company, November 5th, 1910. Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, MS-031, Box 4, Folder 23.
3/5/2008 1:52:32 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the Arctic Coal Company’s storage and wharfing area on Advent Bay. The buildings visible, from left to right, are warehouse #1, the ‘engineer’s house,’ the winch house, and the power house. Above them is the Hayward Steam-Crane adjacent the company’s coal stockpile.
3/5/2008 1:52:59 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the primary buildings of the Arctic Coal Company’s wharfing and storage area, located adjacent its dock on Advent Bay. The buildings from left to right are the ‘engineer’s house,’ the powerhouse, and warehouse #1. On the hill above the buildings is the company’s coal stockpile.
3/5/2008 1:53:12 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the Arctic Coal Company’s dock under construction. The dock was designed in 1906 and constructed from 1907 – 1908. In 1908, the company added a timber aerial tramway terminal to the structure seen here, which was used to load coal to docked ships.
3/5/2008 1:53:52 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the Arctic Coal Company’s settlement, Longyear City, probably in 1908. The ‘Jinny’ referred to in the caption was a jinny track or simple narrow gauge railway, which ran up the hill from near the settlement to Mine 1.
3/5/2008 1:54:33 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows The Spitsbergen Coal and Trading Company’s camp on the east side of Advent Bay, across the bay from the Arctic Coal Company. Originally developed by the Norwegian company, Bergen Spitzbergen Kulgrubekompni, in 1903, it was bought out by the English company, The Spitsbergen Coal and Trading Company, in 1904. The operation was a failure and it closed in 1908. More information on the history of this company can be found in the report The Arctic Coal Company and Industrial Heritage on Svalbard. Research and Training in August 2004. This report is available on-line at www.lahsipa.nl under downloads.
3/5/2008 2:03:21 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• These structures stand outside the Arctic Coal Company's Mine 1, on Advent Bay. The buildings were built of concrete and steel because the original buildings here, built of wood, burned.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 3:34:30 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This structure stood outside the Arctic Coal Company's Mine 1 at Advent Bay. It was built in 1913 to replace a similar structure built of wood which burned in 1911.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 3:40:37 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph, taken in 1910-11, shows Longyear City, the main settlement of the Arctic Coal Company.
3/5/2008 3:47:11 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the coal stockpile of the Arctic Coal Company. Coal mined from Mine 1 was transported here by an aerial tramway and transferred to an endless ropeway, running in a perpendicular direction, which distributed the coal over the stockpile. During the summer shipping season, cranes (one is visible behind the tower on the left) transferred the coal to rail cars which ran to ships' sides.
3/5/2008 3:57:36 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows Longyear City, the main settlement of the Arctic Coal Company, in 1907. In the foreground is narrow gauge railway which connected the town with the company dock.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 4:06:37 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• 'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 4:07:05 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• 'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 4:07:21 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• 'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 4:07:33 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• 'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 4:09:30 PM by Anonymous
• This house, 34' by 17', was located adjacent the Arctic Coal Company mine No. 2, on Advent Bay. The house was originally in Advent City, on the east side of the Advent Bay. In 1913, the Arctic Coal Company moved the house to this location.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 4:21:33 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The entry to the Arctic Coal Company mine No.2.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 4:22:16 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Interior of a whale blubber factory, known as A/S Spitzbergen or A/S Nimrod, which was located in Finneset, in Green Harbor, Spitsbergen.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 4:30:09 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• View of the A/S Spitzbergen, or A/S Nimrod, whaling complex on Finneset, Green Harbor.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 4:31:34 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the Arctic Coal Company rail line from the Longyear City settlement to Mine 1. The building on the left is a 4-apartment family house.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 4:55:17 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The photograph shows the Arctic Coal Company staffhouse, which was built in Longyear City in 1908. The building was the most ornate the company ever built.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 6:12:53 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In the background is the power transformer house (left) and the foreman's barrack (right). 'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 6:15:58 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the Arctic Coal Company office building in Longyear City. The company's 1912 annual report states: A roomy new office-building, with a partially-completed concrete vault, good draughting room, and various office-rooms, was built toward teh end of the season. THis fills a long-felt want, as no suitable building has heretofore been available for office purposes." (Arctic Coal Company Annual Report, October 1, 1911 to October 1, 1912, Scott Turner, General Manager, Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Scott Turner Collection, Box Z, Folder Z13). The company's 1913 annual report reads: "The new office was finished, painted and equipped, and a roomy concrete vault with a chubb safe-door was built." (Arctic Coal Company Annual Report, October 1, 1912 to August 31, 1913, Scott Turner, General Manager, Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, Box 4, Folder 13.)'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'"
3/5/2008 6:22:28 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Bill Gibbs is standing outside the Arctic Coal Company's mine 1, in Advent Valley.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 6:27:14 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows The Spitsbergen Coal and Trading Company’s camp, known as Advent City, on the east side of Advent Bay, across the bay from the Arctic Coal Company. Originally developed by the Norwegian company, Bergen Spitzbergen Kulgrubekompni, in 1903, it was bought out by the English company, The Spitsbergen Coal and Trading Company, in 1904. The operation was a failure and it closed in 1908. More information on the history of this company can be found in the report The Arctic Coal Company and Industrial Heritage on Svalbard. Research and Training in August 2004. This report is available on-line at www.lahsipa.nl under downloads.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 6:31:49 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The storage and wharfing area of the Arctic Coal Company. Five warehouses and one house (left) are shown as is the company dock in the distance.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 6:40:28 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The foreman's barrack in Longyear City, built 1913. Behind it is the company staff house. The company's 1913 annual report reads: A concrete foremen's house, with 14 bedrooms, was started, and will be finished in October. (Arctic Coal Company Annual Report, October 1, 1912 to August 31, 1913, Scott Turner, General Manager, Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, Box 4, Folder 13.)'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'"
3/5/2008 6:46:15 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company store and warehouse #3. The building was originally a hotel placed on Advent Point, on Advent Fjord. The building was prefabricated in Norway and built in 1896 by Vesteraalen Seamship Company, and could accommodate 25 guests. The Arctic Coal Company bought the hotel in 1905 for use in its coal mining operations. The company moved the building to this location, Longyear City, in 1908. A wide variety of goods were sold here, apparently at a very reasonable price. (source: Nathan Haskall Dole, 1922. America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal Mine." (Boston: Marshall Jones Company.)'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'"
3/5/2008 6:54:58 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• View of Longyear City, now Longyearbyen, in 1915. On the mountain is the Arctic Coal Company's mine 1 and aerial tramway leading to the company dock. 'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 6:56:05 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's storage and wharfing area in 1915. The building in the foreground is the 'Engineer's House,' which was originally built on nearby Advent Point, or Munroe Point, in 1906 and moved to this location in 1910 or 1911. A docked ship is being filled with coal for transportation to Norwegian markets.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/5/2008 7:02:03 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Suo School was built around 1911. It was located on land that was leased to Portage Township by my Great Grandparents, Jacob Onkalo and Aliina (Laitila) Onkalo. Once the school closed (in the late 20's) the land went back to them and the building was used as a home for many families. It was torn down in the 1960's.The area where the school was built was known as the Suo District"which means "Swamp" in Finnish. Today it's more known as "Onkalo's Corner"."
3/5/2011 5:49:29 PM by BPapke
• The dates on the tombstone on the right appear to read, Born: Dec. 18, 1825; Died: Oct. 11, 1849. This would have made Pricilla Slawson 24 years old when she died.
3/5/2015 11:09:25 AM by sawyernewman2
• The dates on the tombstone on the right appear to read, Born: Dec. 18, 1825; Died: Oct. 11, 1849. This would have made Pricilla Slawson 24 years old when she died.
3/5/2015 1:32:04 PM by sawyernewman2
• Longyear City, of the Arctic Coal Company. The building on the left is a 1 1/2 story concrete stable, built in 1909, with space for twelve animals and feed.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/6/2008 10:04:47 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The wharfing area of Longyear City, developed by the Arctic Coal Company. The building in the foreground is the company's powerhouse which powered lighting and machinery in their coal mine.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/6/2008 10:06:13 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's bunkhouse #5, in Longyear City. Built in 1912, the bunkhouse was built to accommodate 64 men and was divided internally into rooms for four men.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/6/2008 10:10:55 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A building built by the Arctic Coal Company in Longyear City, used to house its workers.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/6/2008 10:13:02 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Photograph of the Arctic Coal Company's wharfing and storage area taken from the end of its dock. A line of coal rail cars are visible on a rail track. In the background, on the top of the rise, is the company's coal stockpile which will be transferred to rail cars and taken to coal ships. The company's aerial tramway seen here connected the dock with mine 1.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/6/2008 10:17:12 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's wireless station in Longyear City. Built in 1911, it was designed to transmit to a Norwegian station in nearby Green Harbor which would relay messages to mainland Norway and onwards. The station could also connect to company ships coming to or from Spitsbergen. The station was vital to co-ordinate the company activities on Spitsbergen.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/6/2008 10:23:07 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's office building, built in 1912-13, in Longyear City. The company's annual report reads A roomy new office-building, with a partially-completed concrete vault, good draughting room, and various office-rooms, was built toward the end of the season. This fills a long-felt want, as no suitable building has heretofore been available for office purposes." (Arctic Coal Company Annual Report, October 1, 1911 to October 1, 1912, Scott Turner, General Manager, Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Scott Turner Collection, Box Z, Folder Z13.) The company's 1913 annual report reads: "The new office was finished, painted and equipped, and a roomy concrete vault with a chubb safe-door was built." (Arctic Coal Company Annual Report, October 1, 1912 to August 31, 1913, Scott Turner, General Manager, Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, Box 4, Folder 13.)'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'"
3/6/2008 10:27:36 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Appears to be a continuation of MTU Neg 00620.
3/6/2008 3:32:04 PM by Anonymous
• Appears to be a continuation of MTU Neg 0171.
3/6/2008 3:33:26 PM by Anonymous
• Appears to be a continuation of MTU Neg 00171.
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• Appears to be a continuation of MTU Neg 0187.
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• Appears to be a continuation of MTU Neg 00102.
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• Appears to be a continuation of MTU Neg 00099.
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• Appears to be a continuation of MTU Neg 00606.
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3/6/2008 4:06:19 PM by Anonymous
• This photograph shows a double family house built by the Arctic Coal Company in Longyear City in 1912. The company built these to provide better accommodation for its higher ranking staff and allow wives to accompany their husbands here. Three identical houses of this form were built by the company (a second is visible in the background.)'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/6/2008 9:40:06 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A photograph of bunkhouse #6, built by the Arctic Coal Company in Longyear City in 1913. The interior was likely divided into rooms for four men. The company's 1913 annual report reads: A big bunkhouse, No.6, the duplicate of No.5, to hold 64 men, was built, and the concrete-walled basement was equipped with shelves and hot water heating system to store 60 tons of potatoes (Arctic Coal Company Annual Report, October 1, 1912 to August 31, 1913, Scott Turner, General Manager, Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Longyear Collection, Box 4, Folder 13.)'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'"
3/6/2008 9:54:47 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company staff house in Longyear City, built in 1908.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/6/2008 9:56:16 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Mining machinery inside Mine 1 of the Arctic Coal Company, Advent Bay.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/6/2008 9:57:10 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear City, developed by the Arctic Coal Company.'Spitzbergen' is also spelled 'Spitsbergen,' and is now known as 'Svalbard.'
3/6/2008 9:57:55 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Stationed at Calumet AFS from tech school from 1961 to 1962. Worked on FPS-64, FPS-6s & DMCC. Lived off-base in Kearsarge. Recall incident involving civilians from D.C.think Tank" that resulted in a simulated NORAD mission that accidentally increased alert status to DEFCON 3 or 2. General Curtis LeMay was at lunch and recalled back to the Pentagon. Interceptors were scrambled to locate simulated bogies. CO gone in 30 days. "
3/6/2011 12:13:17 AM by Anonymous
• The Township Hall was the Liminga School.
3/6/2015 8:51:19 PM by Anonymous
• This roadway" was the RR track of the Atlantic Mine to bring the ore to the stamp mill in Redridge. "
3/6/2015 8:55:06 PM by Anonymous
• There was a major rebuild" of US 41, between Delaware and Copper Harbor in 1931; it was one of the first work relief road construction projects undertaken in Keweenaw County and is referenced in the records of the Keweenaw County Road Commission. I suspect that this view is of "41" looking up the hill, towards what was then called the Keweenaw Park and Cabins (today, the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge), from the Copper Harbor end of the road. My research indicates that 1930-era Copper Harbor residents called the road & hill by the name of "railing hill;" it was one of the first routes in Keweenaw County to have a guard rail. Paul LaVanway"
3/7/2009 8:43:59 AM by Anonymous
• This is a photograph taken adjacent to the entrance to the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge, looking towards the north or northwest. West Bluff (i.e., Brockway Mountain Drive) is clearly visible in the distance. The wall visible at the top of Brockway Mountain Drive is what at the time was called Hartman's View" and was named after the then Chairman of the Keweenaw County Road Commision. The date of the photograph would be 1934 or after. The wire rope guard rails visible in the foreground have since been replaced with continuous galvanized steel rails. Paul LaVanway"
3/7/2009 8:54:13 AM by Anonymous
• I had been told by an 'old timer' several years ago that this is the schooner FELICTOUS taken in 1888 at the Burger & burger shipyard. I have since found the same photograph in the Manitowoc County Historical Society archives
3/7/2013 11:20:14 AM by Anonymous
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3/8/2012 4:07:33 PM by Anonymous
• This is looking west on Oak Street at 8th Street in Red Jacket (Calumet). The four-story building on the corner is the Bollman Block, home to the Red Jacket branch of the Leiblein wholesale business for many years. - Jeremiah Mason
3/8/2013 2:46:29 PM by Anonymous
• This picture should be titled Mass Consolidated Mining Company B Shaft"The photographer of this picture (as well as many others of this same viewpoint) was taken from the poor rock pile of the Evergreen Bluff Mine which was located on the bluff higher than B Shaft. The house on the bottom right is part of the Evergreen Bluff community (The Evergreen Bluff Mine was one of the early mines of the area, starting as an organized mining company in 1853 and was eventually bought by the Mass Consolidated Mining Company (MCMC) in 1912. B Shaft was started in 1900 and the poor rock pile pictured is fairly large and the pile is following the property line between the MCMC property and the Evergreen property.The B Shaft structure was the most significant structure of the MCMC. It is the rail load out for both A Shaft and B Shaft and most of the tons of copper ore were shipped from this location (S Shaft became the third shaft that shipped the rest of copper ore and eventually got it's own rock house and rail load 1906). A Shaft is in the distance connected by the elevated trestle (shown on the opposite side of the B Shaft Structure). A Shaft was originally the Ridge Mine Shaft #3. Copper ore from A shaft is hoisted out of the ground and transferred onto tram cars which would then make their way down the elevated trestle into the overhead railroad loadout bins of B Shaft. The Evergreen lode of vein dips into the earth at a 43 degree angle to the left of this photo. The rails for the skip cars are going into the ground to the left of this photo. The small building to the left of the B Shaft structure is covering the shaft. Miners either climbed down ladderways at this point or got into the skips to ride down. As kids, my father and his friends would dare each other as to how far they would climb down the wooden ladders into B Shaft. The building smoking in the distance is the Engine House for both B Shaft and A Shaft. The MCMC used a dual hoist system. As the skip car was going down in A Shaft it would pulling up the skip car in B Shaft. The stanchions from B Shaft to the Engine house can be clearly seen between the large poor rock pile of B Shaft. The hoist cable would run on pulleys between the Engine House and B Shaft.You can also see an elevated rail trestle to the left of the Engine House. Coal was shipped from the MCMC wharf at the MCMC Stamp Mill at Keweenaw Bay and unloaded in a stockpile which was parallel to the Engine House. Coal was the fuel used to create the steam for the hoists, the air compressor, and the electrical generator. You can barely see the railroad trestle just above the circular blemish of the photograph at the end of the top of the poor rock pile of B Shaft. This is where the Mineral Range entered the MCMC property and crossed the Flintsteel River. The end of that Mineral Range line is literally a couple hundred feet beyond B Shaft (just below the photographer). You can barely see the MCMC mine office which is to the right of the opposite side of the trestle (in-between the evergreens). This was the original mine office of the Ridge Mine (Organized in 1856 and bought by the MCMC in 1899). The Ridge Mine was one of the few "dividend" paying copper mines of Ontonagon County and was the "heart" of the Mass Consolidated Mine. The MCMC and the Minesota were the others. A Shaft was originally Ridge #3 Shaft and when the MCMC took over the shaft was already down over 500 feet (possible 700 feet) and was "dewatered" and put to work immediately. B and C shaft were started from the ground level. The Ridge as well as the MCMC was known for its native silver - a half breed of pure native silver and copper is shown as a specimen labeled "The Ridge Mine" in the mineralogy museum at Harvard. Harvard at one time actually trained mining engineers.Ridge Shafts #2 and #3 were located along the elevated tramway between A Shaft and B Shaft. "
3/9/2007 1:47:35 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is incorrectly labeled. This photograph should be labeled B" shaft and not "D" shaft. D shaft was only an exploratory shaft. The Mass Consolidated Mining Company only had two rail load outs - one at "B" Shaft and the other at "C" shaft.See detailed explanation of the B Shaft structure as well as a different point of view of the B shaft by looking at the comments and MTU photo's #00637 and #00522B Shaft was the most significant structure at the mine of the Mass Consolidated Mining Company (MCMC). The stamp mill at Keweenaw Bay is the most significant structure built by the company, but B Shaft was the most significant structure built at the mine site.Mineral Range ore cars are show in the picture. The end of the rail line is literally a couple hundred feet to the right of the railcars. The actually shaft collar is covered by the small structure to the left of the photograph. You can see what looks like a six ton skip car in front of the building. The shaft followed the Evergreen Vein (lode) which is roughly 43 degrees from horizontal. The exposed rails between the B Shaft structure and the structure above the collar clearly show the angle in which the actually shaft was driven into the ground. The elevated trestle to the left of the B Shaft connects A Shaft with B Shaft. Ore hoisted out of the ground at A shaft was dumped into tram cars which made their way down the 880 foot elevated trestle from A Shaft and into the overhead rail load out bins of B Shaft. Most of the ore to be stamped was loaded here at B Shaft - the rest was loaded at C Shaft which eventually had its own "rock house" (overhead rail load out) completed in 1906. B Shaft was started in 1900. Smoke can be seen from a support building to the left. We (The Lukkarila Family) have a picture of my great grandfather, Jafet Lukkarila (timekeeper) with Captain Wilcox in front of this support building. Steam or compressed air could have been created at this building to possible power equipment in the B Shaft Structure (there were crushers located in the B Shaft structure but I'm not sure if they were "electric" or belt driven - steam)The photographer is facing south east. B Shaft operated from 1900 until the mine closed in 1919 and reached a depth of over 1600 feet – the maximum depth of the hoist system.Jay LukkarilaMining EngineerICRUSHROCK@aol.com "
3/9/2007 2:12:20 PM by Anonymous
• This photogragh should be labeled, Mass Consolidated Mining Company - B Shaft"This photogragh is an earlier photogragh to MTU #00637. Compare the poor rock piles of this photogragh to MTU #00637. The piles are much larger in MTU #00637 as well as they are stacked to the right on the hoist line coming from the engine house (smoke).See the comments of MTU #00637, #00617Jay LukkarilaMining EngineerICRUSHROCK@aol.com"
3/9/2007 2:30:44 PM by Anonymous
• This is Adventure Avenue or what is sometimes known as Depot Road looking north from probably the Mineral Range Railroad Depot. This is one of the first wagon roads built within Mass City which was probably constructed around 1889 when the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul built the first railroad and railroad depot in Greenland Township (Mass City was platted within Greenland Township in 1899). The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad as well as its depot would be located in the exact opposite direction of this photograph. Adventure Avenue was built to connect the new depot with Greenland (Behind the bluff in the photograph, established in 1853).The Mineral Range came to Mass City in 1900 and built their track and depot to cross Adventure Avenue between the heart of Mass City and the Milwaukee, Chicago, and St. Paul depot. The Mass City fire house with its bell tower is in the picture on the right. The fire house was later moved to Adventure Avenue which it serves as the Mass City Community Center.The Adventure Mine is located at the end of the bare bluff on the right which is where the Copper Range entered the property and Greenland. Three Railroads serviced Mass City at one time - The Copper Range, The Mineral Range, and Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul.The Mass Consolidated Copper Mine would is located on the left side of the photograph at the end of the bluff" The Mineral Range Railroad's track ran alongside the bottom of the bluff from right to left to get to the Mass Consolidated Mine. This photograph is looking North. To the right (East), the Mineral Range ran its road 34 miles to the Mass Consolidated Mine’s stamp mill at Keweenaw Bay. It also ran its track to the left (west) where it for a time period carried the Michigan's Mine's (Rockland) copper ore to the MCMC stamp mill where it was under contract to stamp their copper ore. The Mineral Range tracks ended in Ontonagon County at the Michigan and Mass Consolidated Mines, but had agreements to run trains along the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul line to get to Ontonagon. Notice the power pole on the right. Originally, The Mass Consolidated Mine supplied Mass City with power. Once the mine was shut down in 1919, so was the electrical power. Jay LukkarilaMining EngineerICRUSHROCK@aol.com"
3/9/2007 3:21:08 PM by Anonymous
• This is a picture taken from the North West side of town looking south east. The Lukkarila's arrived in Mass City in 1905. My father (Walter) grew up in one of the five salt boxes" that are shown in the center of the picture in a row (four are pictured - duplexes built by the Mass Consolidated Mining Company). The white house pictured in the bottom right is the current Lukkarila house (for the last 50 years). The house to the right of that is what we call the Kettunen House as the Kettenun's lived there for over fifty years. Nante Kettunen was killed in the Mass Consolidated Mine in September of 1915 and Mrs Kettunen raised six kids by herself in Mass City. The Kettunen House looks dramatically different today than what is shown in this photogragh - most likely the house pictured was torn down and a house from "New Location" was moved (by logs) in the late 20's/early 30's. New Location was land south of the Mass Consolidate Mine in which houses were sold when the mine closed with the condition that they had to be "moved off the property." The wooded lot (pictured) south of the Lukkarila house is where the Contin House stands today (our museum). The Contin House was most likely another New Location House. Houses sometimes "moved" as many as three times (The old Mass Consolidated Mining Company Hospital).The railroad tracks shown in the lower left of the photo are the Mineral Range. This picture was taken just above rail scale which was located parallel to the rail line (you can see the second set of rails/switch in the photo). I assume all copper ore leaving the Mass Consolidate Mining Company was weighed here as well as the coal coming into the mine. The mine would be literally be behind the photogragher. There was an outhouse behind just about every house in Mass City at this time - indoor plumbing had not made it’s way to this town cut from the wilderness.This picture was taken somewhere between 1900 (Railroad built) and 1915 (new high school not shown) In the distance, are possibly two of the railroad depots - The Mineral Range Depot in the center of the field and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Depot beyond that. The Mineral Range Railroad built their railroad specifically to move copper ore from the Mass Consolidated Mine to the MCMC stampmill thirty-four miles away at Keweenaw Bay.Jay LukkarilaICRUSHROCK@aol.com"
3/9/2007 4:04:46 PM by Anonymous
• This looks like the corner of 19th street and M26 in Hubbell, directly accross M26 from the C&H smelter works.
3/9/2008 11:03:22 AM by Anonymous
• This is the Glaciadome in Mohawk. The little mine rock building next to it was the original Mohawk post office and is now used as a garage. The shafthouse in the background is the Mohawk number four shaft and the current Keweenaw County Road Commission is directly behind the Glaciadome.
3/9/2008 11:11:49 AM by Anonymous
Name:Susan Van Pelt
MTU Class of:
This looks like the view from the current Van Pelt home in Eagle Harbor, on the Coast Guard road... there is a cove in front of their home with these distinctive features, and the Maze" home on the upper right ledge. Hope someone can confirm?"
3/9/2010 11:45:18 PM by Anonymous
• My research from the Calumet News and DMG indicates that the Sons of St. George Duke of Wellington lodge was located in Houghton in 1895 but in Painesdale in 1914 and Trimountain in 1916.
3/9/2011 1:34:58 PM by Anonymous
• Ref my comments of 8/7/2011....I did track on radar PPI scopes (Search & Height finders)UFOs during the early morning hours while on duty as DMCC in Radar Ops. I used grease pencils and timed them....I recorded the info on cryptic notes and later reported the data to NORAD at K.I.Sawyer.
3/9/2012 7:49:58 AM by Anonymous
• This photo was likely taken on April 22, 1927, not 1922. The middle poster seen on the Kerredge Theatre advertises Easy Pickings starring Anna Q. Nilsson. This film was released in February, 1927 (per imdb.com) and was shown at the Kerredge on April 21 and 22 per local newspapers. The poster on the side (far left) of the theatre advertises Casey at the Bat starring Wallace Beery. This film was released in March, 1927 (per imdb.com) and was shown at the Kerredge beginning on April 25 per local newspapers. The poster to the far right likely advertises Zane Grey's The Mysterious Rider starring Jack Holt. This film was released in March, 1927 (per imdb.com) and was shown at the Kerredge on April 23 and 24 per local newspapers.
3/9/2015 11:08:00 AM by John Haeussler
• QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS GOES UP IN HANCOCK FIRE. BLAZE HAD ITS ORIGIN IN SCOTT BLOCK; SPREAD RAPID, FIRE FIGHTERS BUSY.Fire noticed first at 1:30 a.m. which apparently had its inception in the basement of the Scott block on Quincy street, Hancock, had up to an early hour this morning caused approximately $250,000 worth of damage with every possibility of its spreading further.The Scott block, occupied on the ground floor by the City Candy Kitchen and what formerly was Arne's store in which a quantity of goods was stored ready to be shipped by Mr. Arne, who went out of business recently, several suites of the offices on the second floor, one of which was that of Attorney B. H. T. Burritt and the apartments of Mrs. A. J. Scott, owner of the structure, was a total loss. Mrs. Scott was taken from her home in the building safely.The building adjacent on the east occupied by Moss and Levine, men's furnishings, was ablaze and the old Drittler block, occupied by the Woolworth 5 and 10 cent store was doomed, while to the east and west further damage was seemingly inevitable. Three fire departments were fighting the blaze at 3:30 o'clock, the members literally with their backs to the wall. They were much handicapped due to the extent of the fire. The heat from the burning buildings was so intense that it cracked plate glass windows on the opposite side of the street. The Houghton and Ripley departments responded to calls at about 2 o'clock.The bonds for the new Hancock high school building were contained in the vault in the office of Mr. Burritt but it is possible that they may go through the fire unharmed. [Daily Mining Gazette article - February 20, 1923]
4/1/2008 12:40:50 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This Image also appears in The Michigan Tech Centennial on page 88.
4/1/2008 4:14:18 PM by Anonymous
• I was a Michigan Bell Employee (Civilian) and worked in the Telco Building from 1957 to about 1968. Worked with Dick King (deceased), Howard Lahti and Edwin Djerf. I retired from MBT Co. in 1994, married in 1989, and live in Laurium with my wife Virginia. Knew Howard Hosking, Grover Lahti, John Turovaara (deceased). Worked with BUIC II & III, and saw computers go from IBM cards to the digiitizers the size of a small refrigerator. I'm a Ham" radio operator with the call sign of W8FWG, and joined the MARS (radio system) as AA8FWG. E-Mail: w8fwwg@arrl.net for more information. AWAX replaced the systems I was used to and mosst of the USAF around dthe U.S. closed down."
4/1/2012 8:51:15 PM by Anonymous
• This photo also appears in The Michigan Tech Centennial on page 102.
4/10/2008 4:39:19 PM by Anonymous
• Agassiz Park.
4/10/2012 11:52:34 PM by Anonymous
• The house in the trees on the right is still there. Our friends owned the Exley Building at the time it burned.
4/10/2015 1:33:14 PM by Anonymous
• I remember when this happened. It was such a horrible accident.
4/10/2015 1:50:33 PM by Anonymous
• This apartment is on the corner of Quincy and Birch Street. We used to have Coast Guard friends who lived there.
4/10/2015 1:59:12 PM by Anonymous
• This is where my great grandfather and great grandmother are buried. Their names were William Richards and Mary Miller Richards. I cannot find any information on their buriel. Their stones were not part of the removal when the new church was built.
4/10/2015 2:15:31 PM by Anonymous
• Would anyone know if this is the covered stands of the Boston Ballfield? We own it now, and live on it.
4/10/2015 2:19:23 PM by Anonymous
• Shown here frantically searching detailed blueprints of the electrical system for possible clues to the malfunction. Martin McGrath in background finally got it going by using ingenuity and the manual controls. In the meantime experts were called from distant areas to service the system and correct the trouble. Next to McGrath is engineer Wayne Poisson and in foreground engineer Eldred Meher. The maze of controls in this photo gives the reader some idea of what the bridge personnel must contend with in bridge operations. [Daily Mining Gazette article, June 23, 1965]
4/11/2008 8:55:24 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Firemen fighting a vicious blaze yesterday afternoon on the shores of Portage Lake in Ripley found themselves completely surrounded by flames while attempting to control the blaze in one area and preventing it from spreading to another. With gusts of wind upwards of 30-40 miles an hour, the group of firemen shown here in the middle of the picture found their cover gear warped and scorched from the flames. Some coats showed signs of melting. To the left and right of the photo can be seen balls of fire bursting out of oil drums that were stored in the old 100 ft. long warehouse. The small structure in the middle houses many barrels of fuel oil and several hoses were aimed at it to keep the blaze under control and to cool off the drums of oil inside. Disregarding their own safety the firemen of Houghton, Hancock and Ripley surrounded the potentially dangerous area and shot six streams into what could have developed into a holocaust. Other fire departments such as Hurontown, Chassell, Lake Linden, Calumet and C & H, stood by with orders to move at once if the blaze was unable to be contained. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - June 22, 1965]
4/11/2008 9:03:47 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• SUNDAY'S FIRE IS HOLLYWOOD TAVERN'S END - The Hollywood Tavern, once one of the main facets of Hancock's extensive liquor dispensers, ended its days in flames early Sunday morning. The cause, so fire fighters indicated, may have been due to a small heater which furnished warmth to the lower floor of the southern structure of which actually once was a tribuilding affair.Operated by Hancock's John Burgbacher, the building's flames began about 5 a.m. and they were noted by a passerby who informed the city hall authorities as to the site of the flames.The city's fire department responded within 10 to 15 minutes after notification with the result that the fire was contained in the tavern's first floor with the basement also being damaged.At no time, according to the department, was there extensive flames even though the building has an area once occupied by six families. None of these quarters were being used at the time of Sunday's blaze.After reporting back to its headquarters after the fire was thought quenched, the department was called out again about 10:30 when flames were noticed once more. Additional water was put on the fire's location.The building still stands but inasmuch as the Skinner interest that own the structure had planned to remove it from the scene during the upcoming summer it is indicated there will be no attempts to repair or rebuild.Both John Burgbacher and his son, John Jr., reported to the scene shortly after the fire began with the senior member of the unit declaring that he would not go back into business at the site or any other in Hancock.The Burgbacher furniture, fixtures and the building were insured.The building dates back to before the turn of the century. It was constructed of Entry sandstone which was brought to the site by tugs and scows out of the Jacobsville area, it is said.The first owner was Dominic Vignetto, who constructed the building. He in turn, gave way to his son, Angelo, who operated it for many years. Angelo also had interest in the Park Brewery when it was revived after the termination of prohibition in 1933.It was the Quincy Hill's Dante Grassesschi who took over when Vignetto decided to rent the building and it was from Grassesschi that Burgbacher took over about a quarter of a century ago.Burgbacher said Sunday afternoon that he was able to save the till's receipts for Saturday. The proprietor also stated that the formica tables came through without being scathed. The chairs are a loss, however.Most other portions of the structure were damaged by either water or smoke. The fire site is on Ravine and Hancock thoroughfares. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - March 17, 1969]
4/11/2008 9:24:00 AM by Anonymous
• INSTALL GIANT GLOBE - A huge three dimensional globe of the world has been installed in the library of Michigan Technological University.The globe, measuring more than six feet in diameter, is lighted from within, rotates and shows details of the earth's geological and geographical feature. It was donated to Michigan Tech by Dr. Talbert Abrams, chairman of the board of Abrams Aerial Survey Corp. in Lansing.A moving van transported the globe to Houghton from its construction site at Terr-A-Qua Globes and Maps Co., Inc., in Santa Ana Cal. F. William Dohr, president of the company, visited the Michigan Tech campus this week to supervise installation.Abrams, who made the donation through the Michigan Tech Development Fund, has had a colorful career as a leader in aerial surveying and exploration. He mapped Isle Royale in 1929 and large areas for the U. S. government, including Puerto Rico in 1933-37, the Dominican Republic, West Indies, 1940-41 and Cuba, 1933-44. He has been a scientific consultant for Cirtos-Wright Corp., a member of the US Navy-NSF Operation Deep Freeze in 1963-64 and has served in a civilian capacity for the Army, Air Force, Marine and Navy.He was president of Abrams Aerial Survey Corp. for 35 years before becoming chairman of the board in 1968. He also is president of the Talbert and Leota Abrams Foundation. Abrams, who received an honorary doctor of science degree from Michigan Tech in 1952, is responsible for several inventions in the field and is the author of the Essentials of Aerial Surveys and Photo Interpretation. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - March 17, 1969]
4/11/2008 9:42:45 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:Eric Pomber
MTU Class of:2013
This is the No.5 location (Dodgeville). The 1917 Annual Report for the Isle Royale Copper Company mentions building 20 new houses and a twin boarding house" at the No.5. "
4/11/2016 4:58:54 PM by Anonymous
• Where was this mill located on Houghton Canal Rd. This is the first that I have heard of this one. Was it served by the CR?
4/12/2009 5:14:35 PM by Baldwinmw
• All interesting...I did not know of a Calumet AFS...I enlisted Dec 56 and after tech school, I went to TUSLOG Det 1, then 3 at APO 324...Turkish town nearest was Karamursel...I went to Istanbul by ferry as often as I could...I saw Sputnik 3 going overhead...after Turkey, I did a year at Sembach Germany and discharged Aug 60...
4/12/2013 9:28:43 PM by Anonymous
• The Steeple in the center left is from the St Paul's Lutheran Church which was on Scott street at that time. The congregation was later forced to relocate to Tamarack street in Laurium as C&H had planned to use the site. But after the church was gone C & H never used the spot. The long roof line near the bottom of the photo is probably St Patrick's Catholic church which was on the site where St Anne's was later built (corner of 5th and Scott).
4/12/2015 3:50:40 PM by Anonymous
• I WAS STATIONED THERE IN JUNE 1973 TO NOVEMBER OF 1973 TRANSPORTATION AND SNOW REMOVEL.I RAN THE SNOW TRAC VECHICLE UP AND DOWN THE MOUNTAIN TO LAKE GRATCIT FOR OUR FRESH WATER SUPPLY TO CHECK PUMP HOUSINGS 3 OF THOSE.HEPED WITH BOY SCOUT TROUP FOR THE BASE BRATS AND HAD A BALL. WE EVEN DID A WINTER CAMP OUT. DID THE FIRE TRAILS AND SAW HEARDS OF DEER. THE ICE FISHERMAN WOULD WAVE AND SHOW WHAT THEY CAUGHT. ATE A FEW LAKE TROUT.HIKED ALL OVER INCOUNTERED A MAMA BEAR AND TWO CUBS, SCARRY BUT I'M STILL ALIVE.BEEN THERE A FEW TIMES AFTER AND HAD A FRIEND WHO PLAYED AND SANG AT THE BAR FORE MENTIONED.PEGGY RAN THE BASE EXCHANGE AND WE DATED.WISH I COULD FIND HER,SHE WAS SO COOL. FLYINGISME2@HOTMAIL.COM
4/13/2013 5:12:31 PM by Anonymous
• This photo was taken on Oak Street along side what is now St. Paul the Apostle Church - known until 1966 as St. Joseph's Slovenian Catholic Church. This photo must have been taken sometime between 1904 or 1905 when the exterior of the church building was completed, and 1908 when the new Mineral Range Depot was built. (the roof of the depot behind the church is definitely that of the old gable-roofed wood frame depot, not that of the new hipped-roof brick depot) - Jeremiah Mason
4/14/2007 12:27:50 AM by Anonymous
• Pine St looking up 5th street
4/14/2010 10:10:35 PM by Anonymous
• Margaret Mabelle Kariean, 70 summers old and blueberry picker extraordinary. She carries a large pan of blueberries to the table outside her tent. The filtered cigarette that droops from a corner of her pursed lips is a mute reminder that this is all very much here and now. Mrs. Kariean has spent the past 49 summers living in a tent on the shores of Rice Lake. During the winter she lives in Laurium. She is, as she puts it, in the blueberry racket."According to what her mother told her, Margaret Mabelle was born in 1895 on a boat in Copper Harbor. She was unable to elaborate on this. Ever since her marriage in 1916, Mrs. Kariean has been spending her summers at the lake. Her husband passed away in 1950. A son, who works during the day, usually spends the nights with her at the camp. They have no car. A bicycle is the son's method of travel. When an occasional trip to town is necessary, Mrs. Kariean said there are friends with cars who oblige.The berry picker came from a family of 11 children and has had 10 children herself. Now, at the camp in addition to her son, she keeps a dog and a cat. The dog's name is Roscoe and the cat answers to Mike.A small oil stove is used for cooking. On cold nights it furnishes the necessary warmth for the tent. Kerosene laterns supply the only light. [Daily Mining Gazette Article, August 7, 1965] "
4/15/2008 9:17:48 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• I have a good quality copy of this scene, before the water staining. It is on heavy weight card stock and may have been part of a portfolio of similar pictures. As part of this sheet and printed in block type it says, LEAF COPPER ON WILLARD AND MERCER DOCK - 1864. On the back is a hand written notation saying, "Leaf Copper-Eagle River, Michigan 1864500 ton mass of Leaf Copper-found at Cliff Mine-Clifton, Mich."
4/15/2009 5:59:49 PM by Anonymous
• I was at Calumet from nov. 1970 to nov. 1972. I was a cook with John Carbonaro and Art Sharp. Sargent Jakes was Mess sargent at the time.Great duty and a lot of fun times. Going back this July 29, 30, and 31st 2011 to get together with Paul Taylor, John Lane and anybody else who wants to come up. My name is Rick (call me Wally) Waligora.
4/15/2011 7:12:40 PM by Anonymous
• That yesterday's little seasonal industries still function to a small degree in the Copper Country can be seen by a visit to the lake front near the Foley Copper Products Wire mill. There, Arthur Larch, the well known Portage Lake natural refrigeration man, is cutting his 1954 ice harvest, a task he has been performing annually for the past 30 years.There is still a big demand for natural ice. It is used in the preservation of fish, in the packing of fish for shipment and in a generalized group of purposes that count up to almost two score.The product this year is about 16 inches in thickness and contains but a small layer of slush ice. The usual thickness in normal winters is approximately from 22 to 24 inches.Mr. Larch expects to cut about 1400 tons of cake ice. Each block will range in weight from 300 to 400 pounds. In cakes the number harvested will be approximately 10,000.The Dollar Bay man will not only cut for his own year's distribution route, but he will also harvest for concerns like the Chassell Fisheries, William Wood Fisheries at Copper Harbor, the Northern Co-Operative and the Giacoletto Tavern at Toivola.Mr. Larch has been preparing for his March ice harvest since the ice was five inches thick Jan. 10 I had to baby it this year," he said yesterday, "because we had a mild winter."During alternate periods he has been scraping the snow off the surface so that the section in which he expected to do his harvesting would not be insulated against freezing. That is the reason the ice on his plot is so much thicker than further out in the channel where currents and snow have narrowed the thickness down to as low as eight to 10 inches.Harvester Larch has been living in Dollar Bay for the past 51 years. He was born in Hancock. The family lived there at the time the father was employed at the old Detroit and Lake Superior Smelting Co. at its site east of the bridge. After the Quincy smelter began operating in 1898 and the Tamarack and Osceola and Calumet and Hecla smelters began stepping up production following the turn of the century, the elder Larch could easily see that it wouldn't be long before the old furnaces of the Lake Superior would be inadequate for further smelting processes. So he changed his employment from Ripley to Dollar Bay.After a short time at the smelter in the latter town he went into the fuel business. As a side line he carried on the harvesting and sale of ice. At that time electric refrigeration, as it is known today, was unknown. that being the case, the harvesting of ice was a big business.Son Arthur Larch started as a youngster in the ice business. He followed his father along on his routes and did practically every task requested in the harvesting side of the work.Of course, he does not do the cutting and loading, as it was done in the yesteryears. Then it was entirely a horse power job. Now it's horsepower but in a different manner. He cuts the ice to a certain depth with a circular saw powered by a gasoline engine. After it is well marked a man with a crosscut type saw appears on the job and proceeds along the cut lines easing it out into the water by means of the complete cut from surface to water.One time when he did all his cutting by horse and man power, he had a team slip through the ice and into the water. He and his men were able to get one horse out, but the other one sank to the bottom. He relates quite a number of experiences in the early days but averages them all up by saying, "Oh, there's not much money in cutting ice, but I make a living from it and that's that." He charges a quarter for a 300 - 400 pound cake provided the customer comes to where the ice is being harvested and takes it away with his truck. "And if anybody can harvest ice under that price he is welcome to try it," he adds.All Larch ice will be harvested within a 10 day period, that is provided nothing unusual turns up. When the cutting and loading is at peak proportio"
4/16/2009 10:59:33 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This would have been the original Centennial Shaft way back when, not the one currently there. The one there now is much smaller and I remember reading somewhere that it was moved there when C&H reopened the shaft.
4/17/2008 7:30:26 PM by Anonymous
• This is Baltic #3. It's the only shaft house that had the angled steel braces under the rock house.
4/18/2010 4:17:26 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Baltic, shafts 2,3,4 and 5 in a row looking from south west to north east. Shaft #1 which was actually between 2 and 3 was crooked and never developed.
4/18/2010 4:21:43 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Boiler House for #3 and #4. The #4 shaft house can be seen in the back ground.
4/18/2010 4:25:31 PM by Anonymous
• Baltic #3, 4 and 5 shaft houses looking from southwest to northeast.
4/18/2010 4:30:29 PM by Anonymous
• The houses in the back ground are what was known as Brooklyn Location". My Grandfather worked the Baltic and my Mother was born in one of those houses."
4/18/2010 4:35:04 PM by Anonymous
• The closest building is actually the #2 Hoist House. The photo must have been taken after they shut down #2. The building behind with the stack is #2 Boiler house with the coal trestle to the right.
4/19/2010 4:52:16 PM by Anonymous
• In a township like Franklin or Quincy, most of the mining land is either owned by the Quincy Co., Calumet and Hecla or the successors to any of the onetime Arcadian owned sections.But Joe's plot, located not far from the Franklin School, belongs to the Copper Range Co. Although there are only three 40's, the parcels came to Copper Range in a perfectly plausible manner.At one time the St. Mary's Mineral Land Co. held extensive land holdings. Incorporated originally as the St. Mary's Canal Mineral Land Co. in 1863, this firm went into business in New York to acquire 180,000 acres of land given by the state of Michigan for the construction of the first ship canal at the Soo. The lands, which were located in Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties, formerly included tracts once operated by the Calumet and Hecla, Baltic, Trimountain, Champion, Ojibway mines. Other lands of the company were outside the Copper Country.Large stock holdings were controlled by St. Mary's since the policy of the company was not to engage in mining but to remain a land and security holding firm. At one time it held stock in such mines as Houghton, Pacific, LaSalle, Hancock, Naumkeg and Douglass to name only a number of the smaller copper ventures in the Copper Country. It also held shares of the old Apmhidrome Co.Copper Range received the land, virtually surrounded by Quincy property, when it acquired St. Mary's in 1931. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - September 20, 1957 Edition]
4/2/2009 10:10:40 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Surprising indeed are the number of motels, stores, soft drink stands, etc., which have sprung up in the last two years. And further building is still proceeding. The Kauppi motel is rapidly sizing up as one of the largest in the Keweenaw Country. The former Miss Violet Johnson, daughter of the late Holger Johnson who for a long period of time resided on Isle Royale, has a thoroughly modern agate shop. As Mrs. Eino Miller, she is operating the Keweenaw shop at the Harbor. During the regular season, it functions in Ahmeek. The Pontiac Hotel is making improvements and the Fort Wilkins State Park has added more acreage in the vicinity of Breezy Point. Eagle River has a small unit motel being readied for business by James Swank. He already posseses a dainty coffee shop on the beach. Fred Niemi of Laurium is in the cabin business at the River and John Bausano has an attractive motel arrangement at Jacob Creek and Falls. Commercially, Copper Harbor appears the largest and most lively of the three Keweenaw resort towns. Eagle Harbor is a place where one may relax and rest. Eagle River retains its identity through its bible camp, along Lake Superior beach and county seat. Sand Bay, between Eagle River and Eagle Harbor, is one of the county's famed picnic and bathing areas. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - June 14, 1957 Edition]
4/2/2009 9:59:30 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The school was erected in 1908. It replaced a much smaller and far less adequate building which stood on the plot immediately north of the present structure. F. X. Clifford, superintendent of the school from the time of its dedication in 1908 until its virtual closing was an instructor in the old building. He began his career in it in 1905, the year the Houghton county drawbridge toppled over. Mr. Clifford remembers that when it was decided to construct a new building the first thought was that it should be built of mine rock. This suggestion was laid aside, however, and the admirable brick substituted.The Franklin school was widley known for its spelling bees. Its staffs doted on the 3 R's and placed much emphasis on spelling. Mr. Clifford's Washington and Lincoln day addresses were widely heralded and he placed much stress on the devotion which should accrue to these two great Americans.The Franklin school was actually an outgrowth of sentiment from officials of the mine of the same name. The latter was organized in 1857. The shafts immediately adjacent ot the Quincy company was sold to Quincy in July, 1908 the same year the school was dedicated. Franklin didn't go out of the mining business at that time however, for it merely transferred the site of its activities to the Franklin Junior property at Boston. - [Daily Mining Gazette Article - December 19, 1953 Edition.]
4/20/2009 10:02:25 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The mine was located four miles west of Rockland. It was discovered in old Inidan pits and when first worked in 1849, was known as the Cushing. The mine was organized one year later and saw a part of it being set off to make what was known as the Glen mine, it too, having been discovered through ancient Indian workings. For a long period of time it was known as the Forest mine. Nearby was the Shirley Mining Company and farther west was the Tremont and Devon.The company didn't get its Victoria name until 1858. Water power was talked of in the early days, but it remained for Captain Thomas Hooper to accomplish that when he opened the Victoria again in 1898.The Victoria was operated up to 1921 by Captain Hooper's son, George. According to word that got around, the mine was making considerable copper, but ther was too much development work going on right along in the underground working, the expense of which took all the cash that was made from the sale of copper.Then as some of the elderly Rockland residents have stated, As no dividends were coming in, the company decided to close down and in 1921 that is just what was done. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - October 9, 1953 Edition.]"
4/20/2009 10:11:47 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This picture was posted in the April 6, 2009 (Vol. 15, No. 16) issue of the electronic newsletter Tech Alum" at: http://www.admin.mtu.edu/alumni/techalum/Many readers posted comments to that site and some have been included here. - Erik Nordberg, MTU Archives Staff"
4/20/2009 11:35:46 AM by Anonymous
Name:Frank Shoffner
MTU Class of:1962
The pic maybe was taken from the tower of Sperr Hall (Mining Building).
4/20/2009 11:37:15 AM by Anonymous
Name:Ken Kok
MTU Class of:1964
That is the campus when I was at Tech beginning in 1959. The building in back is Hubbell Hall where I sat through math and physics classes. In the center is Koenig Hall which was the home of the chemistry, chemical engineering and nuclear engineering. The build in from I believe was Kerr Hall where shop classes and engineering drawing classes were held. I spent many hours in all of them. Out in front was the best spot to hitch a ride into town and a corner of the Union Building shows across College Ave.
4/20/2009 11:38:11 AM by Anonymous
Name:Bruce L. Gall
MTU Class of:B.S. Civil Engineering-1963 and B.S. Engineering Administration-1968
I remember the campus just like this. In about 1962, several of the radius" walkways were surfaced with wood chips in front of Hubbell Hall, the Chem Bldg. and easterly to the old EE and Mining Bldgs. and out to the concrete walk along College Avenue. Thanks for the nostalgic photo! "
4/20/2009 11:39:22 AM by Anonymous
Name:Andy Robinson
MTU Class of:1961
This was when you still had to take your life in your hands to get from one side of US 41 to the other when getting from the Dorm to the class buildings. I lived in Wadsworth for one year, then got married the second year I was up there, and brought my bride up to keep me warm. She is still doing it too, almost 50 years later. We lived in an apartment in Houghton the first year, straight up the hill from the Sheriffs Dept. My Senior year, we were among the first occupants of the new married student housing up behind Wadsworth. Lots of friends and good times up there.
4/20/2009 11:40:34 AM by Anonymous
Name:Jim Roley
MTU Class of:1962
lf I remember right that is Hubbell Hall (referred to as the math building) on the right with the Admin Building hidden from view in the middle and then I'm pretty sure the EE Building in the foreground. The north corner of the Memorial Union can be seen on the left. Further up on the left hidden by the trees would be the Forestry Building. College Ave was a two lane street going right through the middle on the Campus towards Downtown Houghton at that time.Looks like the picture could have been taken from the roof of the then new Civil Geological Building.
4/20/2009 11:41:36 AM by Anonymous
Name:Daniel J. Filipski
MTU Class of:1961
You know you are getting old when identifying photos from the archives.I believe the building with the white roofs is Hubbell Hall and the building in front is the old Shops Bldg. that housed mechanical engineering. U.S. 41 is the road to the left of the buildings and heading towards Hancock at the top of the photo.Attending Tech back then and graduating, was one of my most treasured accomplishments.
4/20/2009 11:42:32 AM by Anonymous
• This picture was posted in the April 6, 2009 (Vol. 15, No. 16) issue of the electronic newsletter Tech Alum" at: http://www.admin.mtu.edu/alumni/techalum/ Many readers posted comments to that site and some have been included here. - Erik Nordberg, MTU Archives Staff "
4/20/2009 11:44:57 AM by Anonymous
Name:Al Robertson
MTU Class of:1954
The dose of personal nostalgia that your newsletters usually bring for me is the photo this month of Tech's early analog computer. It is a model EC-1 Heathkit educational computer, one of, if not the first, in a product line that is one of only two vestiges that remain of the well-known Heathkit do-it-yourself line of consumer electronic kits popular in the '50s through the '70s. The VTVM to the right of the EC-1 is also a Heathkit but not the oscilloscope. When I went to work for Heath as a design engineer in 1957, I was the second degreed engineering employee, the first being Carl Heald, BSEE '55, who was involved in the design of the EC-1. Not many EC-1's were sold so if it is gathering dust somewhere on campus, with the MTU connection, it does have some historical value. Heath Company is still located here in St. Joseph producing self-study and vocational school products in the electronics field.The other vestige referred to earlier is the Heath/Zenith line of home automation/security products sold at big box DIY and chain hardware retailers. Heath was a fun place to work as a single design engineer was entirely responsible for a new product development, even, early on, to writing the assembly manual. Lots of personal pride if the product sold well. But the electronic kit business declined in the late '70s and early '80s due to better and lower cost assembled product imports. I took advantage of another employment opportunity in 1979 but still enjoy the nostalgia seeing Heathkits pictured or mentioned in today's media. -Al Robertson, BSEE '54
4/20/2009 11:47:31 AM by Anonymous
Name:John R. Baker
MTU Class of:1971
If you go up to the 5th or 6th floor (not sure which) of the ME-EM building you’ll probably find some of this stuff in one of the display cases they have along the walls. I know I found the WANG Calculator that we used to use back then for simple math problems, along with a bunch of other test instruments and stuff that I know came out of some of the labs I worked in back when I was a student.I still have and use to this day a Heathkit VTVM (Vacuum Tube Volt-Ohm Meter)…http://www.heathkit-museum.com/test/hvmim-11.shtml…which I built while still in high school. As I said before, I started out at Da Tech as a Double-E but then discovered that ‘Electronics’ hadn’t quite caught-up with the curriculum and besides, I spent the summer between my freshman and sophomore year working as a draftsmen at a company in Saginaw and got a chance to see what both Electrical and Mechanical Engineers did in the real world and immediately switched to ME once I got back to school in the fall of 1966. I still play with old electronic gear as a bit of a hobby and have a couple of radios which ‘glow in the dark’ (meaning that they have ‘tubes’).BTW, I attended the Alumni get-together in SoCal last week and got a chance to meet President Mroz and hear the really interesting presentation by the Friedrich’s.As for the analog computer in Fisher Hall, the really weird one was the Analog/Digital hybrid that ‘Black Jack’ McMillin was working on when I was a student there in the mid- to late-60’s. He was convinced that pure digital computers would never be able to be fully integrated into our ‘Analog’ world and he was looking for that ideal mix, however by the time the 70’s got rolling the Digital era was gaining speed, literally. But that did not mean that Analogs were dead as far as the classrooms were concerned since they still allowed you to solve many mechanical problems in ‘real-time’. In the fall of 1970 we were still using Analog computers in such ME-EM classes as Vibrations, not ones with the big slanted chassis as shown in the photo, but slightly smaller Heathkits which were about the size and shape of a large microwave oven. And as far as the ME-EM department was concerned, they thought Analogs were going to be around for some time as I helped design and layout a new Analog lab, complete with new systems that could be linked to a master console where the instructor could set-up a problem which the entire class could access. This new dedicated Analog lab was planned for the new ME-EM building, then under construction (1970-71), but which I understand was used only a couple of years before being scraped as the Digital era fully took hold. BTW, I started out at MTU as an Electrical major but switched to ME after my first year, but when we started to use those Analog computers suddenly my old EE ‘skills’ were in demand since you had to set-up L-C (Inductor-Capacitor) circuits to simulate the time-dependent behavior of decaying systems like mechanical vibrations and harmonic resonance conditions. Ah, the good’ol days. -- John R. Baker,Class of 1971
4/20/2009 11:49:01 AM by Anonymous
Name:Jodi Behm Bondy
MTU Class of:1982
The photo you have listed as Spanky’s in the 60’s, I believe that one was where Diamond Mike’s was housed during my stint at Tech -1978-82. I think it closed before I graduated in 82 but I do remember going in there a couple of times. Our best Friday night hangout was the bar at the west end of town, before the lift bridge; that had Double Bubble where beers were 2 for 1. And then after a few hours there, we would go to the Ambassador and get dinner and a Zombie. Oh the good ole days.
4/20/2009 11:50:30 AM by Anonymous
• This picture was posted in the April 6, 2009 (Vol. 15, No. 16) issue of the electronic newsletter Tech Alum" at: http://www.admin.mtu.edu/alumni/techalum/ Many readers posted comments to that site and some have been included here. - Erik Nordberg, MTU Archives Staff "
4/20/2009 11:59:31 AM by Anonymous
• The guy in the center with the check pants is Bill Binder. He was a student director of the Pep Band. He's also the only guy I know whose driver's license picture contains a pirate hat.
4/20/2009 11:59:59 AM by Anonymous
Name:Jon Shewe
MTU Class of:
The sax up front is Bill ?? (student director, lived in DHH, CS). Behind him looks like me (Jon Schewe). The French Horn in front of Bill in the green would be Karen Rebek.
4/20/2009 12:00:33 PM by Anonymous
Name:Janna Roome
MTU Class of:1999
I can name three people in this photo. On snare is Kris Gordon, playing the f'n horn is Karen Rebek (sp?), and on sax is Bill Binder. The BA!s were probably getting ready to run through BK before we finished heading down Collage Ave and then up to the SDC. It never failed, one of the junk cars would break down right in front of us on the way up the hill. We would have to inhale all the exhaust, or whatever smell it made, as the occupants either pushed it up the hill or abandoned it on the side of the road. Ah, those were the good days. At least it looks like it was some what warm for homecoming. Thanks for the memories! -- Janna Roome (Pugh) '99 Flax/piccolo
4/20/2009 12:01:21 PM by Anonymous
• The Gitzen-Loutit Award is a hockey award for outstanding defenseman and is still given out each year. The award is named in honor of two students killed in a bus accident on Saturday, Jan. 14, 1950. The hockey team was on a chartered Copper Range bus heading north on US27 north of Gaylord when the sideswiped a Greyhound bus heading which was heading south. Both buses had bad damage, with the sides of each ripped open and some passengers thrown.Robert J. Gitzen was a sophomore mechanical engineering student from Houghton and player on the team, while Richard D. Loutit was a third year civil engineering student from Battle Creek and student manager of the team. Both were killed instantly.Three passengers from the Greyhound bus were also killed, including a 2-year-old girl. Oddly enough one of the other deceased on the Greyhound was traveling from Mohawk.Many other passengers on both buses were seriously injured. The list of injured from the Copper Range bus is a veritable who's who of Tech from that time: Bill Frantti, Bert, Pete and Jocko Noblet, Jimmy Ruhl, coach Amo Bessone and AD Alan Bovard.Some of the injured stayed in hospital in Gaylord over the succeeding weeks. After the accident, those who could travel headed north by train to the straits. Richard Nebel, a judge from Munising, sent cars to St. Ignace and drove the guys back to Munising where they stayed overnight until cars sent from Houghton could pick them up.[Details summarized by Erik Nordberg (MTU Archives Staff) from Daily Mining Gazette, Monday Jan 16, 1950 and Michigan Tech Lode, Jan 19, 1950.]
4/20/2009 12:04:03 PM by Anonymous
• The Rev. Fr. Eduard P. Bordas, a native of France, was pastor of St. Joseph's church in Lake Linden from about 1896 until 1905. From childhood, he had known about a tonic made from a French herb that was beneficial to sufferers from many kinds of diseases, and his secret ambition was to put this medicine on the market. Cor-ago (The Greek word, translated, means literally, It Makes the Heart Go") was finding it way most encouragingly around the country. Dozens of orders and testimonials, found during a recent examination of the building, seem to indicate it was helping many people.It was a sticky brown liquid cooked in a great hooded cauldron and bottled at the plant. The kettle remains in the building, as well as other equipment, and there are heaps of the dried Cor-ago herb on the floor of the second and third stories. The basement is piled with cartons of bottles never used. Also manufactured at the plant was a laxative pill with a thick borwn center and pink coating.Orders came from states including New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Kansas and Illinois. Records show that many Copper Countrybusiness concerns were handling Cor-ago. Listed were Nichols Drug Store, Hennes & Co., Vertin Bros., Petermann's store, Sodergren & Sodergren, the Eagle Drug Store and others. The company went out of business after a batch was spoiled in preparation and bottled and distributed in Fr. Bordas absence. The batch was recalled by the company and health department, but the reputation of the company was damaged and did not recover.The Cor-ago building stands in an area of spreading fields at the entrance to the fertile Trap Rock Valley region. [Daily Mining Gazette Article -December 20, 1953]"
4/20/2009 1:02:06 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This was the business owned by my parents, Eino and Violet Miller. In 1957 I was five years old and lived in the back and upstairs of the agate shop.
4/20/2012 2:39:38 PM by grannysage
Name:Steve Walton
MTU faculty
Uniforms and cars point to a WWI date. The two cars behind are very much c1917 vintage. Perhaps boys off to war from the area?
4/21/2014 10:29:37 AM by Anonymous
• This photograph also appears in The Michigan Tech Centennial on page 110.
4/22/2008 4:29:55 PM by Anonymous
• This photograph also appears in The Michigan Tech Centennial on page 111.
4/22/2008 4:45:51 PM by Anonymous
• The days of McGinty/McMahon family spent at the Twin City Style Shop were wonderful. Full of good friends and wonderful memories. Everything an infant, girl or woman could want - except a butler!
4/22/2009 12:58:01 PM by Anonymous
• For many years, the Pontiac Resort was also the US Post Office for Copper Harbor. Mrs. Westcoat was the post mistress in the 1950's.
4/22/2009 1:05:40 PM by annweilermcmahon
• I believe this was taken at Fort Wilkins State Park.
4/22/2009 1:07:17 PM by annweilermcmahon
• This may be a boat called the Shirley K" owned and operated by Sully Kauppi. Mrs. Munger rang the restaurant "FOOD" sign above. The Pilot House in the background was at one time a gift shop. I am not sure but it may have been from the SS Altadoc. Jamsens fish house is also in the same area."
4/22/2009 1:13:04 PM by annweilermcmahon
• Located in what was once the center of the copper mining activities in the Keweenaw peninsula, the firm has seen four generations of owners. The latter trio trace their lineage back to the founder of the plant, Joseph Blight Sr., who landed at Copper Harbor in 1852 to begin a career of mining, building and fuse making.The amazing part of the story is the fact that throughout all the years, which add up almost to a century, the plant has never ceased to continue operations and under the same family name.Although Lake Superior Fuse is one of the smallest plants of its kind in the nation it is also one of a very few within the confines of the 48 states. As far as is known there is only one other plant, that of the Ensign Bickford Co. of Finsbury, Conn.It was due to the enterprise and versatility of a woman who gave the concern its humble beginning. A mite of a girl, Mary Ann Terrill of Illogan, Cornwall, England, worked in the Bickford-Smith Safety Fuse factory in Camborne, England early in the 19th century. The product of the English concern in its early stages just a crude process in which the pith of a species of bullrush was used as one of the ingredients, found its way to mining camps all over the world and today the Bickford-Smith Co. is still a going concern.Mary Terrill became adept as an employee of the Smith factory and after she married Joseph Blight and came to the Lake Superior mining district about a century ago, she readily adapted the process to fuse making in a plant established by her husband. He was a carpenter first employed at the Keweenaw mine, which later was called the Meteor and then the Lac La Belle, after which a portion was attached to the Northwest-Delaware Conglomerate property. Another portion became known as the Mendota workings. Mining was begun in 1855 in an intermittent fashion. The practice was to work a season or two and then let the property idle for a similar number of years.With the assistance of a fellow worker named Thomas Dunstone and another man, Richard Uren, a company was formed. They supplied the financial backing while Blight and his wife provided the know-how. Mrs. Blight was the actual fuse maker for she had a thorough knowledge of how the product was manufactured. It was she who advised on how the manufacturing equipment should be installed. From this humble beginning stemmed the now famous Eagle River fuse industry. Among the early mines for which the small industry provided fuse was the Pittsburg and Lake Superior, which ultimately became the famed Cliff property. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - March 14, 1953 Edition]
4/22/2009 9:11:32 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
The interesting thing about this picture, it is a bird's eye view". From the height and the angle, the photographer most likely had scaled the old flagpole in order to take it. "
4/22/2010 9:09:22 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
Actually, if the scuttlebutt is to be believed, both could be correct. One version has that the flagpole was the mast from the Brigantine John Jacob Astor" that went onto the rocks in the harbor just north of the fort. There is an 8'3" section of the flagpole/mast still at the fort."
4/22/2010 9:20:35 PM by Anonymous
• The Arctic Coal Company began Mine 2, on Tract 1, in 1912. The mine was prepared for but not engaged in full-scale operation by the company. It developed the mine to protect its land claim to this area and to amplify the percieved value of the company's operation by potential buyers. Store Norske Kulkompagni, which purchased the operations in 1916, extensively exploited this mine, which it called Mine 2(a).
4/23/2008 2:23:22 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet, as seen in this photograph.
4/23/2008 3:15:37 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. This photograph was taken as part of that survey.
4/23/2008 3:16:16 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company began Mine 2, on Tract 1, in 1912. The mine was prepared for but not engaged in full-scale operation by the company. It developed the mine to protect its land claim to this area and to amplify the percieved value of the company's operation by potential buyers. Store Norske Kulkompagni, which purchased the operations in 1916, extensively exploited this mine, which it called Mine 2(a).
4/23/2008 3:18:38 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company began Mine 2, on Tract 1, in 1912. The mine was prepared for but not engaged in full-scale operation by the company. It developed the mine to protect its land claim to this area and to amplify the percieved value of the company's operation by potential buyers. Store Norske Kulkompagni, which purchased the operations in 1916, extensively exploited this mine, which it called Mine 2(a).
4/23/2008 3:18:52 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position d", on the east side of Longyear Valley. "
4/23/2008 3:21:18 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position f", on the east side of Longyear Valley, close to the entrance of mine 2b. "
4/23/2008 3:24:15 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position i", on the east side of Longyear Valley. "
4/23/2008 3:24:53 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position l", on the west side of Longyear Valley. "
4/23/2008 3:30:20 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position l", on the west side of Longyear Valley. "
4/23/2008 3:30:41 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position o", on the west side of Longyear Valley. "
4/23/2008 3:35:15 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position IV". "
4/23/2008 3:38:27 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position s", on the west side of Longyear Valley. "
4/23/2008 3:39:13 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position s", on the west side of Longyear Valley. "
4/23/2008 3:39:27 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position ab", on the west side of Longyear Valley. "
4/23/2008 3:40:17 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position ao", on the south-west end of Advent Bay. "
4/23/2008 3:41:36 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position ap", at the south-west end of Advent Bay. "
4/23/2008 3:42:21 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1912 and 1913, the Arctic Coal Company made a geological survey of part of its coal lands, principally the area around Longyear City. The company aimed to develop a sophistocated understanding of the amount of coal available, the quality of the coal and nature of the coal seams. The survey labelled the coal testing points with letters of the alphabet. This photograph shows the test pit at position ap", at the south-west point of Advent Bay."
4/23/2008 3:43:03 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• From 1905, the Arctic Coal Company erected claim signs at strategic points around its land claims. This activity was important in establishing a legal ownership of the land. The lands of Spitsbergen were highly contested in the early twentieth century and many claims overlapped.
4/23/2008 3:50:47 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Lake Superior fisheries was organized as a Co-operative by the Finnish immigrant fishermen from Portage Entry, Big and Little Traverse and Gay.In 1943 Charles V. Nurmi, became the General Manager. Shortly thereafter, they took over the gas and oil department of the Houghton, Ontonagon and Baraga County Oil Association, known as HOB Co-op Oil Association. They added a locker plant, meat processing department and a farm machinery department.The Co-operative newspapers: The Co-operative Builder and the Finnish paper, The Osuustoimintalehti, wanted to do an article about the Co-operative fishing industry and sent a reporter and photographer to Hancock. Mr. Nurmi at the time was also the president of the Tri-state (Mich., Wisc. and Minn.) Co-op Managers Association and a member of the Central Co-operative Wholesale Board of Directors in Supperior, Wisc. Mrs. Nurmi was a contributor to the newspapers.Ten to twelve thousand pounds of fish were filleted daily. Men and women made from $5.00 to $12.00 per day filleting. Most of the women wore a glove on the right hand to keep hand from freezing. Room temperature was about 60 degrees. The company provided a coffee and donut break each morning. [Information supplied by Beatrice N. Meyers.]
4/23/2009 11:04:55 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The large building with the pointed tower and flag pole was Trimountain's public school.
4/23/2015 1:15:40 PM by sawyernewman2
• What part of Trimountain was this taken at?
4/23/2015 9:01:07 AM by Anonymous
• The timber dock of the Kings Bay AS on Kingsforden on North-west Svalbard.
4/24/2008 10:27:16 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Coal Mining operations of the Kings Bay AS on Kings Bay, or Kongsfjorden. Started in 1916, the settlement is known as New Aalesund or Ny Ålesund.
4/24/2008 10:28:09 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The dock of the Kings Bay AS, on Kings Bay, or Kongsfjorden, in North-West Spitsbergen.
4/24/2008 10:28:47 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Coal Mining operations of the Kings Bay AS on Kings Bay, or Kongsfjorden. Started in 1916, the settlement is known as New Aalesund or Ny Ålesund.
4/24/2008 10:28:58 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Coal Mining operations of the Kings Bay AS on Kings Bay, or Kongsfjorden. Started in 1916, the settlement is known as New Aalesund or Ny Ålesund.
4/24/2008 10:29:12 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Coal Mining operations of the Kings Bay AS on Kings Bay, or Kongsfjorden. Started in 1916, the settlement is known as New Aalesund or Ny Ålesund.
4/24/2008 10:29:24 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The timber dock of the Kings Bay AS, with rail line and coal chutes, on Kings Bay or Kongsfjorden in north-western Svalbard.
4/24/2008 10:30:23 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The coal mining operations of the Kings Bay AS, on Kings Bay or Kongsfjorden.
4/24/2008 10:31:10 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Coal Mining operations of the Kings Bay AS on Kings Bay, or Kongsfjorden. Started in 1916, the settlement is known as New Aalesund or Ny Ålesund.
4/24/2008 10:31:20 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Workers from the Kings Bay AS standing on the company dock on Kings Bay, of Kongsfjorden. The timber frames behind them are supports for either coal chutes or winching gear for transferring goods and equipment between ship and shore.
4/24/2008 10:33:32 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The timber dock of the Kings Bay AS, on Kings Bay or Kongsfjorden. The dock is associated with the coal mines of Ny Ålesund, opr New Alesund.
4/24/2008 10:34:37 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• From 1905, the Arctic Coal Company erected claim signs at strategic points around its land claims. This activity was important in establishing a legal ownership of the land. The lands of Spitsbergen were highly contested in the early twentieth century and many claims overlapped.
4/24/2008 9:26:34 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company began Mine 2, on Tract 1, in 1912. The mine was prepared for but not engaged in full-scale operation by the company. It developed the mine to protect its land claim to this area and to amplify the percieved value of the company's operation by potential buyers. Store Norske Kulkompagni, which purchased the operations in 1916, extensively exploited this mine, which it called Mine 2(a).
4/24/2008 9:28:34 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1913, the Arctic Coal Company prepared a plan of its operations on Green Harbor with the layout of a possible surface railway from its No.1 mine (Tract 2) to the shoreline. This line was never constructed. Instead, coal was transported by a horse drawn sled, a slow and difficult process.
4/24/2008 9:35:02 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Coal Mining operations of the Kings Bay AS on Kings Bay, or Kongsfjorden. Started in 1916, the settlement is known as New Aalesund or Ny Ålesund. The photo caption has mis-identified a coal storage pile as a slag heap.
4/24/2008 9:57:55 AM by Anonymous
• My Great- Grandfather was a member of the Sons Of St. George. He was born in England, came to the United States in the 1880's. The Society buried my Grandfather in Iron River, he lived in Ishpeming and then in Beechwood, Michigan. There are a few other men secretly buried along with him, they are all buried under the Sons of St, George in Iron River. So if you are missing a family memeber , they maybe buried there.
4/24/2009 6:10:43 PM by Anonymous
• Was stationed at Calumet AFS from 4/73 - 12/74. Worked in the search radar tower. Would love to relive some of those days, especially getting in a few games of ping-pong.
4/25/2009 5:05:31 PM by Anonymous
• This is John Crittendon, not Rudy Gruere
4/26/2010 11:20:42 AM by Anonymous
• Corner of Oak St and Fifth looking South. Frech Church steeple in distace (now Keweenaw Heritage Center) at corner of Scott St and Fifth St.
4/28/2008 12:56:39 PM by Anonymous
• Ferris Dennis of Atlantic is what might be known as a railroad fanatic". He's dedicated to the railroads of the nation and he's ridden on so many of them that seldom does he spot box car initials that are strange.What makes him interesting at the present time is that he's establishing the Ferris Dennis Railroad of 30 feet in the Atlantic area. The only mobile equpiment that he will have will be a Copper Range caboose, No. 05.Not long back the CRRR locomotive switched the end car onto the old Flour Mill spur at Atlantic and there it was resting when these words were written.The car, substantial in its construction, began to be used by the Copper Range in 1913. It came from the Pittsburgh Shawmut and Northern Railroad and was built by the Russell Snowplow Co. Since its purchase it has been used all the way from McKeever to Gay and from Senter to Freda.Dennis says his line will be the shortest in the United States at 30 to 40 feet in length. The wheels will be retained on the mobile unit and it is noted that there are eight of these. When placed on the Flour Mill spur Dennis well realized that in the former days of Atlantic this is where the town had a flour mill. In the days between 1900 and 1906 Copper Range got a big business life out of Atlantic which operated until the latter year when the mines ceased to function. Later came the Stratton Lumber Co. which also gave the line a big haulage boost.On the very spur on which the 'boose now is perched the former Adams Township Schools student train also stopped. There it waited for pupils while either rock haulage or Freda caterance to pupils from Stanton Township was indulged in.Ferris will tell one that his wife, the former Miss Ester Heikkinen, used to ride the CRRR school train. So did her mother, the former Miss Marie Lehti who used to be a teacher on the range.The No. 05 is in excellent condition. It windows are unaffected by the long period of service it went through and its doors, fore and aft, are near perfect. There are two ladders leading to the cupola and these are also in A-No. 1 state of preservation.When Mr. and Mrs. Dennis have completed moving their essence of railroading three blocks to their homesite they will drive a "golden" spike to commemorate the activity they have engaged in. As for the purpose of the line and caboose, Dennis says it is primarily for the grandchildren. [Daily Mining Gazette Green Sheet Article 1972]"
4/28/2008 1:00:39 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• According to a September, 1911 Sigma Rho Financial Statement booklet this is one of two rooms on the main floor of the fraternity. It is here that you will find your welcome whenever you return.""
4/29/2008 1:15:17 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• maybe scott street calumet between fifth and sixth street
4/29/2008 2:10:41 PM by Anonymous
• The Canal School in Stanton Township is now relegated to a niche in history.Built in 1902 through the efforts of the rural citizenry of the area who contributed labor and materials in its construction, it was one of the outstanding structures along the road which leads from the Houghton bridge corner to the lighthouse at the entrance of Portage Canal.It was typically the little red school house by the side of the road." Its walls reverberated with the laughter and gaiety of children, and the snap of the teacher's fingers and the rap of his ruler could be heard.In its early days the school was dominated by men teachers of stern demeanor. Men who had to contend with boys almost as big and strong as themselves. Later women teachers dared the childish pranks and, as time passed, the behavior of the children conformed to the pattern of good conduct.There were at times, as many as 60 children and two teachers in the one room school. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - May 17, 1957 Edition]"
4/3/2009 9:54:23 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This photograph is mislabeled. The men left to right are William Niemela, Frank Jarvi, one of the Arrigo Bros, Russell Hellman and then an Arrigo brother. The photograph must have been reversed in the original news article.
4/30/2008 11:24:56 AM by Anonymous
Name:Julie CapelI just found out that this baby is my grandfather, Reino Oliver Honka. He had been adopted by a family member after the disaster and we never knew he was our grandfather. The attached photo is Reino Oliver Niemela Honka and his daughter Evelyn Elizabeth Honka Rettig.

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4/30/2014 6:18:31 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dan Leskinen
MTU Class of:
I believe this needs to be re-cataloged as Copper Harbor. Not even close for Eagle Harbor.
4/30/2015 2:10:27 PM by Anonymous
• There is a Millionaire St in Osceola location, you would think with a name like Millionaire St it would be mansions rather than log homes.
4/4/2008 7:31:15 PM by yooper557
• This is the same engine later owned by Clint Jones and the Keweenaw Central Railway which ran a tourist excursion train ride over the old Copper range tracks from Calumet to Lake linden back in the 60's to 70's.
4/4/2011 12:00:45 AM by Anonymous
• In my previous comment regarding Joseph Andreini, I meant to say that both my paternal and MAternal" grandparents lived in the Copper Country when I was growing up. When I am reunited with my own laptop computer, I will try to add some biographical information and photographs of my father, brothers, an aunt and an uncle, all of whom attended and/or graduated from MTU. -- Susan Andreini Headen"
4/5/2011 2:36:40 PM by Anonymous
• The original image is now located in Hanchette & Lawton Case Files on the Copper Miners' Strike (MS-854): Box 1, Folder 27.
4/5/2013 10:08:51 AM by Anonymous
• The original image is now located in Hanchette & Lawton Case Files on the Copper Miners' Strike (MS-854): Box 1, Folder 27.
4/5/2013 10:09:18 AM by Anonymous
• The original image is now located in Hanchette & Lawton Case Files on the Copper Miners' Strike (MS-854): Box 1, Folder 27.
4/5/2013 10:09:32 AM by Anonymous
• The original image is now located in Hanchette & Lawton Case Files on the Copper Miners' Strike (MS-854): Box 1, Folder 27.
4/5/2013 10:09:41 AM by Anonymous
• The original image is now located in Hanchette & Lawton Case Files on the Copper Miners' Strike (MS-854): Box 1, Folder 27.
4/5/2013 10:09:55 AM by Anonymous
• The original image is now located in Hanchette & Lawton Case Files on the Copper Miners' Strike (MS-854): Box 1, Folder 27.
4/5/2013 10:10:05 AM by Anonymous
• The original image is now located in Hanchette & Lawton Case Files on the Copper Miners' Strike (MS-854): Box 1, Folder 27.
4/5/2013 10:11:25 AM by Anonymous
• The original image is now located in Hanchette & Lawton Case Files on the Copper Miners' Strike (MS-854): Box 1, Folder 26.
4/5/2013 10:11:58 AM by Anonymous
• Correct spelling of name should be Karppi, not Kauppi.
4/6/2009 10:27:23 AM by Anonymous
• From: http://www.albionmich.com/history/histor_notebook/020421.shtmlFrom 1902 until 1932 there was an electric interurban line operated by the Houghton County Traction Company. Albion served as a junction transfer station for people going three different directions. The “Albion Streetcar Station” was built in 1902, and it was surrounded by a triangle of tracks. It was operated by August Buralli, who made and sold ice cream (Peninsula brand), and sold confectionery and tobaccos from the site. Behind it was the Albion schoolhouse which burned in the late 1920s.After the streetcar line folded, the Albion Station building became a neighborhood grocery/candy store from 1932 to 1978. In 1978 it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dana and another couple and turned into an old bottle shop. It was expanded into a museum in 1979 and into a glass blowing shop in 1982. It still operates today. When planning your summer vacation this year, why not visit “the other Albion” as part of your itinerary? The address: Albion Station Old Bottle Shop and Lake Superior Glass Works, 98 Rockland St., Calumet, MI 49913. (906) 337-1263. Hours are 9 to 4 daily. Today, Mr. Dana serves as the sole proprietor and glass blower. He is also president of the Coppertown USA preservation group that operates a mining museum in Calumet, and was an officer of the Keweenaw County Historical Society for many years.
4/6/2009 12:04:31 PM by Anonymous
• Mike Irish
4/6/2015 10:41:55 AM by Anonymous
• This photo was taken in front of the Bollman Block at southwest corner of Oak and 8th Streets in Red Jacket (Calumet), in either 1901 or 1902. The Bollman Block was built in 1900 (still unfinished in September of 1900), and the first St. Joseph's Slovenian Catholic Church across the street (which you can see in the reflection on the windows in the photo) was destroyed in a fire on December 8, 1902. For more information on the Bollman Block, see the Copper Country Architects website entry for it here: http://www.social.mtu.edu/CopperCountryArchitects/sha_build.htm, about half-way down the page. - Jeremiah Mason
4/7/2008 3:43:40 PM by Anonymous
• This photo actually shows terra cotta ornamentation on the First National Bank building on the northwest corner of Quincy and Reservation Streets in Hancock, prior to the historic wood windows being replaced. The building was first built in 1888, as designed by Byron Pierce. In 1903, it was expanded and remodeled acording to plans drawn by Archibald Pearce. This ornament dates from that renovation. For more information, see the entry for the addition to this building on the Copper Country Architects webpage here: http://www.social.mtu.edu/CopperCountryArchitects/pc_build.htm, at the bottom of the page. - Jeremiah Mason
4/7/2008 4:01:13 PM by Anonymous
• I drove past this mine for 10 years, as I worked in Seneca mine just past Mohawk. The mine in the picture is Ahmeek 3&4. The same spot where Superior Crafts is located today.
4/7/2010 7:49:37 PM by Anonymous
• This is the first location of the Portage Ship Canal Life-Saving Station. It was 3/4 mile south of the entrance on the Houghton Side of the the canal in Hancock Township. It was first used in 1885. It moved to second location in 1902 which happened to conside with when Stanton Township was formed out of Hancock Township. Keepers/Captains were Steele, Ocha and McCormick. Well known rescues were the Wallaces in Marquette November 18, 1886 when LSS crew put lifeboat on a special run train to Marquette to rescue 24 crew, and again a train with lifeboat and crew went to Marquette for the Alva Bradley Nov. 24, 1887 with rescue of 10 crew. Marquette then got a LSS station shortly thereafter.
4/7/2011 10:53:06 AM by Anonymous
• The Arctic Coal Company's mine entrance to mine #1 on tract 1 (Advent Bay). The original entrance, a simple wooden strucutre, burnt in a fire of November 1911. A new concrete mine entrance and associated buildings was constructed in 1913. In the interim, a temporary entrance structure was used. This photograph appears to show the interim mine structure.
4/8/2008 10:36:13 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Hayward Steam Crane transferring coal to rail cars.
4/8/2008 10:37:37 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's staff house in Longyear City.
4/8/2008 10:38:16 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• View of Longyear City from above the Arctic Coal Company's mine 1.
4/8/2008 10:39:27 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph appears to show the Arctic Coal Company's concrete powderhouse located on the east side of Longyear Valley. The structure was constructed in the summer of 1913 and was designed to hold 10 tons of powder.
4/8/2008 10:44:26 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Employees of the Arctic Coal Company constructing a steam crane, known as the 'Brown steam-hoist crane,' in 1913. The crane was purchased to augment and possibly overtake the process of loading coal into rail cars from the 'Hayward' crane, which was unreliable.
4/8/2008 10:53:33 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Brown Hoisting steam crane at the Arctic Coal Company's coal stockpile. The crane was purchased in Cleveland, Ohio. The crane base remains in Longyearbyen, near the loaction shown in the photograph.
4/8/2008 10:58:01 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear City in 1908. The rail line in the foreground was a simple narrow gauge railway running from the company dock to Longyear City. The line was upgraded in 1910 to a broad guage following a straighter route.
4/8/2008 11:02:26 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's mine 1 and one building of Longyear City in Tract 1 (Advent Bay).
4/8/2008 11:05:31 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A wonderfully clear and well composed by the renound photographer Anders Beer Wilse. The Photograph shows the upper terminal of the Arctic Coal Company's aerial tramway. A coal bunker with the capacity of 1,200 tons of coal is under construction. The company's #1 mine is partly visible on the upper right of the photograph.
4/8/2008 11:13:29 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear City on Advent Bay in 1909.
4/8/2008 11:13:58 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's dock on Advent Bay. The company's ship, the W. D. Munroe, is anchored near the dock to the right.
4/8/2008 11:14:58 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The coal stockpile shown here was an improvised solution to the need to store coal over winter. Over the winter season of 1908-09, the winter superintendent stocked coal under the aerial tramway near the dock. To get this coal to the company's dock, an incline railway was quickly erected in the summer of 1909, part of which is visible to the right of the stockpile.
4/8/2008 11:17:57 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's dock and storage area on Tract 1 (Advent Bay).
4/8/2008 11:21:18 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear Valley, now known as Longyeardalen, in the Arctic Coal Company's Tract 1 (Advent Bay). A section of Longyear City is visible.
4/8/2008 11:22:11 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's dock and storage area in Tract 1 (Advent Bay).
4/8/2008 11:24:00 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• In 1911-1912, the Arctic Coal Company searched European and American ship markets to purchase a ship to carry supplies and coal to and from its Spitsbergen operations. J. M. Longyear, president, favored Great Lakes ships and bought the 'Turret Belle' in Canada. Longyear renamed the ship the 'Kwasind' which is Chippewa for 'strong man.' Longyear then formed the Arctic Steamship Company to manage this ship and the company's other ship, the W. D. Munroe.
4/8/2008 11:32:40 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• 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
• Longyear City, now known as Longyearbyen, near Advent Bay.
4/8/2008 11:38:52 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Mine #2, under the ownership of Store Norske. The Arctic Coal Company prepared this mine for full exploitation in 1912. This photograph shows how Store Norske developed the mine, now known as Mine 2a, after they purchased the property.
4/8/2008 11:45:57 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• 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
• Part of the rail and aerial tramway facilities associated with Mine 2, now known as Mine 2a, developed by Store Norske after they purchased the Arctic Coal Company properties in 1916.
4/8/2008 11:49:51 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows a power house under construction by Store Norske. The Arctic Coal Company's powerhouse is visible in the background. A new powerhouse was necessary for the mining operation as the original power house suffered from a number of issues including sinking foundations, some unreliable equipment, and water and cooling difficulties. The newer power house still stands today. The original power house remains as ruins.
4/8/2008 11:59:45 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Photo also appears in The Michigan Tech Centennial on page 97.
4/8/2008 4:47:45 PM by Anonymous
• The Arctic Coal Company's staff house, built 1908. To the left is a small bunkhouse (#3) probably built in 1907. In the background on the mountainside is the company's main mine, mine #1, and its aerial tramway which leads to the company's dock.
4/8/2008 9:56:26 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• I am the little girl in the vehicle. I've never seen this photo before! Thank you for the unexpected treasure. -- Joanne (Lehtola) Riley
4/8/2013 7:23:43 AM by Anonymous
Name:Steve Walton; faculty
I would suggest the title of this be Aerial view of Quincy Smelter. (the ski hill is not in the photo)
4/8/2014 12:21:18 PM by Anonymous
Name:Cheryl Vince" Vencato

Second row...left to right is ....Cheryl"Vince"Vencato(Captain) and started the Houghton Angels,Cheri Datto,Lori Jo Wakeham,Dorothy Davettilla,Cheryl Rouhonen,Laurie Engman,Wendy Paulson,Pat Tussing-(Manager)Jim Vencato-sponsor "
4/8/2014 8:22:03 AM by Anonymous
• The Brown Hoist steam crane loading coal into a coal hopper. Advent Bay is in the background.
4/9/2008 1:16:15 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The dock and storage area of Store Norske's property on Spitsbergen. Owned and developed by the Arctic Coal Company from 1905, the land was purchased by Store Norske, a norwegian syndicate of investors, in 1916. This photograph shows all the elements built by the Arctic Coal Company remain in place and a few small elements have been added, such as the small warehouse at the back-right of the photograph. That building and the adjacent warehouse to the far right remain standing today.
4/9/2008 1:20:40 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Amsterdam Island, in north-west Svalbard, was the location of a major 17th century Dutch whaling settlement, Smeerenburg.
4/9/2008 1:23:34 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This photograph shows the Arctic Coal Company's dock and aerial tramway system under construction. They were both completed in 1908.
4/9/2008 1:25:40 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's powerhouse, adjacent Advent Bay. The rail incline consisted of four broad-guage rail lines which connected the company's dock with the coal stockpile (up the hill to the right).
4/9/2008 1:27:11 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's warehouse and coal storage area in Longyear Valley, adjacent Advent Bay.
4/9/2008 1:31:36 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A photograph of the Arctic Coal Company's warehouse, coal storage, and powerhouse area from near the end of the company'd dock. The rail line at the center of the photograph connected the dock with Longyear City. The rail lines to the right connected the dock with the coal stockpile, seen in the background. The company's powerhouse is the multi-section structure with three smoke stacks in the center of the photograph. The small house to the left was a small winch-house, powered by the powerhouse, which pulled rail cars up an incline at the end of the dock (not visible here).
4/9/2008 1:35:41 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear City in Longyear Valley. The Arctic Coal Company's mine #1 and aerial tramway are visible on the slope above.
4/9/2008 1:36:39 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• The Arctic Coal Company's dock, warehouse and coal storage area on Advent Bay.
4/9/2008 1:37:15 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Longyear Valley under the company Store Norske. The group of buildings in the foreground is the settlement Nybyen, which is located adjacent Longyear City or Longyearbyen.
4/9/2008 1:41:06 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• 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
• A view of a section of Longyear Valley. Part of Longyear city is visible to the left and part of the Arctic Coal Company's coal stockpile and associated structures is visible to the right.
4/9/2008 1:45:24 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A Scott Turner photo album containing this photograph has a caption which reads VII-9-1913. Starting new opening at No.2 Mine, on East side of Longyear Valley, Dalburg and MacGavin. Show seam of coal. September 6.""
4/9/2008 2:54:01 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This item was donated by Susan Harvey Adams.
4/9/2009 9:48:35 AM by Anonymous
• This is Round Island Light on the island of the same name in the lower St. Marys River. The island and lighthouse are privately owned. The lighthouse was renovated into a luxury vacation home, with the work completed in 2002. -- Wayne Sapulski, GLLKA
4/9/2011 12:11:31 PM by Anonymous
Name:Pat Kolka
MTU Class of:
Jim Kolka was my uncle and his brother or my dad was Bernard Kolka of Kolka's standard what was in Hancock MI.

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5/1/2010 7:29:17 PM by Anonymous
• Recently I read from the Email bag from which someone commented on the demise of the great Bosch brewery and the loss of the Gilt Edge premium beer. The statement read like this - the loss had to be in the late 60's or early 70's." First, anyone interested in the history of the Houghton area, such as I am, must read the book, Joseph Bosch and the Bosch Brewery Company by local resident and historian Clarence J. Monette. This book is available through the Houghton County Historical society and local stores.To give a brief history, Joseph Bosch (brewery founder) was 4 years old when he came to America from Germany with his parents in 1854. In 1867, he and his parents resided in Houghton briefly and then moved to Lake Linden where he ultimately began his brewery operations as a young man. He died in Lake Linden in 1937 at age 86 after 63 years in the local brewery business and is buried in the local cemetery in Lake Linden. Existing evidence of his former presence can be seen today in the Michigan House Restaurant (love the wraps) in Calumet when he built this building in 1905 to serve as a bar to sell his beer. The Lindell restaurant in Lake Linden was built by Bosch in 1888 as a warehouse to store his beer.Briefly, the end of the Bosch brewery formerly and officially came to an end on Friday Sept. 28, 1973 where festivities were held at the brewery at the Canal Road location. This was after 99 years of successful beer production. The end came mainly due to cheaper beer and certainly not better tasting beer coming into the area for distribution and sale. The festivities at the brewery began early in the day on Friday and continued well after 6:00 pm that night on Sept.28. After the initial plant festivities and speeches in the afternoon, a number of horses pulling a wagon from the 1800's and hauling a one-half barrel of beer (brewed the old time way) marched 4 miles to Schmidt's Corner bar (the bar still exists today) and more celebration took place and so well deserved. As much as I myself enjoyed beer (thanks to my German background) and love of local history, what a sight this must have been!!Beer was served at 5 cents a glass -"Five cent beers were in style to relate back to the days when a nickel could purchase a good draught of the suds."The attendance at the bar was so busy that people "were almost crawling over one another."Today the UPPCO (Upper Peninsula Power Co.) occupies the property and little evidence of what was once a brewery is sadly gone.Terry Braun -66"
5/1/2012 12:35:12 PM by Anonymous
• Recently I read from the Email bag from which someone commented on the demise of the great Bosch brewery and the loss of the Gilt Edge premium beer. The statement read like this - the loss had to be in the late 60's or early 70's." First, anyone interested in the history of the Houghton area, such as I am, must read the book, Joseph Bosch and the Bosch Brewery Company by local resident and historian Clarence J. Monette. This book is available through the Houghton County Historical society and local stores.To give a brief history, Joseph Bosch (brewery founder) was 4 years old when he came to America from Germany with his parents in 1854. In 1867, he and his parents resided in Houghton briefly and then moved to Lake Linden where he ultimately began his brewery operations as a young man. He died in Lake Linden in 1937 at age 86 after 63 years in the local brewery business and is buried in the local cemetery in Lake Linden. Existing evidence of his former presence can be seen today in the Michigan House Restaurant (love the wraps) in Calumet when he built this building in 1905 to serve as a bar to sell his beer. The Lindell restaurant in Lake Linden was built by Bosch in 1888 as a warehouse to store his beer.Briefly, the end of the Bosch brewery formerly and officially came to an end on Friday Sept. 28, 1973 where festivities were held at the brewery at the Canal Road location. This was after 99 years of successful beer production. The end came mainly due to cheaper beer and certainly not better tasting beer coming into the area for distribution and sale. The festivities at the brewery began early in the day on Friday and continued well after 6:00 pm that night on Sept.28. After the initial plant festivities and speeches in the afternoon, a number of horses pulling a wagon from the 1800's and hauling a one-half barrel of beer (brewed the old time way) marched 4 miles to Schmidt's Corner bar (the bar still exists today) and more celebration took place and so well deserved. As much as I myself enjoyed beer (thanks to my German background) and love of local history, what a sight this must have been!!Beer was served at 5 cents a glass -"Five cent beers were in style to relate back to the days when a nickel could purchase a good draught of the suds."The attendance at the bar was so busy that people "were almost crawling over one another."Today the UPPCO (Upper Peninsula Power Co.) occupies the property and little evidence of what was once a brewery is sadly gone.Terry Braun -66"
5/1/2012 1:03:14 PM by Anonymous
• I lived in the Scott Hotel from June 58 until June 1961. My father was the manager, Roland Kendall. My mother was the food manager. We had the civic clubs for lunch every week and as the newspaper review pointed out, The best Dining room within 100 miles! I graduated from Hancock High School in 1960.crkendall@yahoo.com
5/10/2010 11:42:23 AM by Anonymous
• My mother said Wake up, the hotel is on fire." The Scott Hotel was attached to the Kerredge Theatre by a garage that could fit two cars. The Kerrege was on fire bout 2 am. It was 1959, not 56. Set by a kid who was mad for being tossed out by the manager. He had set several other fires around town and was caught and sent away. The Hotel had a sprinkler system which saved it but caused extensive damage. My dad was the Manager of the Scott Hotel, Roland Kendall, at the time. I lived in the Hotel from June 58 till June 61."
5/10/2010 12:52:02 PM by Anonymous
• My father Roland Kendall, manager of the Scott Hotel and his friend Cliff Paulson went to Milwaukee to the ski Club to get the group to come to Hancock! They had displays showing how much snow fell each year. I think it was 276 inches the year before. Several ski clubs came and stayed at the Scott Hotel!! I lived in the hotel from June 58 till June 61.
5/10/2010 1:03:18 PM by Anonymous
• This is a ship that was named after my great grandfather Thomas F. Colewho lived in Michigan and worked in the copper mining industry.
5/10/2012 8:51:23 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dick Toth
MTU Class of:
I was there from 1964 - 1966. Remember Donald Hill, Denis Gilbertson, Bob Tomasockas, Howard Fitzgerald.
5/11/2010 5:23:43 PM by Anonymous
• Launch view of the lumber hooker MARK B. COVELL at the shipyard of Burger & Burger, Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1888. -- Karl Kuttruff
5/11/2011 9:52:31 PM by Anonymous
Name:Graham Jaehnig
MTU Class of:2002
This is the St. Claire Mine, east of the Phoenix Copper Company in Keweenaw County.
5/11/2015 10:19:09 PM by Anonymous
• This is referred to as a Second-Motion Friction gear driven hoist. The grooved wheel attached to the iron shaft was operated by the engine. It was raised off of the drum by steam power, which would cause the drum to stop rotating. Later on, when hoisting technology advanced, newer hoists were referred to as Direct Acting hoists" to distinguish them from this older type friction gear driven hoist."
5/11/2015 10:41:25 PM by Anonymous
• The fire took place Dec. 30, 1974 to the best of my recollection, I had just checked the building a few hours earlier with my wife and found everything in order. I was Secretry of Sigma Rho Incorporated at the time and I remember the fire well. After I received the fire call I immediately left for Chassell as I rounded the corner by the MTU Golf Course I was greeted with a large, bright orange glow in the sky. I was schocked by the site and remember thinking that I would undoubtedly be looking at a substanial if not total loss. When I arrived on the scene the entire main body of the house was gone with the exception of the chimney. The only part of the structure that was standing was the wing, an addition to the main house that was built by the Worcesters (pronounced Wooster) for their caretaker/cook and to house their kitchen. The head of the Chassell Fire Department said that they might be able to save that portion of the structure - I asked if that would be dangerous and he said yes. I told him that it would not be worth the risk, a few minutes later the fire in the wing basically exploded up and out with a cyclone like tounge of fire almost reaching the carriage house/garage threatening to engulf that structure, the carriage house/garage still exists today and is the only structure that remains that was part of the Worchesters original summer residence. Doug Lancour 69" "
5/13/2008 7:54:50 PM by Anonymous
Name:Hans Klein
MTU Class of:
Uncle Freddy!
5/13/2010 10:24:08 AM by Anonymous
Name:Hans Klein
MTU Class of:
My grandfather, Coach" Charles LaPointe was only a "coach" because of a leg injury received during WWII. He was a damn good athlete in his youth."
5/13/2010 10:27:15 AM by Anonymous
• This image has to date from after June 9th, 1887. On that day the Portage Lake Mining Gazette reported that a town petition was passed to place the power line poles visible on the right hand side. The high resolution version of this image clearly shows a suspended light hanging from the power line in front of the third building down on the right along the top row of windows. The dirt roadway shown in the image must pre-date 1900 since it was paved when the streetcar line was put in. While I was doing research on the early electrification of Houghton and Hancock I kept coming back to this image as a great example of what the first system looked like after it was put into place. Thank you to all of the staff at the archives for your help providing sources and information like this to scholars.
5/13/2010 1:04:10 AM by fsuthy
• This photograph appeared on page 10 of the Daily Mining Gazette on November 16, 1965. It appears to be a piece of so-called wild art" -- just an illustration with a caption, unrelated to a longer article. The photograph ran under the heading "Where the Action Is" and had the following caption: "Typical of winter are scenes throughout the area such as this group of Laurium youths in a game of rough and tumble street hockey." The photograph is credited to Carl Peterson of the Gazette."
5/14/2007 9:37:16 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Laus is the correct spelling for Pete, and Erik was known on campus as Sparks. The premise of the skit was that this was a ROTC commander's nightmare. The skit was narrated by Jim Quinlan and the commander was Mike Squeak" Svisco. It may also be noted that the basic idea for the skit was from Fr. Bill McGee, and he and Alice Hainault, wife of Prof. Paul Hainault, were two of the biggest fans. A rehearsal error with me turning the wrong way, then realizing the mistake and running to catch up was kept in the final version and brought the biggest laugh of the production. Serendipity does often apply. -- Greg Switek, MTU Class of 1972 "
5/14/2008 8:06:22 PM by Anonymous
• View of the Columbian Shelden Mill, which was located slightly west of present MTU campus and east of Franklin Square, 1868," --Michigan Tech Centennial (1985), p. xxi"
5/14/2009 1:58:50 PM by Anonymous
• I'd be interested to make contact with you. Please message me at enordber@mtu.edu -- Erik Nordberg, Michigan Tech Archives.
5/14/2012 8:18:10 AM by Anonymous
• This photo was a victory photo for the Red Jacket firefighters. I have ancestors in this photo and did some minor research. The museum in Lake Linden has a couple of similar photos and you will find the trophy in the Calumet Village hall. They used to have tournaments held by the Upper Peninsula Firefighters Association(U.P.F.A.). I believe I have this one and it is the 1909 championship. -- Frank Pando

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5/15/2011 8:41:48 PM by Anonymous
• My father (Walter F.Mike" Thomas) was stationed there from 68-70, and was killed in a traffic accident there. He was in route to a party in his 56 Corvette to celebrate being promoted to Tech Sgt...I was 6 years old at the time. Curious if anyone remembers? MIKEACS@AOL.COM"
5/15/2015 1:31:57 AM by Anonymous
• I believe this would be the South Cliff Mine, the Methodist church is in the background. Since J T Reeder took this photo, I am guessing this may have been the Tamarack Mining Co exploration. 1910ish
5/17/2009 9:55:25 PM by yooper557
• This looks to be while the Cliff Mine was still open and working, note the smoke coming out of the smokestack.
5/17/2009 9:58:21 PM by yooper557
Name:Ned Aldridge
MTU Class of:1971
This truck was a Walters Sno-Fighter. It had a massive gasoline V8 engine, a Vee" type plow and wings on both sides so it could clear a country road in one pass. No power steering I am sure, must have been a tough job to operate it."
5/17/2013 9:09:43 PM by Anonymous
• I was stationed there in 1962... smaller then, but more radar domes.
5/18/2008 8:11:28 PM by Anonymous
• I wonder if that old clock is still around?
5/18/2009 3:43:06 PM by Anonymous
Name:Ned Aldridge
MTU Class of:1971
The mine shaft house shown in the Ahmeek 3&4. The light colored area beyond 3&4 is the Ray Aldridge sawmill operation. My father, Harry Aldridge, worked there from the mid 1940's to the mid 50's
5/18/2013 9:31:16 PM by Anonymous
• This is twin lakes, across from the park. They are Jack Short, Cheryl Kadletz, Debbie Brandt, and my brother Jerry Bruso. Bernard Keranen made the shelter to wait for the mailman.
5/19/2007 2:29:22 AM by Anonymous
• Infant is my grandmother, Blanche O'neil (Plante) who was born on Isle Royale.The man and woman are my great grandparents. Dale Plante...Calumet
5/19/2007 8:04:07 AM by Anonymous
• I see St. Peter's Cathedral is on the horizon, before the steeples were completed
5/19/2008 10:08:03 AM by yellowkayak
• WOW!
5/19/2008 2:11:38 PM by Anonymous
• I remember the brewery fire very well, as I probably took the picture you published in your last newsletter. I was staying in the Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity house that was located at the foot of the Houghton side of the bridge next to the Clark gas station. One morning in June, 1974 (I can’t remember the exact date) numerous fire trucks went through the intersection past the bridge heading towards the Houghton canal. I thought nothing of it until I heard the announcers on WMPL say the old Bosch Brewery was on fire.My roommate at the frat house was Alan Johnson, who was a photographer for The Lode, but who was at the time of the fire, in the lower peninsula. Seeing his camera and a roll of film in the closet, I decided to head out to the canal to try and get some pictures.The building had a concrete/brick exterior with a wooden interior and roof. When I arrived, the brewery was fully engulfed. Numerous fire departments were on scene with about 20-25 firefighters, and it was obvious by then that the fire would totally destroy the structure. I started shooting pictures with Alan’s camera and probably shot a whole roll of film at the brewery.When Alan returned for the fall session, I told him what I had shot. He developed the film and The Lode published several of the pictures in an early edition during the fall term of 1974.-Glen Wirtanen, Class of 1975
5/2/2012 10:29:13 AM by Anonymous
• I remember the brewery fire very well, as I probably took the picture you published in your last newsletter. I was staying in the Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity house that was located at the foot of the Houghton side of the bridge next to the Clark gas station. One morning in June, 1974 (I can’t remember the exact date) numerous fire trucks went through the intersection past the bridge heading towards the Houghton canal. I thought nothing of it until I heard the announcers on WMPL say the old Bosch Brewery was on fire.My roommate at the frat house was Alan Johnson, who was a photographer for The Lode, but who was at the time of the fire, in the lower peninsula. Seeing his camera and a roll of film in the closet, I decided to head out to the canal to try and get some pictures.The building had a concrete/brick exterior with a wooden interior and roof. When I arrived, the brewery was fully engulfed. Numerous fire departments were on scene with about 20-25 firefighters, and it was obvious by then that the fire would totally destroy the structure. I started shooting pictures with Alan’s camera and probably shot a whole roll of film at the brewery.When Alan returned for the fall session, I told him what I had shot. He developed the film and The Lode published several of the pictures in an early edition during the fall term of 1974.-Glen Wirtanen, Class of 1975
5/2/2012 10:38:46 AM by Anonymous
• Father Bill McGee had spent a year studying at Berkeley (1968-69) and People's Park was named for the one found in that area. It was the people of Michigan Tech who built it on property owned by St. Albert the Great and was the area between the church and the Student Development Complex. Tech students were a different breed from what was found on many of the other campuses in 1970. Many of us continued to go to class during the strike, and the park was a positive reaction to the tragic events that took place at Kent State in Ohio. The undeveloped wooded area was cleaned up of underbrush, a small stream was dammed to make a pond, the church's flagpole was moved across the parking lot to the park, but the flag was later stolen, and some old mining cars were placed there. We also did some work along the front of the church to blend that area into the look of the park as that stream flowed through a culvert and past the building's flowing fountain on the front lawn. The water ran in the open ditch along Upland Road.Both Fathers McGee and Shiroda had great relations with the community and there were materials and equipment donated by local businesses and community members. I hesitate to name any because I am certain that I never knew all who made this happen and it would be a shame to miss some of them. Also, so many donors were silent about their gifts.-Greg Switek
5/2/2012 12:25:06 PM by Anonymous
• Yes, I remember this well. I was a Chapel Rat up at St. Al's when this occurred. As I recall, there was a meeting of campus activists at St Al's after the shootings at Kent State. Emotions were high and there was a lot of anger and confusion. The question was How do we react to the shootings?". Suggestions ran the gamut - everything from peaceful marches through Houghton & Hancock to burning down the ROTC building. It was then that Fr. Bill McGee offered the property across from the church to be turned into what became "People's Park". I remember him saying that we needed to respond positively and peacefully. So, for the next 4 or 5 days, there was a steady stream of students (Toots. as we were called then) up and down "cardiac hill" clearing brush, landscaping, planting flowers and basically turning the overgrown piece of land into the park. Later, rumor had it that a letter was sent from the group to the Michigan State Legislature with a book of matches stapled to it, stating that while we had the means to a violent reaction we chose to be positive and productive. Maybe an urban legend, but it made a lot of us feel pretty good about what had happened.One additional note worth mentioning. I've written about this in the past but it bears repeating. While the media was interviewing then President Smith about the park, a lone figure came up the hill to work. He wore jeans and a hooded jacket and fit in with everyone else. He went off to a corner of the park, worked for an hour or so, finished and simply left without any word. The person was Harold Meese the Dean of Students. As you can tell, that left quite an impression with me. The weekend showed how unique and special these two men were - Fr. Bill and Dean Meese.-Ken Kamlay"
5/2/2012 12:25:58 PM by Anonymous
• The locomotive shown here is one of two engines owned by the Conglomerate Mining Company. Information in the Herman Page Collection indicates that two engines were manufactured for the Conglomerate Mining Company in 1883 for use on their railroad running from the mine site at present-day Delaware Location to their smelter at Lac La Belle. At some point this line was known as the Lac La Belle and Calumet Railroad. The engines were built by the Baldwin company with a 2-8-0 configuration. According to the Page Collection (Box 2, Folder 35) one of the engines (#1 built in May 1883 / Baldwin #6749) was later sold to the Hines Lumber Company of Wisconsin. The other engine (#2 built in July 1883 / Baldwin #6733) continued in service with the Keweenaw Central Railroad and was later sold and moved to the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad (formerly known as the Deerfield River Railroad). Photographs from the Smithsonian of the engine in HT&W designation are included in the Herman Page Collection, Box 2, Folder 36.
5/20/2008 10:32:19 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This is not a photo of the World's Fair Load of Logs exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair from May through October 1893. That load had only 50 high quality similar size logs totaling 36,055 board feet (load height 33'3, weight 144 tons) and was the largest load hauled by a single team of horse. The hauling was done by Thomas Nester along the Ontonagon River in February 1893.The pictured load, with two team of horses hitched to it, is larger with 36,600 bf noted, but had almost twice as many logs, with varying size and some logs of poorer quality. This picture is likely from the same era, but the location is uncertain. One source places it in Western Marquette County. (MTU Archives Note: This was an anonymous response with no source provided for the information)"
5/20/2008 11:53:04 AM by Anonymous
• Horses wore snow shoes," iron horseshoes with special cleats or studs added to provide traction in the snow."
5/20/2011 9:54:39 AM by Archivist
• I believe the photograph is actually from Champion, Michigan - I've seen the same image eleswhere associated with Champion or Beacon (a location in Champion), Michigan. Description says there is a large pile of iron ore pellets - highly unlikely given the historic time period, in addition the material in the pile is much too coarse to be pellets.
5/21/2007 7:35:48 AM by Anonymous
• There is a companion image in the hands of Reeder descendant Mike Cooper, taken from the other end of the engine, labeled Old Mill Engine @ Central Mine Keweenaw Co. Built by West Point Foundry, N.Y. 18667. Scrapd Fall of 1922. Walking beam or St. Boat type of Engine.""
5/21/2010 10:08:01 AM by pemartin
• This was taken on the north side of Red Jacket Rd looking south. On the left is the rear of the Calumet Congregational Church, on the right half way up is the old armory which burned down in the early 1940's, and in the distance is the C&H bathhouse and pool.
5/21/2015 4:37:56 PM by Anonymous
• In the LeaderShape '98 photo...Kevin Shaggy" Lutz is in the Michigan Tech sweatshirt. Kevin later married fellow LeaderShape '98 Alum Jessica Shauver in what is believed to be the first Michigan Tech LeaderShape marriage. Jessica recently gave birth to twins, the couple's third and fourth child! Others in the picture include Eric Kirchner (two in front of Kevin) and Brian Rentner (front-Civil Eng t-shirt). A thank you is also in order to another LeaderShape '98 Alum--CPT Matt Mesko. Matt, a 2001 Chem Eng graduate, joined the Army a few years after he was out of school and is currently serving our country on his second tour in Iraq. Thank you Mesko! -- Ryan DeDecker, MTU LeaderShape '98, MTU Chem Eng alumni '02 "
5/22/2008 9:16:58 AM by Anonymous
• Although I'm not in the picture, I recognize most of the people in it. Too bad I can only remember one name! I'm pretty sure the guy in the white t-shirt at the back of the group is Matt Zimmer. Thanks for bringing back great memories, -- Laura Haas, MTU Class of 2000
5/22/2008 9:18:04 AM by Anonymous
• Matt Zimmer is the first face on the left - probably was 1994 though, not 1998. -- Amy J. Wolcott, PE
5/22/2008 9:18:31 AM by Anonymous
• The woman in the MTSF photo is Kim Waldron. She standing next to Brian Hoag. I recognized her but had to search my yearbooks to come up with her name. I, too, was a member of the MTSF in 80-81 and 81-82. -- Juliet ('etta) Crawford Pattullo, MTU Class of 1982
5/22/2008 9:19:42 AM by Anonymous
• In the MTSF picture, Woman" appears to be someone I shared a dorm room with for part of my freshman year in Coed hall -- Kim Waldron. -- Patty (Philipps) Scully "
5/22/2008 9:20:35 AM by Anonymous
• Upper row (L to R): Brian Hoag, Kim Waldron, Tom McGovern, Werner Gutknecht / Lower row (L to R): Gary Hodges, Steve Bailo, Brain Wines, Stefano Savastano -- Kathy Calder Haselmaier, MTU Class of 1984
5/22/2008 9:21:09 AM by Anonymous
• Glass lantern slide from Frederick Fraley Sharpless collection states this is a photo from the class of 1894.
5/22/2009 9:19:46 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Ran across another copy of this photo stating it is of the Houghton High School Hockey Team - Interscholastic Champions 1908-09.""
5/22/2009 9:29:40 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:John Mills
MTU Class of:
This is a photo of the Lake Linden Power Plant located at the foot of Gregory Street at the head of Torch Lake (in background). This building later became the studio of Jack Anderson, sculptor of the Bishop Baraga Shrine of the Snowshoe Priest. The building is also in the background of your identified photo - funeral procession (horse drawn hearse - rear view) exiting Gregory Street (originally Cemetary Road). The building is still standing.
5/22/2010 11:22:24 AM by Anonymous
• This is the racetrack at Gregoryville, not a park. The track was later plowed over and used as a potato field.
5/23/2007 10:01:59 PM by cdrake
• The correct spelling is Gregoire.
5/23/2007 10:03:10 PM by cdrake
• This is actually the Baraga County Courthouse in L'Anse, still in use today. - Jeremiah Mason
5/23/2011 9:19:54 AM by Anonymous
• This was actually in Mason
5/23/2015 8:58:05 AM by Anonymous
• I see this picture many times, I think this is at Electric Park, riding an ATV into the old site on the right of way, the small downhill is to the south, the platform would be on the right side, and you can see evidence of the second track.
5/25/2007 7:58:06 PM by Anonymous
• Title is reversed, A&LS RR
5/25/2007 8:46:07 PM by yooper557
• This looks like a view inside the engine house that burned, notice the wood that holds the couplers are gone along with no cabs for the engineers.Also the engines being ice covered and indoors, probably water turned to ice from whatever fire hoses they used.
5/25/2007 9:09:17 PM by yooper557
• This photo is reversed. I have a stereoview of this same scene at a slightly different angle. The small shaft in the foreground is probably Hecla #11, the next in line looks to be the double shaft #9 and 10.The double shaft #9 and 10 was very close to C&H #13 on the Osceola lode, which in later years when reopened in the late 1950's was called Osceola #13. In this photo as is, Mine St would be to the left of the shafthouse and the old Mineral Range would be to the south.
5/25/2009 8:59:37 AM by yooper557
• The house in the background is actually the Bosch Home before the addition of the spire (where the chimney is seen now) and the porch section which extended the house back more.
5/26/2008 3:51:36 PM by Anonymous
• ACC-09-097-01According to what Fred Longpre told his son, this was the last haul of rock before they were to send a man car down to pick up the workers. The hoist operator was sidetracked and gabbing with someone either in the engine house or on the phone and wasn't paying attention to the car. It proceeded to get ripped out of the shaft house and over the cable stands. This photo shows one of the stands hanging from the shaft house.ACC-0-097-02This is another shot of the wreckage from the same angle.ACC-09-097-03This is another shot from the same angle taken from near what may be the remains of the foundation of the old #1 engine house.ACC-09-097-04This shows the remaining cable stands leading to the #2 engine house where my grandpa worked. Carol Longpre is in the front seat of the Ford.ACC-09-097-05This was taken from the opposite side of the shaft house. #2 engine house is in the back and the boiler house for #2 is to the right near the stack. The square box near the bottom of the stack is the rock car that was ripped out of the shaft house.ACC-09-097-06This last photo was taken from back near the engine house. You can see some of the wreckage from the first cable stands in the distance. If this accident had taken place one load later, there would have been many dead workers. [Photo descriptions submitted by Fred Longpre.]
5/26/2010 12:35:26 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:Daryl Ann Anderson
MTU Class of:
So glad to find these old images. I took several photos of this old stack and was looking for information to accompany them in my Flickr photostream. Here's a link to one of them:http://www.flickr.com/photos/darylannanderson/4640854818/in/photostream/. The other two are viewable there too.
5/27/2010 12:08:48 PM by Anonymous
Name:Allen Niemi
MTU Class of:1979
This machine looks like a disk filter. Similar filters are used today to produce a semi-dry cake" from a concentrated ore slurry in the iron mining industry, for example, at the Tilden Mine near Ishpeming, Michigan."
5/27/2011 9:20:15 AM by Anonymous
• This must be the individual that Sherman Gym was named after. I believe it was torn down to make way for the Roza Center.
5/27/2015 12:13:43 PM by Anonymous
• I'm reasonably certain that this is Trinity Episcopal Church in Houghton and that the image (scan) is reversed. The building was framed in Hancock then was moved to the corner of Montezuma and Pewabic in 1861. It served the Houghton community until ca. 1906. A newer Trinity Episcopal Church, opened in 1910, remains on the site to this day. See No Neg 2006-02-03-002 for comparison. Additional images exist of the early TEC in Houghton that match this structure and fence line.
5/27/2015 5:20:08 PM by John Haeussler
Name:Tim Baroni
MTU Class of:1980
This may be Sam Tidwell's famous tie class. The picture is of my Uncle who graduated in the first class at MTU that passed their accounting certifications.
5/28/2011 11:08:07 AM by Anonymous
Name:Alex Ciesla
MTU Class of:2015
This home was built in 1899 by Allen Rees, Esquire and designed by H.L. Ottenheimer. Rees was Houghton County Prosecuting Attorney and the home remained in his family for sixty two years before being sold to the Remington Family. In 1995 the home was bought and restored by the Sullivan family and converted into a Bed & Breakfast. In 2005 the house was bought by Lambda Chi Alpha Phi Phi Zeta Fraternity.
5/28/2014 12:21:00 PM by Anonymous
• Bethany Lutheran Church Mohawk
5/3/2012 10:13:35 PM by Anonymous
• I am mystery queen candidate behind Laura Hine! Second from left.What a hoot.This had to be fall 1968. My name was Cathy Taylor (class of 1971).-Cathy Aimone-Martin
5/3/2012 12:21:28 PM by Anonymous
• This image is shown in reverse.
5/31/2007 5:38:15 AM by cpomazal
• This locomotive was later sold to the Quincy & Torch Lake Railroad (Quincy Mining Co.) and it became their #5.
5/31/2007 7:48:03 PM by Anonymous
• Yes, that is the back of Quincy Shaft #7, with Rockhouse #4 directly adjacent to it. The picture was taken from a point very close to the Quincy school. Photo circa 1912.
5/31/2007 8:09:39 PM by Anonymous
• Sorry, but that is not Quincy #4.
5/31/2007 8:15:15 PM by Anonymous
• Copper City had a coal dock to service local customers and chances are that is what this is.
5/31/2013 7:50:06 PM by yooper557
• My great-grandmother housed the crew and cared for them during the storm and after wards my grandpa helped drive the cars across the ice and into Copper Harbor.
5/4/2011 11:58:55 PM by Anonymous
• The Arctic Coal Company constructed this hut in 1907 as a way to augment its food supply through hunting. Hunting here was generally unsuccessful and the company complained about over killing by tourists and irresponsible Norwegian hunting practices. An exploration party, independent of the company, visited the hut in May 1913. Dr. Rüdiger later wrote of the hut: “In the hut were all sorts of provisions and utensils and the first indications of approaching civilization – empty beer bottles with the inscription “Bayrisk Øl.” The hut itself was small, with three bunks, one above the other, fireplace, table, and chairs set out: it had as a tiny Vorraum [vestibule], a horse-stall, and outside a two-wheeled cart . . .” (Dole, N., 1922. America in Spitsbergen, The Romance of an Arctic Coal-Mine, Boston : Marshall-Jones Company. P194.)
5/5/2008 11:14:02 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Lots of memories in that photo...I lived there! I lived in one of Paul Herveat's apartments over Surplus Outlet and the Sherwin Williams paint store, which would be the building at the very left-hand edge of the photo. In fact, I still have daily memories of that time. Herveat was known for being cheap and not keeping much pressure in the boiler, so very little heat made it up to the apartments on the second floor. My apartment was at the back of the building and overlooked the Portage. When the winter winds whipped down the canal, it got blue-fingernail cold.The apartment had an extra-long (5.5 ft), cast iron, lion's paw bathtub. If that tub could talk, I'd be in big trouble! The bathroom was a sizeable 8' x 12', and because it had a radiator but no exterior windows, it was the warmest room in the place. I think my friends and I did everything but eat there. I remember a couple good parties! Lined with floor pillows, the tub would comfortably seat three.I left Tech for a year to recover from brain overload, and after my return, I moved back into the same apartment building. Herveat sold the building, and and the new owners decided to do a bit of remodeling, starting with the bathroom of my old apartment. The cast iron tub sat in the hallway for a week, so I asked the landlord what he was going to do with it. He told me if I wanted it, to haul it away and it was mine. I immediately called a couple friends, and we put the tub into the back of my F150, where it provided traction weight for the winter. Everybody joked about Lisa and her bathtub-drive truck!"That spring, I took the tub home, and it got stored upside down, on a pallet behind a shed, in my mom's yard in Wisconsin, for the next 20 years. Fast forward to 2003, when I had a bunch of my grandparents' furniture shipped up to me here in Alaska. My mom wanted the space back, so she drove that tub down to Illinois, where it got added to the shipment going north. When I got running water in 2004 (which was a big deal after 15 years in a dry cabin about five miles outside Fairbanks), that bathtub was one of the first things that got hooked up. I may be thousands of miles away, but I think of Houghton and Tech every day when I look at my antique bathtub.Other memories I have from that photo:*Lakeview Lounge is where I learned to play Pong, the only video game I've ever been good at!. The Lakeview is also where the rock band Head East went for a drink after they did a concert in the ice arena. When the bar closed, a friend brought most of the band and their road crew over to my place because it was only half a block away and he knew I wouldn't mind. The party continued until morning.*I bought a large basket-style clothes hamper real cheap at Newberry's going-out-of-business sale. I cut out the bottom, attached suspenders to the top so I could wear it, turned the lid into a hat, and dressed up as a Basket Case for Halloween that year. Lots of fun, but not so good when it came time to get rid of used beer.*I see the parking deck is there, but I don't see the Golden Arches. When the McDonalds first opened, folks were very confused about needing to go onto the parking deck in order to get to the drive-thru. McDonalds later put up a small Golden Arches sign at the entrance of the deck indicating the way to the drive-up window.-- Lisa SporlederWhen I was two quarters away from the Mining Engineering degree I started in '78, I changed majors. I got my B.S. in Scientific and Technical Communications in '87 "
5/5/2008 4:00:29 PM by Anonymous
• Lakeview Lounge was ahead of its time ---It was Green" in the 70's-early 80's recycling glass juice jugs to use instead of pitchers serve of beer …was more of a local hangout but would serve anybody…at least I don't recall anyone ever being carded there… -- Laura M. Nagel"
5/5/2008 4:01:13 PM by Anonymous
• If memory serves me right, and looking at the cars, that picture was taken not too long after the parking deck was still considered “new”! Newberry’s was a step up in quality from Woolworth’s, and these were both long before we ever heard of Pamida or Wal-Mart. The Lakeview Lounge was a bar and pool table in the front, and two pool tables and tables in the back. Long before they ever thought of dancing on a regular basis, since it was mostly a locals bar, and not really a student hang out, from what I remember. Juke box and Pabst on tap. The food selection consisted of chips, plain or BBQ. They had pickled eggs for awhile, but no where near the quality of the B and B. Kukkonen’s on the corner was where you went to buy your Hallmark cards and gifts. Very nice family from Hancock. Of course, in Houghton/Hancock, they are all good people! Swift’s hardware; Paul and Betty Swift were 2 great people as well. We sat next to them at the hockey games at Dee Stadium. Great MTU supporters and a wonderful family as well. -- Paul Meese
5/5/2008 4:01:58 PM by Anonymous
• Not only did I graduate from MTU (1973), but I grew up in Houghton. I have fond memories of having a Coke at the little lunch counter in Newberry's. It was a pretty big deal back then. I'm guessing that was back in the very early '60's. -- Jill (Stevens/Jury) Somrock, MTU class of 1973
5/5/2008 4:02:33 PM by Anonymous
• Having lived in Houghton from 1971 until 1987, I was there when this photo of Shelden Avenue was taken. Any blanks you need filled in? I remember Kukkonen’s drive through card shop in particular. I was the first to use the drive in feature on a late, icy Thanksgiving night in 1976. I turned down Pewabic Street from Montezuma intending to head back on Shelden. As soon as I started going down hill I knew I was in trouble. The road was very slippery with the brakes having no effect at all. This was before the parking deck was built behind the downtown stores (parking deck sign shown in the picture) and Lakeshore drive existed. If I didn’t make the turn onto Shelden, I figured I would accelerate down Pewabic and into the Portage. It was too slippery to make the turn and I ended up in the window of the card shop. This killed my old Rambler and the card shop window. I was a small participant in the history of Shelden Avenue. -- Ken Williams, MTU Class of ‘75
5/5/2008 4:03:37 PM by Anonymous
• Looking at the North side of Houghton Ave in a westerly direction. I never saw SNOWSHOES in a hardware store before I went in there.Actually never saw snowshoes before. Never went in the Lakeview, but I think it was a decent place for drinks and dinner. Legal drinking age was 18 then. -- Michael Binder, MTU class of 1975
5/5/2008 4:04:24 PM by Anonymous
• Reminded me of one experience I had there in 1963. I had received $20.00 in the mail from my parents as a birthday gift while attending Michigan Tech and decided to splurge". I went to the Army Surplus store near the end of Shelden Avenue and bought a pair of Michigan snow shoes .... for $19.95. I imagine the price has gone up quite a lot since then! I still have them, but have not found much use of them now that I live in Kentucky. -- Wayne Trombley, MTU BSME '67"
5/5/2008 4:05:25 PM by Anonymous
• I can vividly remember going into Swift's True Value Hardware and purchasing my first snow scoop. That was during the winter of 1968. I still have it and use it every winter here! I guess the manufacturer hadn't heard of the planned obsolescence" concept in those days. -- Doug Davies MTU class of 1969"
5/5/2008 4:06:04 PM by Anonymous
• [Swift Hardware] It was the place to get an industrial broom with a 1 1?4” handle. Add some tape to the handle, trim it up, and lots of duct tape……You then had an indestructible broomball broom that would snap other like match sticks. It was also longer than most brooms so playing defense with it gave you tremendous reach and the weight gave you a heavy shot that had the power of an illegal slap shot. Mine lasted all the years I was at Tech and finally went to the trash when moving out of my first house. -- Ricky A. DeVisch, P.E.
5/5/2008 4:06:48 PM by Anonymous
• Of the two people holding telephones, the one on the right looks like my 1981-1982 resident assistant (RA), Brian Wines. I lived in East Coed Hall, near the west end of 2nd floor. I think he started at MTU in 1980, but it may have been 1979. He roomed with Jeff Sympson the year he was my RA. -- Chuck Lemont, MTU class of 1986
5/5/2008 4:08:05 PM by Anonymous
• The guy holding the phone in his right hand is Steve Bailo and the guy sitting in the lower right corner of the picture is Steve Savistanio. Both are fraternity brothers of mine from Phi Kappa Tau. Both were very active on campus as well as at the fraternity. I've not heard much from either of them recently, I hope they are doing well. -- Tom Fedorka, BSME, MTU Class of 1984
5/5/2008 4:09:01 PM by Anonymous
• I just got an email back from Steve Bailo - it is he in the picture!-- Cynthia Protas Hodges
5/5/2008 4:09:42 PM by Anonymous
• Upper row (L to R): Brian Hoag, woman?, Tom ?, Werner ?Lower row (L to R): Mark Kellogg (?), Steve Bailo, Brian Wines(?), Stefano Savastano
5/5/2008 4:10:08 PM by Anonymous
• The four guys with the painted chests were not from Delta Sigma Phi, but St. Albert the Great. We did a marching routine to the Colonel Boogie Whistle March from the movie Bridge on the River Kwai. We are from left to right Greg Switek, Bill Baun, Erik Sedenik, and Pete Lawes. You may want to check the spelling of those names since it has been about 35 years since I have seen any of those guys. It was a great skit, and we brought the house down with laughter. We never rehearsed the skit without breaking into laughter ourselves. As we marched we moved our bellies in and out to simulate the whistling, and walked with our knees together since that was where the crotches of the pants were. Note that the crotch at the knees was not in style at that time. -- Greg Switek, MTU Class of 1972
5/5/2008 4:13:57 PM by Anonymous
• One correction to my previous comment - it's likely that the terra cotta ornamentation actually dates to the original Byron Pierce design (1888) for the First National Bank building. - Jeremiah Mason
5/5/2008 9:06:31 AM by Anonymous
• A2/C Donald Stevanus, of the 665th A.C.&W. Squadron, Calumet snapped this picture of the fire which consumed the factory of the Blight Fuse Company in Eagle River Wednesday afternoon. Airman Stevanus was on his way to Eagle River and had his 35mm camera with him which enabled him to get 14 shots including this one. John Kezele, chief of the Ahmeek Fire Department, is fireman at left. Full line valve is encompassed by flames near ground surface in front of Kezele. [Daily Mining Gazette article Friday, May 3, 1957.]
5/5/2010 9:19:44 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Electric park was 1/2 way between Calumet and Hancock. It is about 2 miles east of Paradise and one mile off the highway. My dad used to talk about it all the time. We used to hunt rabbits near the old pavilion and street car tracks.Bob Meyers
5/6/2008 11:20:05 PM by Anonymous
• The Jeep belonged to me. The event was quite an experance. In the photo I am on the right helping to direct the car and Jack Lockwood is in the drivers seat. The Tech Adm wasnt too happy regarding the event. Then, Dean Partlow ( sp ), wanted to expell me for good but then put me on probation for a long period. -- Guenther Frankenstein, MTU Class of 1954
5/6/2008 2:53:31 PM by Anonymous
• I am certain the third man from the left is NOT Swaby Lawton (my grandfather). For one thing, Swaby was bald, and there is no resemblance of facial features. However, I am 99% certain the building in the background is Charles D. Lawton I residence in Lawton, MI (see attached photo from our family collection). The house is no longer standing. I don't recognize anyone in the photo, including the person on the far right which was thought to be Charles L. Lawton, but I don't have too many photo's of him to compare. -- Charles D. Lawton III

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5/6/2012 9:05:36 PM by Anonymous
• Building in rear...ice house
5/7/2008 10:48:53 PM by Anonymous
• Date would have been around 1900. This is my grandfather, Louis Chester Pearce. He came to the Copper Country on a barge into Torch Lake at age 3, graduated from Lake Linden High School. He founded the Lake Linden Hardware where Bill Kallio and Bob Chop now have their Insurance business. I believe it was founded by them in 1886 (as it says on the building) because, after the Lake Linden fire the town needed hardware and they were able to provide the stuff. He was one of the early Mich Tech graduates in mining engineering. He married Jessie Irene Otto from Charlotte, MI, my grandmother, in 1904 and they lived for a time in Mexico where he was a mining engineer and my grandmother rode a horse she called Blanca". They had a dirt floor house there. Chester hired Finnish log smiths to build the "Old Man's Home" and the ice rink shack in Lake Linden, as well as his house in Bootjack. He was brother to Annie Pearce, Elsie Pearce Baccus,(grandmother to Bonnie, Barb, Peg, Bill, Mary Kay and Dick Baccus) Lucian Pearce (married to Gail (who lived in the brick victorian behind the hardware). He is father to Celia Pearce, my mother. My mother's and L.Chester's graduation pictures are still hanging with their classes in Lake Linden High School. My brother is named Chester Pearce Olson for him. Anyone wanting to know more can contact me Betsy Olson West at betsy.west@srz.com. "
5/7/2008 11:43:30 AM by Anonymous
• This photo looks like a clearer version of Image #:MS003-021-008. According to the other photo, this is the 1st C&H stamp mill.
5/7/2009 3:00:30 PM by Anonymous
• Actually of the Robbins/West Vein stamp mill, in obvious decay. Photo looking south, adit and shaft are behind camera.
5/7/2010 11:45:49 AM by Anonymous
• This is amazing - I now teach geology and it is exciting to see such phenomena in our own backyard.
5/8/2009 7:57:07 PM by Anonymous
• This is the original artistic component of the covers of the first two editions of Lauri Leskinen's book titled 4000 Thousand Years of Copper Country History." This is one of three versions of the publication and the artwork itself was used internally in the last edition published in 1980. All are copyrighted and I will be using this art again in my etensive on-going revision of the book.Dan Leskinen "
5/9/2008 3:38:11 PM by Anonymous
• This is a photo if my grandfather, George Howard Harvey, and his horse, Doc, at Eagle Harbor drawing water. -- Susan Harvey Adams
5/9/2009 6:07:37 AM by Anonymous
• this is a picture of my great-great grandmother too
5/9/2010 9:08:19 PM by Anonymous
Name:Kevin Keller
MTU Class of:
hey! this is cute!
6/1/2010 2:05:15 PM by Anonymous
• Found an intact version of this photo. Added to this record as: ACC-03-158D-6-1-04-01-04. [June 10, 2009]
6/10/2009 11:04:39 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Found an intact version of this photo. It has been added to this record as: ACC-03-158D-6-1-04-01-04 [June 10, 1009]
6/10/2009 11:06:13 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Ran across another copy of this photo that may be of better quality. Added to this record as: ACC-03-158D-6-1-04-01-09. [June 10, 2009]
6/10/2009 1:09:43 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Located another version of this image without the deterioration shown in image MTU Neg. 03414. It has been added to this record as: ACC-03-058D-6-1-04-01-37. [June 11, 2009]
6/11/2009 2:23:12 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• I don't think these are the kinds of barrels referred to in barrel works." These are almost definitely hoisting kibbles used to lift material (rock, tools, chunks of copper, men, etc.) from the bottom of the mine to the surface. The attachment of the chains is the indication that they were used for hoisting and not for transporting copper."
6/11/2009 2:27:40 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this image is of a bank building in Laurium, not Lake Linden
6/11/2009 8:17:37 PM by Anonymous
• This is a picture of the american legion hall alfred erickson post # 186
6/11/2011 8:49:58 PM by Anonymous
• If you look closely, it's obvious that both sets of doors open outward. Look up at the transom, behind the closer mechanism for the outer doors. There was a small foyer between the two sets of doors.
6/11/2012 6:00:49 PM by Anonymous
• Maybe Tech's mascot should have been the Bulls"!"
6/11/2015 2:37:21 PM by Anonymous
• Daniel D. Brockway --- what does the D" stand for?"
6/12/2008 11:28:21 AM by Anonymous
• Another version for this photo from the Book Art Work of the Lake Superior Region added to this record as: F572-S9-A7-pt 1-1 [June 12, 2009]
6/12/2009 10:34:17 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This is a picture of my husband's great-grandfather, we have several photos and memorabilia of him and his family. He was a well known and very involved person. Andrew Johnson A Man of Integrity and Character Data Compiled by Doris Johnson in November – December 2005The Johnson family tree in America started in 1869 when at the age of 18 years Antti Wanhatlo came from Finland by sailing vessel. He came alone, and was probably one of the first Finnish immigrants to land in Hancock, Michigan. This according to historian A. L. Sawyer as reported in 1911, in a volume on “A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan.” Arriving here a stranger with no knowledge of the English language, he began life with no wealth other than his strong hands and sharp mind. At that time he boarded in Ripley, though he had endeavored to find a home where English would be spoken so that he might learn that language, but there was a better opportunity to board in a French home, so instead of learning English he found himself learning French! As a name change was symbolic of a new start in a new land, Antti adopted his new name Andrew Johnson.Andrew went to work as a laborer for the Mineral Range Railroad, then for the Lake Superior Smelter. Industrious, temperate, and prudent, he saved every penny possible. He was also intensely interested in the lumber business and in 1876 bought a team of horses and began his business and lumberman career. In 1876, he also bought a lumber tract and began his pioneering life supplying lumber for mines. This industry grew into the Johnson Family Lumber Company more known a.k.a. Johnson Brothers Lumber, supplying lumber for mining, blasting supplies and equipment to copper mining firms. The family was known far and wide for their careful and successful business and employed a crew of over 200. It is said that Andrew and Quincy Mining Company were intimate friends. This would not be the only pathway for Andrew, opportunities unfolded and he put his talents into many areas, his achievements in farming lead him to take a prominent part in investing and building a mill in Salo. He held the office of President of the Finnish Farmers Milling Company until the day of his death. A strong belief in his religious faith he took and active interest in the affairs of the Lutheran Synod church, he became President of Finnish Lutheran church more know as the Andrew Johnson Church in its day. Today it is known as the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church located on Quincy Street in Hancock, Michigan. Andrew’s love for fine art and music prompted him and his daughter Sofia Kristina Johnson whom was the church organist to donate one of the finest pipe organs to the church on Reservation Street. This organ is now part of the Gloria Dei Pipe Organ. Andrew also became a lay delegate at the founding of the Sumoi Lutheran Synod in 1890, a year later on the exploratory committee he helped to start Suomi College, For the first 10 years ending in 1907, he led the college board of directors. However, his devotion by no means stopped there as he donated substantial sums of money for the support of this well known institution, known today as Finlandia University. Andrew's grandchildren Martha Johnson Fischer (whom was at one time a professor at Sumoi), and Fritz Johnson and wife Phyliss have also donated substantial sums of money over the years. In civic and other public affairs, Andrew was active as he served 17 years as a Highway Commissioner of Franklin Township. He was also treasurer of the district school funds for the township for a number of years. He was also director of the Finnish Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Calumet and president and active member of the Finnish Workingmen’s Aid Society. -- Doris Johnson

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6/12/2009 11:40:07 PM by Anonymous


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6/12/2009 11:43:45 PM by Anonymous
• 1st wife of Andrew Johnson

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6/12/2009 11:48:12 PM by Anonymous
• This is not #6, it is the steel shaft/rockhouse built in 1908 over shaft #2.
6/13/2007 5:27:07 AM by cpomazal
• The house (which is till there) was once home to Charles Briggs for whom the Charles Briggs elementary school was named (This school building is also still extant in Laurium.).
6/13/2016 10:39:17 AM by Anonymous
• How is the monette name labeled with this picture ? [Note:Local historian Clarence Monette of Lake Linden donated these photographs to the MTU Archives. -- Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist]
6/14/2008 11:11:31 AM by moonnetter1968
• This church was originally located near the famous Cliff Mine (Clifton) and moved here after all operations at the Cliff Mine was abandoned.
6/14/2016 12:25:09 PM by Anonymous
• how when the points have to be a inch long
6/15/2011 5:38:36 PM by Anonymous
• This is probably looking west on Bridge St, based on the distance to the water tower, it was right at the bridge
6/16/2008 1:56:01 PM by Anonymous
• Actually, I think this maybe the Robbins Mine with Cliff way in the background
6/16/2009 5:42:58 PM by yooper557
• Don't you suppose this is a J. Harry photo, rather than J.T.? I think maybe too late for JT?
6/17/2011 4:40:34 PM by pemartin
• The actual name of the gentleman on the right is Donald Laurie" from Laurium, Michigan."
6/18/2008 9:58:16 PM by Anonymous
Name:Richard A. Pagel
MTU Class of:
I was stationed at Calumet AFS from 3/58 to 4/59, and worked in the Radio Shack. Have many great memories. Was awarded the Airman of the Month for one month. The area is great for living, even in the Winters. I do remember having to keep my 1951 Ford Coupe in heated storage in town for just $15 dollars a month. Question: Is Calumet still an active AFS? Live in Iowa now, and would like to visit sometime.
6/19/2010 3:57:56 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this picture was taken from the front yard of the Agent's house.
6/19/2011 6:48:35 PM by Anonymous
Name:Doug Karttunen
MTU Class of:1969
I am unaware of there ever being a Green Lumber Co. in Ontonagon. However, there was a Greenwood Lumber Compnay that operated a sawmill there from 1908 until the mid 1920s, and continued to run its lumber camps west of Ontonagon until the mid 1930s to supply wood the Ontongagon Fibre Company pulp mill. This looks to me to be one of the Greenwood Lumber Company camps that was located on the Iron River near Silver City. It was their last camp to operate. I am attaching another image of that camp when it was later being used as a bible and boyscout camp after the end of the Greenwood's logging operations, for comparison.

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6/19/2012 3:00:43 PM by Anonymous
Name:Doug Karttunen
MTU Class of:1969
Same comment as I made for Image #: MS042-058-999-W757-03
6/19/2012 3:03:14 PM by Anonymous
Name:Doug Karttunen
MTU Class of:1969
Incidentally, to add to my prior comment, the Greenwood Lumber Company Locomotive was destroyed in September 1925 in a accident at Green (midway between Silver City and Ontonagon) when several loose Daimaond Lumber Company railcars loaded with logs, racing down-grade from Tolfree, ran into it. A photo of the aftermath is attached. It may very well be the same locomotive pictured here.

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6/19/2012 3:13:03 PM by Anonymous
Name:Doug
MTU Class of:Karttunen
These are the remains of Ontonagon after the big fire that destroyed the town in August 1896.
6/19/2012 3:20:47 PM by Anonymous
• Built 1899. Note: temporary stability struts on corners below clock. The Flagpole destabilized the whole tower. The pole was later (5/1919) moved to the roof peak. The steeple was removed later still. Then the bell chamber was shortened and the bell itself lowered about 3 feet. Finally, stability was achieved and remains today. From 4 Jun 1943 to 2001 there was an air-raid siren on the flat tower top.
6/19/2014 10:36:47 PM by Anonymous
• This image is printed in reverse. The McMahon house was moved to this location (Franklin) from the Arcadian mine. The house on the right with the gambrol roof also still exists and is owned by Mike Gemigniani.

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6/2/2007 6:58:40 AM by Anonymous
• This is not the Quincy Stamp Mill.
6/2/2007 7:05:15 AM by Anonymous
• The reference to pg. 353 of Bowen's Lore of the Lakes" should read "Shipwrecks of the Lakes"."
6/2/2007 7:50:38 AM by Anonymous
• Detail A shows Limerick streetcar station.
6/2/2009 8:25:49 AM by Anonymous
• Detail A shows Limerick streetcar station.
6/2/2009 8:25:58 AM by Anonymous
• I was on the Varsity Golf Team from 1965-1968 and our Coach was John MacInnes. I have great memories of traveling around the state in a Plymouth station wagon with a State of Michigan logo on the side. We would load it up with 5 golfers and the coach with all of our clubs and luggage and hit the road for a week at a time each taking our time at the wheel.There was a lot of time to talk on these trip and Coach MacInnes would talk about his time as a goalie and was called up to the NHL during the Stanley Cup. He missed the train and never got to play, as his team, (Red Wings?) were eliminated. The season was short so we missed a lot of classes in the spring team. There was no fall golf.We had a winning team throughout the years and in 1967 won the NIC with myself, Andy Anderson, Bob Kieber, Bill Peterson, Dave Confrey(Varsity Hockey,) and Dick Sieradzki(Varsity Hockey).Our best trips were to the lower to play the Big Ten schools and west to Minnesota.I would like to see the sport brought back and have fund raisers during the annual reunions.-Peter Balzola, 1968
6/20/2012 2:57:38 PM by Anonymous
• Okay, I found my February 1980 Michigan Tech Lode Winter Carnival Pictorial (below). And I pulled up the Winter Carnival Queen Candidates to refresh my memory.From left to right, I’m quite sure that is Terry Stuart who was a Junior in Mechanical Engineering, I think that is Mary Luepnitz, a freshman in EE – really not sure on that one. The next is most likely Sue Arsenault, a senior in Technical Communications, myself—a freshman in Technical Communications. Then Carol Hoot, a freshman in business administration and my roommate, and I have no idea who is on the far right. I can’t match her up to any photo…-Ellen Loughrin
6/20/2012 3:00:40 PM by Anonymous
• Sharon Fabbro and Gail Raymond were wives of MTU hockey players.
6/21/2008 12:41:19 PM by Anonymous
• In 1964 on episode #196 of the GE College Bowl, Ohio Wesleyan Univ. defeated MTU 170-145. That was OWU's fourth consecutive victory. OWU next defeated Alfred Univ. and retired undefeated that year.-Art Wildblood, 1959
6/22/2012 4:30:36 PM by Anonymous
• This picture is of the current (2008) house of Sigma Phi Epsilon
6/23/2008 10:29:32 PM by Anonymous
• This appears to be Tamarack #2, with #1 in the background.
6/23/2011 1:02:57 PM by Anonymous
• I think the building is probably the Marta bakery.
6/23/2011 2:16:41 PM by Anonymous
• Judging by the shape of the shafthouse and the dip of the shaft I think it may be the Baltic. I believe #3 was all steel.
6/23/2011 2:59:18 PM by Anonymous
• I believe the pic on bottom right is of me,and my sister. Our family lived there during that time.
6/23/2014 1:17:36 AM by Anonymous
• A map made by the Arctic Coal Company showing the mine entries and test pits of the various companies working at Green Harbor on Spitsbergen. The Arctic Coal Company contested that all other companies in this area were trespassing on its land and this map was intended as evidence of these transgressions.
6/24/2008 10:22:21 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Plan of the Arctic Coal Company's mine 1 on tract 1 (Advent Bay tract) at its greatest extent before the sale of the property to Norwegian interests.
6/24/2008 10:24:02 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Plan of the Arctic Coal Company's mine 2, tract 1 (Advent Bay) at its largest extent before sale to Norwegian interests. The Arctic Coal Company developed this mine to a preliminary stage to improve the saleability of their property and to enhance their claim over the lands in this area.
6/24/2008 10:26:13 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A geological profile view of coal seam #2 looking south from Advent Bay. The view was the result of extensive geological investigations by the Arctic Coal Company from 1905.
6/24/2008 10:28:17 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Plan of the Arctic Coal Company's dock on Advent Bay. The dock was enhanced and expanded numerous times since its initial design in 1906. Note the piles driven off the end of the dock to expand its size and deepen its berthing area. The company's largest ship, the Kwasind, often touched the ground off this dock.
6/24/2008 10:31:11 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Plan of the location of a new coal stockyard location and infrastructure to accommodate it. The company's extisting stockyard had reached the limit of its storage capacity and a new stockyard was needed to allow the company's production to grow. The new stockyard was never constructed.
6/24/2008 10:33:49 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Plan of Longyear City in 1913. This map is the result of the first detailed mapping efforts of the company in this area, made in 1912 and 1913 (see the Arctic Coal Company USGS maps of this collection).
6/24/2008 10:38:02 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Plan of the Arctic Coal Company's wharfing and warehouse area in 1912. A handwritten note running from the shoreline towards the dock reads Proposed New Aerial Tramway" relates to the company's consideration of a new storage area for coal (also seen on DigArch MS018-Z-09-02) which was never completed."
6/24/2008 10:50:23 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• Topographic map of around 1/7th of the Arctic Coal Company's Tract 1 (Advent Bay). The company's main settlement and mine is visible in Longyear Valley. This map was the result of the first comprehensive mapping exercise by the company on its lands, made in 1912 by USGS surveyors.
6/24/2008 10:53:24 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• One of several maps resulting from a company mapping survey of its lands in 1912 by USGS surveyors. The Arctic Coal Company's main settlement, Longyear City, and main mine, Mine 1 Tract 1, is visible. The map was made in 1912 and features some hand drawn alterations showing changes to the mine and settlement.
6/24/2008 10:55:33 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A geological profile of part of Valley 1, a valley east of Longyear Valley on Advent Bay. This profile resulted from geological survey work performed under Drummond MacGavin in 1912 and 1913.
6/24/2008 10:57:04 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A map showing the Arctic Coal Company's coal test pits east of its main workings in Longyear Valley. The company hired Drummond MacGavin to lead a geological survey of part of its lands in 1912 and 1913.
6/24/2008 10:58:28 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A map of part of the Arctic Coal Company's tract 1 lands, made from a survey in 1912. The map has been altered to show survey areas.
6/24/2008 10:59:43 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A map of Longyear Valley made from survey data of USGS surveyors in 1912. This map represents the first comprehensive map of this area made by the company.
6/24/2008 11:00:56 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• A blueprint of the Arctic Coal Company's No.1 mine, on Tract 2 (Green Harbor). The mine was always small and never profitable. It was constructed to test the quality and nature of the coal in this area and continued as a strategy to hold the company's claim to this area.
6/24/2008 11:03:12 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher
• This map shows the land claims of the 'Arctic Coal Company' and 'Ayer & Longyear.' Claim #1 was purchased by the Arctic Coal Company off the Trondhjem-Spitsbergen Kulkompanie' in 1905 and extended to the south-east that year (see MS031-01-09-01 and MS031-01-09-02 to see maps of their claim.) The other claims were made in the name of Ayer & Longyear, the principle investors in the Arctic Coal Company, in 1905.
6/24/2008 1:15:13 PM by Anonymous
• I remember it well myself. But the Put up a parking lot singer was Joni Mitchel.
6/24/2010 3:36:03 PM by Anonymous
• The beards contestant is Steve Misenheimer ('81).
6/24/2010 9:26:24 AM by ramisenh
• I played on the wheely-go-round on the left edge of the photo each summer between 1966-1972. What memories this simple photo bring back.
6/24/2015 11:01:56 AM by Anonymous
• He was also a 33rd Degree Mason
6/26/2011 1:14:50 PM by Anonymous
• My G-G-Grandfather, J.H. Gatiss, is the author of this map
6/26/2011 3:46:29 AM by UPSURVIVORDUDE
• J.H. Gatiss was my G-G-Grandfather
6/26/2011 3:49:08 AM by UPSURVIVORDUDE
Name:Andrew Conley

This photo was taken by Charles Eshbach. In the picture are his wife and child.
6/27/2014 12:36:15 PM by Anonymous
• At first glance I wanted to agree, however the houses on Church St. are of a T"-shape construction, both on the north and on the south sides of the street. Also, the road-way ( Church St.) is very close to the house fronts, and would be plainly visible in this image ( unless, of course, the road was relocated ). I own one of the houses on the south side of Church St., and from every appearance, there's been no major addition placed on it, it was "T"-shaped from the beginning."
6/27/2016 8:48:15 PM by Anonymous
• From left to right, this is a view from of the C&H Power Plant, Boiler House with its signature double smoke stacks, and the Hecla stamp mill...facing northeast.
6/28/2012 2:06:40 PM by mepryb2
Name:Martin Hogan

Referring to a book titled Copper Country-God's Country" by Thomas Avery & Avery Color Studios, 1973, Library of Congress Card #73-76429. On page 62, there is a photo captioned "Company houses standing empty at Painesdale, south of Houghton on M-26". The photo in this book does show the same small piece of clapboarding missing between the first and second stories, in the middle.I only add this because the description on this page has the words "unknown", and it may be already known where this house was."
6/3/2009 11:26:32 PM by Anonymous
• They are in front of the old armory building which was where the Carnegie Museum (formerly library) is now. That is the fire hall in the background.
6/3/2012 2:30:47 PM by jcurtis310
• circa 1938
6/3/2014 10:02:55 AM by Yooper_Ken
• circa 1936
6/3/2014 10:05:31 AM by Yooper_Ken
• Nice Site!
6/30/2008 3:54:33 AM by Anonymous
• This building was officially dedicated as the Civil Engineering - Geological Engineering Building" on November 22, 1957, not long after its construction. It has been generally known as the Civil-Geology Building and the Civ-Eng Building at different times. On July 17, 1992, it was officially renamed "Grover C. Dillman Hall" in honor of Dillman, the president of Michigan Tech from 1935-1956."
6/30/2008 7:45:58 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This building was officially dedicated as the Civil Engineering - Geological Engineering Building" on November 22, 1957, not long after its construction. It has been generally known as the Civil-Geology Building and the Civ-Eng Building at different times. On July 17, 1992, it was officially renamed "Grover C. Dillman Hall" in honor of Dillman, the president of Michigan Tech from 1935-1956."
6/30/2008 7:46:12 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This building was officially dedicated as the Civil Engineering - Geological Engineering Building" on November 22, 1957, not long after its construction. It has been generally known as the Civil-Geology Building and the Civ-Eng Building at different times. On July 17, 1992, it was officially renamed "Grover C. Dillman Hall" in honor of Dillman, the president of Michigan Tech from 1935-1956."
6/30/2008 7:46:26 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
Name:Robert Lawrence
MTU Class of:1997
Just read about this ship in a book about the Edmund Fitzgerald. It wrecked along the shore about 5 miles from Copper Harbor. Crew was fortunate to be rescued before exposure overtook them. Vessel was salvaged, used in WWI, but sadly ended up sinking in a storm a few miles offshore from Muskegon.
6/30/2016 7:55:44 AM by Anonymous
Name:Rev. John C. Huhtala, Sr.
MTU Class of:
This is my father.
6/5/2010 5:16:43 PM by Anonymous
Name:BOB CARAWAN

I was at Calumet from 11/60 till 5/63. I was in Radar Maint. Was at OKINO 623 ACW Det4 (REMOTE) Okinawa before. Only the FPS20 and FPS6 were on site. Later the FPS26. I had a great time while there. Many good times at the White House during the centennial" year (1961). I have been back to the U.P. almost every year as I married a girl from Lake Linden (home of the 4th of July Parade). I have stayed in touch with some of the guys these past 50 or so years. Bill Miller (best man at my wedding) Bob Lear (still in the Calumet area) Hank Collins; AND Ted Ruest. I have also been to 3 of the 665 reunions held over the years. lots of fun talking to guys that were ther over the years."
6/5/2014 2:20:13 PM by Anonymous
• this is the #2 Hoist house, not Shafthouse
6/6/2008 10:06:46 AM by Anonymous
• This is on Quincy Street in Hancock, near the corner of Ryan Street. The school in the background is St. Joseph's Catholic School; the church on the right in the background is St. Joseph's Catholic Church, later known as St. Joseph-St. Patrick, and now home to Finlandia University's Finnish American Heritage Center. - Jeremiah Mason
6/6/2008 3:45:32 PM by Anonymous
• This is a photo of Central, not Copper Harbor. You can tell by the school up on the hill.
6/6/2010 4:02:57 PM by Anonymous
• My grandparents lived in Mohawk, MI at the turn of the century. They were married in 1909. Would this have been the only Catholic church available to them at that time?
6/7/2008 12:35:16 PM by Anonymous
Name:Victoria Portfleet
MTU Class of:1999
This is the No. 3 shafthouse for the Adventure Mine in Greenland. All that remains today is the stone foundation walls which are approximately 12' tall. The No. 3 shaft is 1300' deep and runs on a 45 degree angle.
6/7/2009 3:49:22 PM by Anonymous
• This is a diagram of the Wolverine and Mohawk Mills, in Gay.
6/8/2011 7:02:36 AM by Anonymous
• This is actually the Adventure #1 shaft.
6/8/2011 7:03:00 AM by Anonymous
• Actually, I'm pretty sure this is part of the Winona Mine
6/8/2011 9:12:37 AM by Anonymous
• This is a shaft of the Calumet & Hecla mine
6/8/2011 9:15:23 AM by Anonymous
• This is the very top of the steam stamp. The upright shaft near the bottom of the machine is the actual rod that would reciprocate up and down. Below this floor would be the business end" of the stamp, i.e., at the bottom of that rod or shaft would be a large and heavy "stamp shoe" which would set in an angled "mortar box." The up and down motion of the stamp on broken rock in the mortar box would cause it to be crushed to a smaller size."
6/9/2006 8:20:34 AM by Anonymous
• Arson is suspected in a fire that destroyed three buildings in Calumet's downtown national historic landmark district early Sunday morning.According to the Calumet Fire Chief Bernard Shute, a $2,000 reward was posted this morning for information concerning the blaze that destroyed the vacant Martinmaki building and the Williams Parts and Supply building - a former Bosch Brewery building - at Pine and Fifth Streets in Calumet.A housed owned by George Craze next to the Martinmaki building also was destroyed, accordong to fire officials. The former Bosch building was owned by Jerry DeMott.The fire was discovered at the Martinmaki building at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday by a bartender at nearby Sharon's Bar, according to Shute.It spread to the Craze house, then swept across Fifth Street, iginiting the Williams building, Shute said.While fighting the blaze, a Calumet Township bucket truck toppled into the vacant J. W. Isakson building owned by Harold Tikkanen and located next to Sharon's Bar, causing some damage to the exterior of the building. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - July 24, 1989]
6/9/2008 2:15:47 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Fifty foot flames tore through an upscale Portage Township restaurant late Saturday, reducing the popular seafood eatery to rubble. By the time firefighters arrived at 10:30 p.m., flames fully engulfed Steamer's Grill, located 6 miles south of Houghton just off U. S. 41.The restaurant, previously known as the Summer Place, had large windows that offered diners a panoramic view of Portage Lake and surroundings. Steamer's was a private residence until 1975, when Ken and Eve Nelson bought the home and turned it into a restaurant. Three owners later, the Cortrights took over. The Cortrights also own the Library Restaurant and Brew Pub in Houghton. A fire destroyed the restaurant in 1995. It has since been rebuilt.[Daily Mining Gazette Article - March 11, 2002]
6/9/2008 2:24:50 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• My husband was stationed there from 1976-80. He then went to the Phillapines and the kids and I stayed on the base in base housing. It was a very close knit family where officers and enlisted were very close. That whole area up there was great for fishing and raising kids. It is one of the bases I really loved.
6/9/2015 12:41:53 PM by Anonymous
• Isn't this clearly marked by Wilse?PEMartin
7/1/2008 12:58:15 PM by Anonymous
• 1912 drawing of Arctic Coal Company Mine No. 1. Image depicts Main Entry, corresponding return airway, numerous gates and crosscuts, as well as worked Longwall section and proposed Room & Pillar design. Back end of Main Entry (left side of image) remains idled by fault-line, which is now trending to the southeast. This fault eventually pinches off the southern coal body. Large polygon on the south end (lower half of image) represents worked Longwall area. Dashed lines within this polygon depict access tunnels (gates) preserved with aid of packwalls and modest timbering. Empty space within polygon represents mined coal. The array of dashed lines at the north end (top half of image) represent incoming mine manager Scott Turner's proposed Room & Pillar design. Turner was designing an experiment" where the two mining methods could be simultaneously tested on productivity and efficiency. This image represents the initial stages of said experiment. "
7/1/2008 4:07:33 PM by scdepasq
• Image is a continuation of 1912 map for Arctic Coal Company Mine No. 1. Mine manager Scott Turner has proceeded forward with the development of his North side Room & Pillar design (top-right of image). Additional development of this North side is depicted through increased tunneling at the northwest end of the mine (top-left). Longwall mining continues on the South end of mine (bottom half). Shaded areas represent worked Longwall sections for that year. Southern gates have been driven further south in an effort to delineate the trajectory of the fault-line as well as to block-out new Longwall sections. Gate lengths reflect contact with this NW/SE trending fault-line. Shaded polygon at left is constrained by this same fault. The back end of the Main Entry (left side of image) has been driven approx. 200' in an effort to relocate the coal seam, which has disappeared due to faulting. This image reflects some of the limitations that the Arctic Coal Company was now realizing within their flagship mine.
7/1/2008 4:28:55 PM by scdepasq
• That is my Grandfather, Gilbert Neph, and father, Ronald Neph and Uncle Gerald Neph.
7/1/2010 12:33:26 AM by Anonymous
• the man on the right is my grandfather. Thank you Michigan Tech Archives for this picture! I had not seen it before. Very cool!
7/1/2010 8:10:31 AM by colleen carroll
• I to have a different photo of this ship taken from aft looking forward of the main deck, showing cars buried in snow and one auto hanging over the port side. My father, Alfonse Lewy, a surfman was stationed and the eagle harbor CG life saving station at this time and was involved in the rescue of the crew as well. -- David Lewy
7/1/2011 12:56:06 PM by Anonymous
Name:Bob Schenkel
MTU Class of:
I made the Anonymous entry on 8/7/2011 10:41:31 PM... Radar Maintenance AFSC (30352) trained at Keesler AFB, Miss. I was working the DMCC (Data Maintenance Control Center) in the Radar Operations Blockhouse when this occurred. DMCC was the interface between Calumet AFS Radar Operations & K.I. Sawyer NORAD. Our search radar data was sent to both K.I. Sawyer & Duluth NORAD Sectors via transmission lines. In addition, Calumet AFS also hosted simulated search radar data using a 70 MM. film device that was sent over separate transmission lines to both NORAD Sectors. The NORAD Sector Centers they then reported to NORAD in Colorado.The search radar at Calumet AFS was the AN/FPS-64 that used leading edge solid state digital processing techniques & data processors and also sophisticated transmitter techniques using both radar transmitters fired at different times on different frequencies. The controls for this search radar was located in Radar Operations. Part of my responsibilities also included monitoring & operating the FPS-64 Console. One weekday morning in the early '60s we had civilians in Radar Ops. from a DC think tank" evaluating the FPS-64 Search Radar. At the same time we also had a simulated mission occurring, this search radar data sent to both NORAD Sectors. A member of the "think tank" operating the console made a HUGE mistake by mixing & sending the "live air" data with the simulated data to both NORAD Sectors. I observed this taking place and told the civilian of his mistake he told me to F___ OFF.We (DMCC) also maintain both actual and simulated alert status on a "big illuminated board" in Radar Ops. We then received DEFCON alert status from K.I. thru authenticated voice transmission raising the DEFCON Alert StatusI called the C & E Officer and requested him to come to Radar Operations immediately which he did. The USAF Captain had the civilians escorted out of the building and told me to straighten things out which was quickly resolved by depressing on button. I then notified NORAD at K.I. Sawyer of the civilian human error that had occurred and that simulated search radar had been mixed in with “live air” data. And that the problem was resolved.NORAD at K.I. Sawyer was aware of & running the simulated mission, however they overlooked/ignored this the error. Duluth NORAD Sector was not aware of the simulated mission running at Calumet AFS and therefore concluded the simulated data was “live air” data and escalated the ALERT CONDITION from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 2 or 3 and in addition scrambled USAF Fighter Jets and alerted the air-to- ground missile squadron. The USAF Fighter Jets were unable the simulated targets. CONUS NORAD escalated Alert Levels and recalling General Curtis Le May from his off-premise lunch back to the Pentagon.Later in the day the Calumet AFS Commander received a phone call from General Curtis LeMay, the Chief of Staff of the USAF. The site commander was replaced shortly thereafter.My personnel reflections: This point in time in our collective history was the most dangerous time in world history. With nuclear arsenals of both the United States & the USSR able to destroy the world a few times over and the “hair trigger” both sides maintained the possibility of a all out nuclear war was real. Movies & books in that era included “ Fail Safe” & ‘Dr. Strangelove” that had as a centerpiece such as nuclear catastrophic event.Prior to this event, at the site commanders request a Major in the USAF, I brief him on radar operations and the functions & capabilities of each type of radar and other related hardware. In all fairness to him he did have the proper training or electronic background to fully understand what we were doing. However, he was the Commander and fully responsible for all activity, conduct & operation of Calumet AFS. "
7/10/2012 7:43:08 AM by Anonymous
• From: Bob SchenkelI just made an entry to the Calumet Air Force Station portion of your web site.I did make an error on the last paragraph by omitting the word not" in the following paragraph. Below is the paragraph, I have included the word "not" in all CAPS in its proper location for identification. Please do use CAPS when you make the correction.Thank you & I do apologize for my error.Bob Schenkel Prior to this event, at the site commanders request a Major in the USAF, I brief him on radar operations and the functions & capabilities of each type of radar and other related hardware. In all fairness to him he did NOT have the proper training or electronic background to fully understand what we were doing. However, he was the Commander and fully responsible for all activity, conduct & operation of Calumet AFS. "
7/10/2012 8:10:11 AM by Anonymous
Name:Don Johnson
MTU Class of:
I was stationed at Calumet AFS from May, 1954 to February, 1956, when I PCS'd to Armstrong, Ontario. The site was much smaller then, about half the size of the photo. One I recall was a flight of B-47s passing over the base on a mission and one of the 47s had an engine turbine disintegrate while still in or ground clutter. An observer had no ejection site and was found in the wreckage, I think the other three survived.
7/12/2012 12:05:52 PM by Anonymous
• If this picture was taken in 1954 it is No. 6 Osceola rockhouse instead of Centennial No 6
7/13/2007 9:31:43 PM by 771936
• Appears to be along Mine Street looking SouthThe Powerhouse in the MiddleJust to the upper right of it, the C&H Warehouse No.1And just to the upper left I believe is the C&H Library (bright roof)
7/14/2006 9:36:33 AM by Anonymous
• More specifically St. Annes at the south end of 5th Street
7/14/2006 9:47:39 AM by Anonymous
• I was not in the 1970 TKE photo (I never joined a frat) but my good friend Rick Poznanski is. He is the third from the left in the front. -- Ken DeBack, MTU Class of 1973
7/14/2008 10:11:44 AM by Anonymous
• I was on the TKE roof in 1970 for this picture that was in the Keweenawan photograph. The TKE chapter house was purchased in 1969 and I was one of the residence during the 1969-1970 school year. I recall the roof was considered the beach - no sand and no water, so why the beach. Could it be the snow that we shoveled off the roof and occasionally jumped into (snow is a form of water)? -- Joe Eutizi, BSME, MTU Class of 1971
7/14/2008 10:19:54 AM by Anonymous
• I am in the front row third from the right. The person on my left is Bill McKilligan, whom I believe to still be working for Tech. -- Tom Kay
7/14/2008 10:21:17 AM by Anonymous
• The white picket fence is very close to where Captain maunder's residence was. His daughter now lives there.
7/15/2008 5:31:02 PM by cpomazal
• This was in Ironwood. The sign is for Gertz Furniture. Next door is the old S&L Building and the power company on the other side.
7/16/2012 4:47:19 PM by Anonymous
Name:Sarah Fayen Scarlett
MTU Class of:
I believe this image is reversed. If you're looking up the hill, the house and the line of company buildings behind it should be on your left.
7/17/2014 2:03:29 PM by Anonymous
• While this is an Atlas Powder magazine of the type maintained at the various larger mine sites, the three magazines at the Senter Plant are all bermed with earth and are of much different design.
7/18/2006 1:14:51 PM by omega
• My uncles and aunts used to ride this train to school. Great shot from where my boyhood home was located just about 1/4 mile away.
7/18/2009 12:18:29 PM by Anonymous
• My grandfather (Moise LePage) worked in the Copper Mines in the late 1800's. This picture shows how they dressed. I really enjoyed it.
7/18/2010 2:41:15 PM by Anonymous
• Gerrit Leeftink- Not sure, but the farthest right and forward student looks like my dad. Again, more like the early 60s than 50s. Picture was published in alumni magazine in 2010.
7/18/2011 4:36:19 PM by Anonymous
• Those men might be Knights of Columbus 4th Degree. -- Jim Seelye
7/2/2009 11:54:43 AM by Anonymous
• This seems to be an erroneous image number. Direct researchers to image # MS042-039-999-T-047 instead.
7/2/2012 1:05:34 PM by Anonymous
• The man on the right is John Wilson, a master with wood working.........
7/2/2013 8:36:19 PM by Anonymous
• This church was built in 1882 and was replaced by the church in current use in 1912, so the photograph can be dated as sometime in the thirty years between 1882 and 1912.
7/20/2007 10:56:06 AM by Anonymous
• Looks like the college bowl has their names spelled Chuck Weber, Bill Massey, Byron Boyd, and Ray Ganga.
7/20/2009 10:04:29 AM by Anonymous
Name:Bob Schenkel
MTU Class of:
A follow up to my 7/10/20012 entry: The next morning after this incident full bird USAF Colonel and others from the Pentagon arrived at the radar site. The Colonel interviewed me, he started by reciting a portion of the UCMJ regarding self-incrimination, and if I wished that I could seek council before talking with him. He also informed me that they were going to hang" someone over this incident.I told him I have nothing to hide and we talked and then he reviewed the log book classified as "SECRET". I had a detailed account of this incident from the previous day.Shortly thereafter the radar site commander, a major, shipped out."
7/20/2012 12:56:01 PM by Anonymous
• Excellent work that I first found in the MTU Bookstore. It is important to have a digital archive of this available to the public. Thanks.
7/20/2012 2:22:08 PM by pametz
• This photograph must be circa 1900, and definitely before 1908.The 1901-1902 Polk Directory listings for Calumet indicate that Skelly & Co. was operated by Thomas Skelly and Charles Skelly. Their business is described as Wholesale Cigars and Specialties" and the address given in this year is 404 Oak Street. This same directory includes a listing for the C.W. Gale bicycle shop at 402 Oak and a listing for G.F. Mather at 400 Oak (the latter is listed under "Dyers & Cleaners" in the business directory at the back of the volume).A quick check of the 1900 Sanborn fire insurance map for Red Jacket shows a building at the Southwest corner of Oak and Fourth Streets which includes a reference to a "dyer" as one of the tennants (there is no reference to either the cigar or bicycle businesses). By 1908, the building is gone.The 1907-1908 Polk Directory for Calumet lists both Charles & Joseph Skelly as "removed to Minneapolis, Minn." Seems as if this building would have stood on the corner of Fourth and Oak, directly behind what is now Hermann Jewelers (which may be the edge of the building to the right in this photo)."
7/21/2006 9:07:29 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• I wonder if this is kin to George Shabal (WWII U.S. Navy Seabee) who raised his family near Rochester Michigan. His children were Dave, Mike, Rene, and Patrick -M.Norman Union Lake MI
7/21/2013 9:28:33 PM by Anonymous
• The front of this building was facing 7th St. The other side in view was along Scott St.
7/21/2014 2:42:20 PM by roholmstrom
• Church behind St Anthony is Red Jacket Congregational. Calumet Congregational was on the southern corner of Calumet Ave and Red Jacket.
7/21/2014 3:55:05 PM by Anonymous
• The 1900 Sanborn maps refer to this building as the Finnlander School"."
7/21/2014 4:12:21 PM by Anonymous
• The call sign for the station was WWAO
7/22/2010 10:41:55 AM by Anonymous
• There is a two page description of radio station WWAO beginning on page 168 of the 1924 Keweenawan yearbook.
7/22/2010 10:45:46 AM by Anonymous
• The antenna for this station included towers on the top both Hubbell Hall and Koenig hall and a series of wires hung between the two buildings.
7/22/2010 10:46:19 AM by Anonymous
• Most historians give her first name as Lucena.
7/22/2011 7:21:37 AM by Anonymous
• I would like to know if a Roy C. Overholt was in this National Guard division. If he was, what was his rank, and his duties ???? Thank you Lester Stark
7/23/2007 11:19:25 PM by Starkunited
• As I recall the Sig Rho house burned down at its original location in Houghton just across from the Sherman Gym in 54 or 55. I remember it was a great loss even though I was a KD. We were kind of similar as a frat and got along very well. I think they relocated to Chassell at that time and escaped the scrutiny of whatever the group was named that eliminated social parties at frats".--no beer. -- Jim Nyquist "
7/23/2009 5:50:26 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this is the smelter at Lac La Belle, looks in worse shape from this view which was taken in 1908.http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=606618#
7/23/2009 9:14:12 PM by Anonymous
Name:Chad

This is the C&H dispensary in Lake Linden, currently the Houghton County Historical Society Museum.
7/23/2013 10:49:35 PM by Anonymous
• I believe that this is in fact E" shaft, otherwise known as Champion #4. "
7/24/2007 10:31:38 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Bethlehem Lutheran Church (Suomi Synod)located on the corner of Depot and Laurium streets in Hecla location.(between Laurium and Calumet) Its front has been heavily modified since. Its predecessor was located on Agent street. It merged with the Swedish Ev Lutheran Church in the early 1960's.
7/24/2014 11:34:42 AM by rholmstrom
• The unidentified fireman in the top picture is Joseph Banovetz.
7/25/2009 7:28:42 PM by Anonymous
• Looks more like the Ahmeek #3 and 4 shaft
7/25/2011 6:40:35 PM by yooper557
• Comment: This appears to be a very early photo of the North Portage Entry Lighthouse before it was enlarged in both living quarters and height.
7/25/2013 10:37:14 AM by RS2DER
• The addition of Isle Royale" to title would be helpful."
7/25/2013 10:40:09 AM by RS2DER
• Seems like every town in the Copper Country had a Chinese laundry.
7/26/2006 1:36:25 PM by Anonymous
• Seems like every town in the Copper Country had a Chinese laundry.
7/26/2006 1:36:48 PM by Anonymous
• Seems like every town in the Copper Country had a Chinese laundry.
7/26/2006 1:37:28 PM by Anonymous
• Seems like every town in the Copper Country had a Chinese laundry.
7/26/2006 1:37:47 PM by Anonymous
• These barrels were used to haul small peices of copper. The barrels are heavily reinforced to haul large amounts of weight. This copper was often referred to as barrel works.
7/26/2008 2:00:11 PM by Anonymous
• I am a member of Calumet Township and the members are Keith Jenich, Paul Mohar, Bill Schniederhan, Richie Caron and Jim Gernah, and they are standing by our 1975 Howe Pumper
7/27/2009 1:05:06 AM by Anonymous
• This is the C&H fire department. The fire hall is on Mine St, which is now Calumet Township and the truck is the 1919 American LaFrance which has been restored and can be seen at the Firefighters Museum on Sixth street. The three doors in front have been motified to two but you can still see where the three doors were. -- Pat Boberg
7/27/2009 1:12:31 AM by Anonymous
• This appears to be part of the Incline tramway used for moving copper ore from the top of the hill to the C & H mills in Lake Linden, MI
7/27/2013 2:06:10 PM by Anonymous
• This is a rare picture! The church in the foreground is the original Methodist church on Calumet Ave. The large building across the street and just north of the church is the C&H hospital. The small church, to the left, on Mine street, is the difficult to find, Trinity Lutheran Church which was the earliest Lutheran church built in the community
7/27/2014 11:05:07 AM by Anonymous
• It had to be a bit later than that because the car at the stop sign wasn't built before the late 60's or early 70's.
7/27/2014 11:36:10 AM by Anonymous
• This picture was taken prior to the large addition which was later added parallel to Red jacket Rd. (Also, the shed had not been added on the north side yet.) Notice that Calumet HS had not been built yet either.
7/27/2014 9:41:56 AM by Anonymous
• This is an image looking west at the #1 Shaft where currently tourists can walk underground at the Delaware Mine Tour. The shaft house is located over the middle of what is now the parking lot. Some of the support timbers for the shaft house can still be seen embedded in the parking lot. -- Tom Poynter
7/28/2009 12:00:56 PM by Anonymous
• Hello just want to add some correct information, the house was actually built in 1880 for Annabelle Jones, the librarian for the Calumet and Hecla Mining company, Miss Jones' father was the builder of the great home, it has a lot of history and has been a very interesting place to work, I have been cleaning there for a month, very enjoyable.
7/28/2011 11:12:29 PM by Anonymous
• The church is the original Bethlehem Lutheran Church which was located on Agent street in Hecla location (just south of Calumet Avenue. This congregation later moved, following a fire, to a new building circa 1930 on Depot street also in Hecla but closer to Laurium).
7/28/2014 4:00:12 PM by Anonymous
Name:diane johnson
MTU Class of:
Karl Johan Sorsen, later Dr. Charles J, Sorsen is the third from the left in the standing row. He was a fine baritone. He performed with a Finnish Men's Choir at the opening of the Calumet theater in 1900.He was 23 at the time of this photograph. Before moving to Calumet in 1890, he graduated from Oulu Lyseo and from an apprenticeship with a leading pharmacist in Oulu, Finland. He worked for a year in the Macdonald pharmacy in Calumet. He opened his own pharmacy on Fifth Street in Calumet a year later and sold it to his maternal Sodegren cousins when he left to attend medical school in Chicago. In 1903 he founded a hospital in Laurium, MIchigan which is still in existence.
7/28/2015 1:52:20 PM by Anonymous
• I do remember the station. I took a train ride from Houghton to Milwaukee for a military physical. I guess it was cheaper that the Blue Goose which I later flew for a second trip to Milwaukee. I graduated in Summer 1968 and was trying to go Navy Civil Engineer Corps. I remember one of my civil professors, known for his rather prudent spending, was on the train also. But he (I do not recall his name now) was only going to Chassell with his granddaughter. I guess she wanted to ride on the train and grandpa could only afford the short few minutes of travel to Chassell. Maybe he was going to the frat house in Chassell also? It was a sad day for the UP when the railroad went away. -- Rick Martin, MTU Class of 1968
7/29/2008 5:31:21 PM by Anonymous
• I remember arriving at the Houghton depot in the morning after an all night trip from the Soo. It was the late 40's and after school ended at the Soo branch [Soo Tech] I had to get to Houghton for summer surveying class. The train left the Soo in the afternoon and went to Trout Lake for a long stop or perhaps we changed trains. Then it was on to Pembine Wisc, where we got off and spent a few hours in the station waiting for the train which came up from Chicago. Finally in the wee hours of the morning we left for Houghton and arrived about midmorning. Not the kind of trip easily forgotten. -- Larry Watson, 51
7/29/2008 5:32:33 PM by Anonymous
• I remember taking the 14 hour trip from Detroit to Houghton in 1957 for my freshman year at Tech hauling a large metal foot locker with all my belongings. We called it the square wheel express back then. -- Jim Roley, Michigan Tech Class of 1962
7/29/2008 5:33:06 PM by Anonymous
• I well remember the depot in downtown Houghton. My first year at Tech was 58-59. I was a transfer from Benton Harbor Jr. College pursuing a ME degree. I left my fiancé at home when I came up to Tech. When Winter Carnival time came around in 1959, she decided to come up for the event. I got her a room in the Union, and her brother drove her to Chicago to catch the train for Houghton. It sure was a wonderful day when I went to the depot to pick her up in a borrowed car, a wonderful week-end, and a sad time when I had to take her back to the depot to go back home. We got married the following September, and she came back up to Tech with me for the last two years. The last year, we lived in the brand new student housing up behind Wadsworth. This September, we will be married 49 years. You bet I remember that Depot. -- Andy Robinson, Michigan Tech Class of 1961
7/29/2008 5:34:10 PM by Anonymous
• I remember the depot and the Milwaukee Road train. Took it to Milwaukee and back to 'Da Tech' once during my freshman year. I recall, if my memory serves me correctly, it left Houghton at 7 PM and arrived in Beer town at 7 AM the following morning after numerous and lengthy stops along the way. It had earned the sobriquet of The Square Wheeler". The return trip, also overnight, was in the company of some fellow Wadsworth friends returning from Philly who had, and shared, a fifth of "antifreeze" (The conductor also shared in a nip or two) and we arrived in Houghton in the early morning darkness feeling quite mellow. After that trip I always "snared" a ride, splitting the gas cost, or thumbed. Once was enough!! -- Rick Mahringer, Forestry, Michigan Tech Class of 1966"
7/29/2008 5:35:17 PM by Anonymous
• In 1957 I traveled with the Tech Band on a special train from this depot to Colorado Springs for the NCAA hockey play offs. Many students and local fans joined us for an enjoyable journey to the West. Later I returned to this depot from an interview trip to US Steel in North Chicago. The train stopped in Baraga for a fresh roll and coffee for breakfast served on the train. -- Kyle R Ericson, BSME, Michigan Tech Class of 1959
7/29/2008 5:35:59 PM by Anonymous
• The only thing I remember about the train was that when we heard it go by on the railroad tracks below DHH, the day's mail would arrive at the dorm mailroom about two hours later. Back when dirt was young", without modern communications technology, we waited expectantly outside the wall of pigeon hole boxes, hoping there would appear in the little window a letter from the girl friend back home. Could today's student even imagine that each precinct of DHH shared one phone stuck in a cubby hole in the hall wall? I believe there was a buzzer in each room. The switchboard operator signaled the person being called to come to that phone. I got maybe two calls a year. -- Larry Doyle, Michigan Tech Class of 1964"
7/29/2008 5:36:49 PM by Anonymous
• In September 1948 I boarded a train in Providence, RI and headed to Houghton. I had traveled quite a bit by train in the East and had seen many large train stations. After 24 hours riding trains, I arrived in Houghton and was met by hockey coach Amo Bessone at the smallest depot I had ever seen. The depot looked smaller than our streetcar exchange station in downtown Providence. For the next nine months, I lived in the Dee flats above the Board of Trade Bar on Isle Royale St. about 100 yards from the depot. I heard the two trains a day arriving and departing for Chicago and Detroit. I have memories of boarding trains at the depot to go back home, traveling with the hockey them and meeting friends coming from out of town. My saddest memory is arriving back from Grayling in 1950 with Coach Bessone after the fatal bus accident. -- Bob Monahan
7/29/2008 5:37:43 PM by Anonymous
Name:woodenshoe
MTU Class of:
I was stationed here in 1962/63. Loved the people, good duty and had a great experience.
7/29/2015 11:42:13 AM by woodenshoe
• Instead of a run down city hall" could this be before the hall was completed?"
7/3/2006 5:56:17 PM by Anonymous
• Would that be a bridge" over the ice from the bottom of Huron Street over to Ripley? I've seen images of such a bridge before."
7/3/2006 9:35:43 AM by Anonymous
• Possibly a ferry? There was a ferry dock there at one time.
7/3/2006 9:56:41 AM by Anonymous
• I remember the Julie London concert well. My girlfriend (future wife) was visiting for Carnival and attended the concert with me. We were in the front row and Julie asked if anyone had a Marlboro cigarette. I started to reach for mine and my girlfriend poked me and told me to leave it in my pocket. The guy two seats down produced an Marlboro and Julie sat on his lap and sang the jingle “You get a lot to like with a Marlboro.” I have never forgiven my wife for that!Don Truax was a fraternity brother of mine and he died a few years ago.--Harry Glidden class of 1965
7/3/2012 12:19:23 PM by Anonymous
• I vividly remember this occasion. My wife Pat & I were close friends with Dave and Patty Stallard. Dave was just tickled to be meeting the talented and beautiful lady and talked about it for days. Seems like yesterday.--Bill Perkins; Applied Physics class of 1966
7/3/2012 12:20:42 PM by Anonymous
• I don't wan't to take anything away from the 1973 DHH Statue. It was a wonderful piece of artwork and engineering, but their suspended figure was not a first. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture but one does exist in the Lode Pictorial for I believe 1970. St. Albert the Great suspended snow and ice in the form of a dolphin and shark with structure designed by Christopher Zoppa, a civil engineering student. It was all fabricated on site with essentially scrap lumber and steel cable. Others may remember better than I, but I seem to recall a figure of nearly 40 tons of suspended ice in that sculpture. I also remember rules limiting the amount of structure in a statue at that time, and we were pushing the limit.Winter Carnival was a great one for us that year, and I often think of how much better we could have done in the classroom if we'd put the same kind of effort into studies. However, we all need fun too.--Gregory Switek
7/3/2012 12:26:52 PM by Anonymous
• This is a view of Calumet and Hecla's mills in Lake Linden. The railroad track is the line coming down from Calumet.
7/3/2013 11:33:38 AM by yooper557
• I was stationed there from September 1978 to February 1980. Met Beverly Bullock, who was the daughter of SMSgt Bobby Bullock, and we married in August of 1980, after my discharge. We will have our 35th anniversary this year. Bobby Bullock made Chief while assigned at Ellsworth AFB. He retired there and passed away on 6/16/2013.
7/3/2015 8:11:09 PM by Anonymous
• There is a church steeple visible in the background. -- Erik Nordberg
7/30/2012 10:15:02 AM by Anonymous
• The steeple shown in the background is St. Anne's church. -- Erik Nordberg
7/30/2012 10:17:38 AM by Anonymous
Name:Pam Gramling
MTU Class of:
Henry and Anna Dyni, Finnish immigrants, lived in this house with their 13 children, most of whom were born in Central Mine between 1886 and 1906
7/30/2012 11:21:55 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Haeussler
MTU Class of:
This photo was taken shortly after the April 11, 1869 fire that devastated Hancock. At the far right is St. Anne's Catholic Church on the northeast corner of Quincy and Ravine Streets. The rectory and school are behind the church. Following the fence around to Franklin Street, the good-sized building near the center of the image housed the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Louis (MO) Province, who served in the parish. MS042-042-999-T-395 is another glass plate of this image.
7/30/2014 12:42:03 AM by Anonymous
• Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul & Pacific # 5925 was the first of ten diesel-electric motor cars built in 1928 by the Standard Steel Car Company. They were built on contract for Electro-Motive Corporation of Cleveland, soon to be absorbed by General Motors and re-named the Electro-Motive Division of GM.This car had a 275hp Winton Diesel powering a General Electric DC generator. There is a baggage compartment in the rear of the car.Many railroads bought cars like this to replace steam trains on branch lines due to the lower operating costs of the motorcars. They were generally only powerful enough to haul one or two cars behind the motorcar. This train at Mass appears to have only one coach.It is headed towards Channing from Ontonagon.
7/30/2014 9:04:47 PM by elshogger
• This depot was probably built around 1900 as the CM&StP Bridge and Building Department drawing of the floor plan is dated January 15, 1900. This was a standard plan that was used in at least ten towns in Michigan, Iowa, and North Dakota. A less elaborate plan was adopted in 1901 eliminating the bay window on the second floor.
7/30/2014 9:36:37 PM by elshogger
Name:Erik Johnson
MTU Class of:
My name is Erik Johnson and my father was stationed at the AF Base in Calumet as a radar operator. My father Harold Jonny" Johnson used to tell me about the UFO incident and I'm writing a book about it. I'm looking for people who would not mind there story's told in it. I'm also looking for case files or documents relating to it. I can be contacted at marshmellow1968@gmail.com. Thank you WT3 USN Erik Johnson Ret. sorry couldn't get into the AF."
7/30/2015 6:01:21 PM by Anonymous
• A better scan of this same image is Image #:ACC09-004A-005. Both were scanned from glass plate negatives, but the other negative (loaned by Chuck Pomazal) is a better quality negative.
7/31/2009 10:26:43 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This is a much better scan of this same image than Image # Acc-541-01-01-1991-001-017. Both were scanned from glass plate negatives, but this one (loaned by Chuck Pomazal) is a better quality negative.
7/31/2009 10:27:55 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This building appears to the be the Machine Shop near the No. 2 and No. 6 locations at Quincy.
7/31/2009 10:29:19 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This is a view of Hancock following the 1869 fire and rebuilding of the town. It was probably taken in 1870 or 1871. The street in the foreground is Franklin Street. It intersects with Ravine Street near the far right of the image. The church visible is the First Congregational Church on the southwest corner of Hancock and Tezcuco Streets. Houghton is seen in the distance across Portage Lake. MS042-999-T-449 was taken from this vantage point immediately after the fire in 1869. Kudos to J.T. Reeder for returning to this spot and providing this follow-up image. Coupled with the immediate post-fire image they form a wonderful before and after view of the rebuilding of Hancock.
7/31/2014 10:57:52 PM by John Haeussler
• This is not THE Atlas magazine from the Senter site, as they are all earthened bermed and of entirely different construction. I suspect that this is one of several local Atlas magazine that were actually at the various mine sites around the area.
7/4/2006 2:16:55 PM by Anonymous
• A view, looking north from what is today Woodside Lane. Behind the gate is the laboratory, behind that is the fume stack. The blast was to the right of the fume stack.
7/4/2006 2:23:31 PM by omega
• The anonymous poster of 2/26/2015 is likely confusing the Quincy #2 shaft-rockhouse with the Hancock #2 shaft-rockhouse. Quincy #2 is northeast of the location shown here and remains a popular tourist attraction to this day. Hancock #2 (Hancock Consolidated Mining Company) was roughly at the intersection of Ingot and Elevation and is shown above. The shaft-rockhouse seen here was torn down ca. 1938. The concrete abutments for the two rock bins still stand between Elevation and 2nd, south of Ingot. They can be seen from many angles but are perhaps best appreciated from an aerial view (e.g. Google).
7/4/2015 10:05:15 PM by John Haeussler
• This photo probably was taken in late winter or early spring. Sugaring has begun because the evaporator is being used.
7/5/2006 4:20:47 PM by Anonymous
• Spanky's (owned by Don Kratt) was previously the Isle Royal bar, which closed about 1968 (just before I turned 21).
7/5/2016 9:57:06 PM by Anonymous
• The man on the far left is William Leinenkugel. His photo appears in an article about Bosch which appeared in the Daily Mining Gazette on December 1, 1973. The man second from the left appears to be Albert L. Chaput, the Bosch Brewing Company Secretary-Treasurer. His photo appears in the February 1966 article about Bosch in a magazine called Brewers Digest.
7/6/2006 9:32:30 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• The man involved in the image, is my brother-in-law (now deceased), James Kolka, Chassell, who worked at Senter until the final 'blow-up', in which he was injured, retiring soon after on disability. His wife, Alice, survives, and continues to live in Chassell. -- Roland Burgan
7/6/2009 4:47:40 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dennis Walikainen
MTU Class of:92 and 09
Just wanted to correct the spelling of the last name: Raade, not Reade.
7/6/2010 11:40:34 AM by Anonymous
Name:Pat Kolka
MTU Class of:1979
This was taken in the early 1960, the black car is a '62 or '63 Ford.
7/6/2010 8:52:11 PM by Anonymous
Name:Pat Kolka
MTU Class of:
I had my first date with my soon to be wife there. They had the best hamburgers in town. I was saddened to see it close.
7/6/2010 9:13:21 PM by Anonymous
• Librarians: Ellen Ryynane - 1950's, Ellen Kotila - 1960's, Beth Patterson - 1970 & 80's.
7/6/2010 9:20:50 AM by jandalq
• the Rock shop was on the smaller end of the camp. the datolite collection my grandfather owned was split up when the house was sold to a party from MN. today, the camp does not stand. Kathleen Jackman *granddaughter)
7/6/2015 8:43:42 PM by kphillips25
Name:ed maki
MTU Class of:1968
This picture appears to be near the old Jacobsville post office, store.The hanging structure sticking out from the cliff is how they got their water from the lake. I did see it many years ago.
7/7/2014 9:27:13 AM by Anonymous
• This appears to be the west end of School street from the days when the road still went between the Washington school and the HS. The north end of the Gear House is visible in the upper left. Calumet #2 is the prominent Shaftrockhouse at upper right. The picture was probably taken from an upper floor of the HS looking northwest.
7/7/2015 4:20:02 PM by Anonymous
• Checked my maps, and with the locations of the boiler, hoist, and dryhouse, its not the #6, but close fit to the #5
7/8/2015 1:45:35 PM by Anonymous
• Second man from the left is my dad - Clarence Germain who passed awayFebuary 11th 1997.
7/9/2008 5:35:26 PM by Anonymous
• Between her meek voice, very strong southern accent, and cavernous SDC arena, I caught very little of her speech. It was unfortunate; as I’m sure she had some interesting memories of a critical time in our country. -- John Andree, MTU Class of 1989
7/9/2008 8:37:37 AM by Anonymous
• That is my head behind the trombone. This is one of the first gigs of the band that later became Vanilla Thunder (http://www.garageband.com/artist/VTFunk), and played around the area until about 2001 (frequently at JDs Boathouse). I can't remember what we called ourselves at first, when this photo was taken (Spring Fling 1998 is right). Also in the picture are David Falls (lower left) on bass, Chad Lukkarila on saxophone, Brian Rajdl on trumpet in the middle, and Steve Morrow on the keyboard at the far right. I forget the name of the girl in green singing vocals. -- Philip Wells, MTU Class of 2000
7/9/2008 8:39:11 AM by Anonymous
• I think the one in the white jacket is my sorority sister Karen Schneider (now Karen Brodine). -- Cynthia Protas Hodges, Alpha Delta Alpha, MTU BSME 1987 MSME 1989
7/9/2008 8:47:27 AM by Anonymous
• I have been misidentified! The lower row, left is not Gary Hodges...but me Mark Kellogg '84 I was one of the captains for the Telefund team then.I'd like to know who ID'd me as Gary! We didn't look that much alike.-- Mark Kellogg
7/9/2008 8:48:34 AM by Anonymous
• From the June 2, 2008 Tech Alum e-newsletter:Upper row (L to R): Brian Hoag, Kim Waldron, Tom McGovern, Werner Gutknecht / Lower row (L to R): Mark Kellogg, Steve Bailo, Brain Wines, Stefano Savastano
7/9/2008 8:49:42 AM by Anonymous
• This sketching room" photo looks like something from my era, but I don't recognize anyone. (The haircuts & clothes appear to be from the 1950s.) In Mechanical Engineering, we did have to take a class in making sketches.-- Larry Doyle, MTU Class of 1964"
7/9/2008 8:51:31 AM by Anonymous
Name:Christine Gail Talbert
MTU Class of:
Maude is my grandmother. My mother was Betty June Roberts. I have some pictures of my grandmother. Who are you? Email me at alphamomma@hotmail.com.
7/9/2010 1:59:34 PM by Anonymous
Name:Deb Charlesworth
MTU Class of:1993
On the left, Paula Wittbrodt (class of '93?), Robert Claus in the middle (class of '94?), and Debra (Wright) Charlesworth on the right - class of '93. We're on the porch of the Alumni House, where calling took place while I was in the Michigan Tech Student Foundation. Every student caller got a t-shirt for participating, and it looks like we're all wearing ours proudly!
7/9/2012 4:13:04 PM by Anonymous
• Methodist Episcopal (ME)
7/9/2016 11:54:40 AM by Anonymous
• Dr. Fred Jeffers my great, great Uncle. Founder of Jeffers High School, Painsdale, Mi. Fine educator, who ran his school as if it was a military school. As a child he was placed on the Orphan Train from out East, to the mid west. Adopted into a Michigan family, the family agreed to keep my great grandfather Alfred, and Fred in close contact. Fred's parents were both from Ireland, and settled in Massachusetts.
8/1/2013 11:07:42 PM by Anonymous
• There's a large pile of lumber in the foreground, making some think this might be a sawmill.
8/10/2007 3:12:28 PM by Anonymous
• Captain of the Jay C. Morse was Christian Borgen.
8/10/2007 8:14:27 AM by Anonymous
• This is the Gratiot Number 2 shaft, later on it became the Seneca Number 2. This shaft was reopened in 1946 by C&H and lasted until 1966, when it was closed and in 1968 the shaft house was torn down
8/10/2008 8:27:04 PM by Anonymous
• There appears to be smoke coming out of the third house on the right. Close examination of the original revealed that it is a checkered quilt on the line and the movement in the wind blurred the image.
8/10/2009 11:43:41 AM by cpomazal
• This one is printed backwards...
8/10/2009 12:00:10 PM by cpomazal
• When viewed with Acc-541-01-01-1991-001-012, it makes a panoramic view."
8/10/2009 12:38:51 PM by cpomazal
• When viewed with Acc-541-01-01-1991-001-013, it makes a panoramic view."
8/10/2009 12:40:14 PM by cpomazal
• Early 1960s, Cold War Era. Trained in radar maintenance at Kessler AFB, Biloxi, Miss. part of my duties included working in Radar Operations as the interface between Calumet AFS, MI and NORAD. I did track UFOs and cryptically record pertinent data such as speed, altitude & direction using a FPS-64 Search Radar and up to two FPS-6s Height Finder Radars. The radars were on different frequency bands. I was aware of AP or anomalous propagation and factored that in. Speeds of the bogies were up to 2K MPH, at times altitudes from near ground level to 100,000 feet in less than a minute and right angle turns not uncommon. The radar returns were consistent with a return from a medium aircraft.After reporting these occurrences to my C&E Officer I was flown to K.I. Sawyer AFB to report this information directly to NORAD. Every few months myself and others like myself from the Great Lakes USAF Radar Sites were flown to NORAD at Madison AFB, WI. We were sequestered from others and reported to a small group that appeared to be military where we were also questioned.
8/10/2012 9:27:40 AM by Anonymous
• Poland didn't exist as a country at the time. It was occupied by Russia, Prussia, and Austria.
8/10/2014 10:21:02 AM by Anonymous
• The Red Jacket Congregational Church is on the left.
8/10/2014 9:55:37 AM by Anonymous
• Having lived in the Milwaukee area for the last 39 years, I think I know a little about brewery tours. Although the Bosch tour was not what you would call very polished or professional, it was the best ever. As well as I can remember, a group of 3 or 4 of us took the tour on a spring afternoon in 1960, the year we were graduating. We were led through the tour by an ordinary brewery worker dressed in his work clothes, no uniformed guide, no men in suits. After listening to the explanation of the process, viewing the copper kettles and sniffing the hops, we were taken to the sampling room. It looked like a place where the employees might have their lunch breaks, a few simple tables and chairs, a long counter along one wall with an industrial sink, over which, projecting from the wall, was a single beer spigot (only one variety). There were some glasses on the counter. As soon as our guide pointed out the facilities, he excused himself with a cheery Have fun boys!" and we were left alone.I can't remember which friends were on this tour with me, but if they read this, maybe they can or maybe not. -- Anton Usowski, Michigan Tech Class of 1960"
8/11/2008 10:09:25 AM by Anonymous
• I downed a few brews once at the Bosch tap room" during the early 50's and recall that it did not have much ambience. It was more like having a beer in an unfinished basement with a home made bar. But the beer was free! The Haas brewery in Hancock was still in business early in my Tech days but I never visited its tap room if they had one. Haas beer was a level down from Bosch and referred to in a vernacular term for "horse urine." -- Al Robertson, Michigan Tech Class of 1954"
8/11/2008 10:10:25 AM by Anonymous
• The Milwaukee Road train from Chicago to Houghton was called the Copper Country Limited. I put my wife and three kids on that train in Chicago more than a few times. My wife was from Dollar Bay and wanted to spend more than my vacation time visiting her folks so they took the train and I drove up later. It was a neat way for them to travel as they would get a sleeping compartment and, since the train left Chicago in the early evening, when they woke up the next morning, they were in Houghton and the grandparents were there to meet them. -- Al Robertson, Michigan Tech Class of 1954
8/11/2008 10:12:11 AM by Anonymous
• I too remember the Copper Country Express on my first visit to Tech in mid January 1962 in the middle of a snow storm. We boarded in Chilton Wisconsin at 11:00 PM from a station smaller than the Houghton station. Chester Foster was gate agent at the Houghton Station at the time. Needless to say we arrived late for our appointment with the admissions office to check out the Campus. My cousin and I walked from the station to the old Ad building. After all that I still decided to attend Da Tech. -- Jim Woelfel (Michigan Tech Alum)
8/11/2008 10:15:20 AM by Anonymous
• This is a keypunch for punching cards. It's most likely an IBM 029.
8/11/2010 8:37:57 PM by bmcmillin
• This is the school in Gay.
8/11/2015 9:54:52 PM by Anonymous
• Actually, this looks like it is the bottom portion of a rockhouse (at right) and a large pulley (called a sheave) that diverted the cable towards the shaft's accompanying hoist house. Judging by the placement of the rockhouses in the background, which appear to be of the N. Kearsarge or Wolverine mines, this could have been the Tamarack Jr. mine.
8/12/2011 10:10:36 PM by Anonymous
• This is the Centennial mine's #1 shaft on the Kearsarge Amygdaloid.
8/12/2011 10:15:52 PM by Anonymous
• This photo shows the Central #2 shaft, abandoned.
8/12/2011 10:16:34 PM by Anonymous
• This photo shows the Central #2 shaft, abandoned.
8/12/2011 10:16:42 PM by Anonymous
• This is probably the stamp mill of the Mass Mine.
8/12/2011 10:20:07 PM by Anonymous
• I'm pretty sure this image is reversed. The Quincy shaft-rock house and hoist house actually have the opposite orientation to one another. And the Douglass House in Houghton has Isle Royale Street going down its other side from what is seen on this photo. Otherwise, great photo!
8/12/2011 10:23:26 AM by Anonymous
Name:Karyn Ruohonen Rudak

That is my uncle George on the right and Wally Jolie on the right.
8/12/2013 6:46:27 PM by Anonymous
• Calumet Opera House now known as the Calumet Theatre.
8/13/2007 2:54:44 PM by Anonymous
• Paul LaVanway had discussion with some members of the Keweenaw County Historical Society about this photograph, which they were indicating is of the Central Mine in Keweenaw County. On closer examination of the high-resolution scan, one can clearly discern what appears to be the Central Mine School on the hillside just left of center.The Archives doesn't generally change titles; it is part of historic inquiry to weigh varying pieces of information in search of informed opinion. But it is hoped that inclusion of this note will help people identify this photo as being of the town of Central, Central Mine, and the Central Mining Company.
8/13/2010 11:57:31 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• I am a great-great-great Granddaughter of George and Flora Enderich through their son Frederick and his daughter Loretta. Frederick moved to the Detroit area at the turn of the century. In my records, the last name is sometimes spelled Endrich.
8/13/2010 3:29:54 PM by lgerold
• Note where the road (M 26)is in the photo compared to where it is located today. While I was young living in Laurium, a big storm caused the lake to wash out some of the old road, thus it was relocated to where it passes through the dunes at the present time. Great Sand Bay, one of my favorite places in Keweenaw County.......
8/13/2013 8:44:29 PM by Anonymous
• Yes, this photo was taken from near the intersection of Quincy and Reservation Streets looking west. Probably from in front of Jacob Gartner's department store. In addition to the parade of elephants it offers a nice view of several buildings on the north side of Quincy Street's 100 block.
8/13/2014 8:45:51 PM by John Haeussler
• I believe that this photo was taken from the Northwestern Hotel. It looks east down Quincy Street toward the intersection with Tezcuco Street. The large building on the right is Baer Bros. meat market, which burned down in the $200,000 fire of 1923. Beyond Tezcuco Street is William Kerredge's hardware store, which now houses the Copper Country Community Arts Center.
8/13/2014 9:01:06 PM by John Haeussler
• This is a wonderful image of the Northwestern Hotel, which occupied 211-213-215 Quincy Street in Hancock.
8/13/2014 9:13:37 PM by John Haeussler
• This photo is from a series of images that also includes MTU Neg 00319, 00320, 00321, 00327, 01189, and 01329. I believe that these photos were taken from the Northwestern Hotel in the 200 block of Quincy Street. Most of these parade views, including this image, show Stringer's (lumber office), G. Rohrer's (jeweler), J.N. Mitchell's (furniture store), and other Hancock businesses on the south side of Quincy Street. The first building with the American flag high atop is home to Kaleva Cafe today. Immediately past it is St. Patrick's Hall, on the corner of Quincy and Ravine Streets.
8/13/2014 9:28:00 PM by John Haeussler
• This photo was made possible through the generous cooperation of Mr. Parrott and Mrs. Katherine Walker of the Transportation Corps who arranged for the photographer to mount a high vehicle. The picture shows the station, many of its vehicles and the group of visiting scientists, engineers and other Army dignitaries who arrived to make a tour of the station and to study the latest in vehicular design for snow and scientific research in snow, ice and permafrost.Shown here are: Robert Jackson, Chief of Engineers, Washington D.C.; for SIPRE at Wilmette, IL are Dr. Henri Bader, James E. Gillis Jr., Dr. R. W. Gerdel and R. E. Peterson; from Keweenaw Field Station, William H. Parrott; from Office, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Victor F. Bernardn, Office. Chief of Research and Development, D. C. Hoell, Lt. Col.; Col. H. E. Davison from Fort Knox. C. K. Heiden, Capt., Continental Army Command; Col. H. N. Maidt and Richard Kerr, Office, Chief of Transportation; from USA TRECOM, Col. John W. Koletty, Lt. Col. George McConnell, Lt. Col. E. S. Chrysler, J. A. Johnson, H. P. Simon, Robert McGowan and Mrs. Kathryn Walker; S. K. Knight from Waterways Experiment Station; Vincent M. Raimond of Wilson, Nuttall and Raimond Co.; from the Detroit Arsenal, Maj. G. Tuttle, Franklyn Bergeman. W. L. Harrison, Jr. Ben Hanamoto, John Lauro Jr., Edward C. Bowes, Anthony Peters, Stanley J. Pelczar, Fred Pradko, B. L. Chonicki, Willard G. Swartwood, Dexter N. Macomber, Frank J. Bruck; from the Signal Corps. Lt. Col. L. R. Klar, and Chief Leland K. Webster; Lt. C. Beresfors of NY; Ralph S. Knowlton of Duluth Corps of Engineers; from Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., E. M. Eikman, J. L. Hawley and L. S. Washburn; Fourwheel Drive Auto Co. D. J. DeCoursin and W. H. Peters; from Food Machinery and Chemical, Robert Postier; from Continental Aviation and Engineering Co., John Shenkosky and from International Harvester Co., F. J. Stoneburner and Richard S. Barr. [Comments taken from article appearing in the Friday, February 21, 1958 article of the Daily Mining Gazette.]
8/14/2007 1:20:34 PM by Anonymous
Name:Bill Sproule
MTU Class of:
This is a photo of the 1903-04 Portage Lake Hockey team - the first professional ice hockey team.
8/14/2012 4:40:08 PM by Anonymous
• Information from 1990 book entitled The Working Folks Bank: A History of Superior National Bank's First Century of Service, 1890-1990" cataloged to MTU Archives book collection at HG2613.H36 S96 1990.The bank has used several different buildings through the years. Two structures at the corner of Quincy and Reservation Streets in Hancock are closely associated with the bank. This photograph shows the interior of the building that was constructed at this site in 1900. In 1960, the bank constructed a new building further west on Quincy Street.SNB was founded in 1890 as the Superior Savings Bank. A separate company, the Superior Trust Company, founded in 1902 to provide for investment and trust business which the bank could not engage. In 1908, the bank received a national charter and became the Superior National Bank. In December 1941, the two separate companies were merged to form the Superior National Bank and Trust Company."
8/15/2006 3:14:17 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1854, Wright came to the Copper Country as a young man. His first job in Hancock was with the First National Bank though he later was admitted to the Michigan bar as a lawyer. Wright continued in a founding and executive role in several local banking operations, including the Superior Savings Bank, the Superior Trust Company (these two later merged to form the Superior National Bank and Trust), and the State Savings Bank of Lauirum. He was involved in developing both the Copper Range Company and the Keweenaw Copper Company. He also had a hand in the development of three significant railroads in the Keweenaw: the Copper Range Railroad, the Keweenaw Central Railroad and the Mineral Range Railroad (formerly the Hancock and Calumet). Wright was active in Republican politics at the local and state level. He died at the age of 57 in May 1911.Information from several sources, including Alvah Sawyer's 1911 A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan (cataloged to the MTU Archives book collection at F572.N8 S2), William Livingstone's "History of the Republican Party" (cataloged to the MTU Archives book collection at JK2356.L7)and a 1990 book entitled "The Working Folks Bank: A History of Superior National Bank's First Century of Service, 1890-1990" (cataloged to MTU Archives book collection at HG2613.H36 S96 1990)."
8/15/2006 3:44:20 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1854, Wright came to the Copper Country as a young man. His first job in Hancock was with the First National Bank though he later was admitted to the Michigan bar as a lawyer. Wright continued in a founding and executive role in several local banking operations, including the Superior Savings Bank, the Superior Trust Company (these two later merged to form the Superior National Bank and Trust), and the State Savings Bank of Lauirum. He was involved in developing both the Copper Range Company and the Keweenaw Copper Company. He also had a hand in the development of three significant railroads in the Keweenaw: the Copper Range Railroad, the Keweenaw Central Railroad and the Mineral Range Railroad (formerly the Hancock and Calumet). Wright was active in Republican politics at the local and state level. He died at the age of 57 in May 1911.Information from several sources, including Alvah Sawyer's 1911 A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan (cataloged to the MTU Archives book collection at F572.N8 S2), William Livingstone's "History of the Republican Party" (cataloged to the MTU Archives book collection at JK2356.L7)and a 1990 book entitled "The Working Folks Bank: A History of Superior National Bank's First Century of Service, 1890-1990" (cataloged to MTU Archives book collection at HG2613.H36 S96 1990)."
8/15/2006 3:47:42 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This building was also known as the Joseph Dee Block, as it was constructed by Joseph Dee.
8/15/2007 4:06:54 PM by Anonymous
• Frank Shabal was my uncle he died a year ago , He was a welth of information of the mining area. He drove dinement truck,worked on the dock . H.is father and brother were killed in the mines
8/15/2008 12:56:41 PM by Anonymous
• I do know that the man on the far right was Reuben Carne. He was a gem! He and his late wife Virginia (Ginny) were friends of my family growing up, and in fact, we adopted them as our Aunt and Uncle!
8/15/2011 12:57:55 AM by Anonymous
• Now THIS is how I remember Christmas in Houghton! BEAUTIFUL!
8/15/2011 5:24:37 PM by Anonymous
• I see TOGOS. OH to have a togo...BOMB OR TOPEDO.....YUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMY
8/15/2011 5:36:36 PM by Anonymous
Name:Charles Austin
MTU Class of:1971
The caption for this picture is in error. This is a view looking up Isle Royale Street. The cafe on the right is the present location of the Library Bar/Restaurant, and the large corner building one block up is the Douglass Hotel.
8/15/2012 11:28:02 AM by Anonymous
• Lydia Weidelman is my great grandaunt. The description in place on 15 August 2012 for this photo of her is inaccurate. Lydia was born in Finland in 1888. She lived in the Calumet area all her life, and died in 1937. She was reportedly a very sweet and sociable person, and did fine crochet and other handwork. We her family would like all to know that we are fond of her memory and trust that others look upon her kindly.Carol ParssinenMTU class of '85('88)
8/15/2012 5:17:51 PM by Anonymous
• It appears as if this negative was printed backwards. The tree was still there as late as 1996 or so.

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8/15/2012 8:19:28 PM by cpomazal
• This is the corrected view of Image MS015-MI-2-274
8/15/2012 8:22:03 PM by Anonymous
• On July 21, 1862, a contract was let for the construction of a court house, jail and sheriff's quarters which was to be built on Block 28 in Houghton, the present site of the court house. This building later became the juvenile home which stands about 50 feet from the copper covered structure now known as the Houghton County Courthouse which was built in 1886. The structure now known as the juvenile home was built in July of 1862 at a cost of $10,000 by contractor Procter P. Cowles. After the new court house was built in 1886, the old building became an armory of local militia. This armory unit moved here from an old building which stood on the present site of the Portage Township Library.From 1900 to 1946 it became the juvenile home. The first matron of the institution was Mrs. William Vivian,the second Mrs. Thomas McGrath, and the third and last Mrs. William Williams.From 1947 to June 15, 1951, the old juvenile home became the quarters for Michigan Tech married students with families, students originally from the Copper Country and veterans of World War II.Finally in 1951, the supervisors decided it should be remodeled and used further or sold for dismantling.Upon analysis, it was decided to reject all offers and to turn the structure over to the Welfare Department for salvage to use on the county hospital and other county buildings. (Daily Mining Gazette article - Saturday, February 15, 1958)
8/16/2007 9:09:55 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Army ROTC Commissioning in May 1977
8/16/2010 1:35:00 PM by Anonymous
• How did they get a 'defunct' stack to belch anew? Was it just for show?
8/16/2011 2:23:21 AM by Anonymous
Name:Steve Nicholas
MTU Class of:1983
this is Patty Sullivan from Hancock, who is now in the MTU Hall of Fame
8/16/2011 3:35:48 PM by Anonymous
• This view looks east down Quincy Street from the 200 block toward the fire hall, which sat at the end of Quincy just east of Reservation Street. This fire hall was moved to the Carroll Foundry in Houghton shortly after the new town hall/fire hall (Hancock City Hall) was opened in 1899, and Quincy Street was then extended one block farther east. At the far left of this image is Coughlin and Son's livery stable, followed by the Coughlin residence and the Northwestern Hotel. The three-story building across the street from the Northwestern is the Scott Block. At the far right is Wetzler & Hanauer's general store.
8/16/2014 6:06:04 PM by John Haeussler
• The Baer Bros. meat market stood on the southwest corner of Quincy and Tezcuco Streets. It was lost to fire on February 20, 1923. MTU No Neg 2008-04-01-05 (part of the set of Kukkonen postcard views of the $200,000 fire) is a similar view.
8/16/2014 6:18:50 PM by John Haeussler
• Cornwall-born Peter Holman, left, was first a miner and later a downtown grocer. His son-in-law, John N. Mitchell, right, was a furniture dealer. Mitchell married Holman's daughter Elizabeth in 1880 and later served as Hancock's fire chief. Holman and Mitchell both operated businesses on the south side of Quincy Street in the 200 block.
8/16/2014 6:38:29 PM by John Haeussler
• This is Hancock's second Germania Hall, built on the same site as the original. It was dedicated in January 1907 and lost to fire on December 4, 1966. It stood at 311-315 Quincy Street and was renamed Lincoln Hall near the end of World War I.
8/16/2014 6:44:53 PM by John Haeussler
• This October 12, 1912, parade is headed for Hancock’s Driving Park and the annual Michigan College of Mines freshmen-versus-sophomores football game. It was then the main athletic event of the college year, with the players transported on horse-drawn drays. The lead car appears to carry seniors, who were instructed to wear hats, flowers, and ribbons and to carry canes.
8/16/2014 6:51:09 PM by John Haeussler
• A great description is given below. The millinery shop is Ethel M. Kinsman's. The next building down is Charles Gekas's confectionery shop, which is now home to WMPL radio.
8/16/2014 6:56:40 PM by John Haeussler
• The Mason Block or Mason Building stood at the corner of Quincy and Mesnard Streets. It contained a meat market, grocery, and bakery operated by brothers Thomas D. and William H. Mason, Civil War veterans from Wisconsin.
8/16/2014 7:02:44 PM by John Haeussler
• This photo depicts the north side of Quincy Street in the 700 block. The large building to the left of the street banner was most recently Monticello Grocery. On Lung Laundry, with sign visible in the background, was located at 711 Quincy Street. [Charles Lung's laundry was located at 309 Tezcuco Street.] Based on the buildings in the background, the condition of Quincy Street, and the garb worn by the elephant riders, I believe that this is the Ringling Bros. Circus parade of July 11, 1912.
8/16/2014 7:14:15 PM by John Haeussler
• Some people might search for this as the Northwestern Hotel (all one word).
8/17/2007 8:15:59 AM by Anonymous
• It is actually the James Dee Block, named for the same guy that the Dee Stadium is named for.
8/17/2007 8:42:44 AM by Anonymous
• I have inherited a sword that is engraved with the USA order of St George on one side of the blade and on the other The name Charles Ashton. I dont know if it's a family member but think it must be since my grandfather was from England. Can anyone tell me who this is....- V Balmforth
8/18/2012 10:51:52 PM by Anonymous
• Note the passenger train traveling in the distance, amazing there was such a thing back in those days...........
8/18/2013 8:39:09 PM by Anonymous
• It is the poor rock bin being put into place. The Jaw crushers (ore) feed into the large bin in place. Mass copper would have probably been handled at the collar house using the over head crane.
8/19/2006 4:21:43 PM by djoeyd114
• It is Hancock No. 2 Shaft, from the tram leading to the mill
8/19/2006 4:24:05 PM by djoeyd114
• This is Champion A Shaft, Kevin Musser could probably confirm as he has pictures of it.
8/19/2006 4:26:54 PM by djoeyd114
• This might be the first reference to a pantie (panty?) raid in the Copper Country.
8/19/2008 9:32:46 AM by Anonymous
• The current Calumet Players building is the one on the far left.
8/19/2015 3:43:47 PM by Anonymous
• The above comment was obviously written by someone who was pro-union and anti-management. Although protecting property and other worker's right to work" is probably a more accurate description."
8/19/2015 3:47:27 PM by Anonymous
• This was a branch office of the Merchant's and Miner's Bank at the time this picture was taken (early 1960's judging by the pickup truck)
8/19/2015 3:54:19 PM by Anonymous
• The title of this photo should be changed: this is the old swing bridge, not the lift bridge.
8/2/2012 9:37:21 AM by Anonymous
• Name:Michele Aksten-Cox: Dr Fred Jeffers was my great great uncle. His brother, Donald Jeffers was my grandfather . Fred was thought very highly of by my grandfather and had a very wonderful established life in the Upper Peninnsula, Michigan. Please contact me if you would like additional information. My email is drcox7305@att.net.
8/2/2016 ; 11:11:38PM by Anonymous
• This photo was taken facing west on Front Street in Hancock.The building on the left is the Exley building that burned down around 1977.The fire was so hot that it melted the plactic sign of the store across the street.
8/20/2009 6:30:37 PM by Anonymous
Name:Skip Meier
MTU Class of:
Vessel assisting the MORELAND stern is the Reid wrecking tug MANISTIQUE September 1, 1911.The Reids busied themselves and finally succeeded in raising the after portion of the steamer, a section a little over 200 feet in length, containing the boilers, engines and other valuable machinery. This was towed into Portage Lake through the upper entrance September 1, 1911""
8/20/2011 2:22:27 AM by Anonymous
• But Ford pulled up Pequaming's tracks in 1935?
8/20/2011 2:34:48 AM by Anonymous
• This is the Jacobsville lighthouse at the South Entry with the Jacobsville Sandstone Quarry loading dock.
8/20/2012 11:37:33 PM by Anonymous
• Children were buried in the white coffins and adults were buried in the black coffins.
8/21/2011 1:19:52 AM by Anonymous
• Gathered here were Louis Longpre, Yalmer Makela, Ed Laurn, Norbert Kahn and his wife Jean, all of Hancock; Fred Rose, Ted Holmes, Ralph Engman of Dollar Bay; John Greiner of Skanee; Walter and Roy Koski of Aura; August Rintala, Earl and Sherwood Rintala of Houghton Canal; Charles Koski of Heinola; Dr. John W. Nara of Chassell; Sg. Larry DeBlasio, Paul Swift, Paul LaBine of Houghton, Jim Tollefson of L'Anse; Bill Kolehmainen of Toivola, Bill Brinkman of Redridge, Raymond Durocher of Freda, Henry Guibault of Houghton, and Ron Vuckson and Arnie Johnson, students at Tech.(Daily Mining Gazette article, Tuesday, March 11, 1958, page 7)
8/22/2007 1:09:08 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• On hand to greet the train and coaches were businessmen, press, radio and industrialists, about 25 of whom took the trip to Chicago to note the initial run and to discuss with railroad officials continued service to Calumet, the northern terminus. Among those present or aboard the train are these from left. Fred J. Paulson, Hancock Chief of Police; Gervase Murphy, president of the U. P. Development Bureau; Edgar Johnson, president of M&M Bank in Calumet; Ted Rogers, Keweenaw Sheriff; William Thielman, Earl Norden, Michael Strucel, Calumet Village Clerk; Vincent Dranda. Bill Veeser, assistant to the president of U. P. Power; Ray Smith, Houghton County Sheriff: Pete Baudino, president of Calumet Chamber of Commerce; William Link. Hancock Mayor Leonard Lahti; Gabriel Chopp. Attorney Donald MacQueen: Joseph Kline, president of Laurium: J. J. Heikkinen, president of the Hancock Chamber and Marty O'Connor of the Houghton Association of Commerce. At far right is the Gazette's Earl J. Gagnon, at far left is Fred Welch of the Houghton Fire Deparment.(Daily Mining Gazette article - Tuesday, March 11, 1958, page 1)
8/22/2007 1:22:43 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Description is taken verbatim from the Daily Mining Gazette. Correct spelling is MacNaughton Cup, named for James MacNaughton former president of the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company.
8/22/2007 9:34:51 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Photo includes National Championship trophy, MacNaughton Cup and another trophy.
8/22/2007 9:36:45 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Where is/was Carroll's Foundy?
8/22/2010 2:47:42 PM by Anonymous
• This is definitely the Finnish National Lutheran Church on 8th and Oak in Calumet - the Norwegian Lutheran Church is on 7th and Oak - Jeremiah Mason
8/23/2006 9:18:45 PM by Anonymous
• This negative seems to have been reversed when it was scanned - Jeremiah Mason
8/23/2006 9:20:34 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this is the National Lutheran church on Eighth Street in Calumet.
8/23/2007 3:27:11 PM by Anonymous
• In front of photo is trapper Warner Jutila, left, of Jacobsville, who came with six beaver pelts and an otter. He got less than $100. In 1947 he'd receive $280. At right is Ivar Heikkinen of Star Route, Pelkie. He had seven beaver and an otter. Together with a companion, they had 15 beaver and an otter for which they received $71. In 1947 the sum would have been $640. The depressed market was due to decreased demand and imports from Siberia. Others in photo are from left, seated, Charles Palo, Lake Linden, Joel Kangas, Baltic and Walter F. Nelms, all three of the Michigan Department of Conservation; Waino Korri of Calumet, John F. Sullivan of Lake Linden, and Arnold Klatzky of Hancock, all three are buyers of furs. Standing at left is Earl Clarke, Houghton, vice president of Northern Michigan Sportsmen's Assn. These men gathered in the Houghton Fire Hall to tag and sell their pelts. (Daily Mining Gazette article, Saturday, April 26, 1958, page 7.)
8/23/2007 9:16:52 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• I was stationed at Grand Forks, ND, but my 1st Sargent, last name Curtis, was transferred to the Calumet Station in 1978. Anybody remember him?
8/23/2011 9:38:10 PM by Trafficligh
• The foundation for this water tower still exists just north of M38 and the trail crossing. (August, 2012)
8/23/2012 3:04:00 PM by Anonymous
• This photo dates to around 1870, possibly even a bit earlier. On the far left and partially obscured is St. Anne's Catholic Church. Nearer the middle of the photo, with several people about, is the Methodist Episcopal Church. Both churches opened in 1861 and survived the 1869 fire. The building seen between the two churches may be an early edition of St. Patrick's Hall. The large building on the right is the original Masonic Hall. And what may appear to be a gully running to the left of the buildings is actually Ravine Street.
8/23/2014 3:00:48 PM by John Haeussler
• This is the First Congregational Church at the southwest corner of Hancock and Tezcuco Streets that was dedicated in 1870. It burned down on March 7, 1917. The previous First Congregational Church, at the same site, burned down on April 11, 1869. See MS042-017-261-035 and -036 for additional views.
8/23/2014 3:06:34 PM by John Haeussler
• This is the First Congregational Church at the southwest corner of Hancock and Tezcuco Streets. It was dedicated in 1870 (the previous church having burned down in 1869) and this building was lost to fire on March 7, 1917. See MTU No Neg 2008-01-22-05 and MS042-017-261-035 for additional views.
8/23/2014 3:09:32 PM by John Haeussler
• This is the First Congregational Church at the southwest corner of Hancock and Tezcuco Streets. It was dedicated in 1870 (the previous church having burned down in 1869) and this building was lost to fire on March 7, 1917. See MTU No Neg 2008-01-22-05 and MS042-017-261-036 for additional views.
8/23/2014 3:10:10 PM by John Haeussler
• This is the First Congregational Church at the southwest corner of Hancock and Tezcuco Streets. It was dedicated in 1870 (the previous church having burned down in 1869) and this building was lost to fire on March 7, 1917. See MTU No Neg 2008-01-22-05 and MS042-017-261-035 and -036 for additional views.
8/23/2014 3:12:05 PM by John Haeussler
• The man on the left is Ed Cassette of Lake Linden. He worked at the Vertin Store for many years.
8/23/2015 3:54:39 PM by Anonymous
• Search for keywords salvation army" for other photos. In particular, here's a nice one of a group on the steps of this building:http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=602828#"
8/24/2006 8:09:50 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This building stood on the Northeast corner of Portland and 7th Street in Calumet. Sanborn fire insurance maps first note the building on page 4 of the December 1897 map for Red Jacket (it does not appear on the previous map done in September 1893). It is labeled as Salvation Army" in the Red Jacket maps for December 1897, September 1900, and May 1908. On the July 1917 Red Jacket map, it is labeled as "Salvation Army Barracks," but on the August 1928 map for Calumet it is labeled "Salvation Army Hall." The building does not appear on the July 1942 revised map for Calumet. There are also references to a "Swedish Salvation Army" building located on the East side of 5th Street (between Elm and Pine) on the September 1900 and May 1908 Sanborn maps for Red Jacket."
8/24/2006 8:17:01 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• It almost appears that the building is in disuse at the time of this photograph. The front doors look worn (and maybe open?) and the rainbow windows on the lower level appear to have some panes broken or missing.
8/24/2006 8:18:11 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Oops, Norwegian Lutheran is on 7th and Elm. JM
8/24/2006 9:43:46 AM by Anonymous
• It's beautiful. I collection in France coal miner's pictures. I have 15 000 french photo only on coal mines
8/24/2007 7:17:18 AM by Anonymous
• This is definately Pine street in Calumet. The large sandstone building on the right was owned by Martha Murphy in the 1980's and destroyed not long after. I remember passing newspapers on my friends Daily Mining Gazette route in the mid-1960's on Pine st. The two buildings, on the right, were connected at the second level so we didn't have to go outside to deliver several newspapers. I remember the very pungent odors of cooking as we walked the corridors with our load of papers.
8/24/2014 1:02:48 PM by Anonymous
• I was pretty sure that it occurred during my Sophomore year in the Spring. No I didn't participate, I was heavily involved with Track and Field, student council, student union board, and was pinned to a local student at Suomi College in Hancock. At any rate on attempting to pull up info the only references that came up on Google all gave U of Mich credit for the first such event in the State sometime in 1952. U of M got national coverage and a citation in Wikipedia. So I did a bit of digging in the Tech Lode archives with Erik (Nordberg)'s assistance and VOILA wa kari mashta, I found it. The report made Headlines in the Lode dated May 28, 1951, many months before the U of M accreditation. I couldn't begin to identify any of the Tech 14, one might have been Carl Fraidenburg, '54, but I'm not at all certain. Anyway it's newsworthy for the Alumni communications trivia in my humble opinion. Anytime MCM&T (MTU) can best UofM in anything has to be newsworthy. Hope to hear back from you, -- Bob Carnahan, Michigan Tech Class of 1953
8/25/2008 1:41:58 PM by Anonymous
• Bad news -- the issue of the Lode Bob Carnahan saw had a misprint on its front page. The issue is actually from May 28, 1952, not 1951. For whatever reason, only the front page carried the wrong year. The other printed pages in that same issue have the correct date. Still an interesting story, but not a gazump on the U of MaizeNbleu.
8/25/2008 1:43:50 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• If I remember right Wesley House was just across the street (to the west) from the Union. -- Gail Richter, Michigan Tech, Class of 1961
8/25/2008 1:46:32 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This scan was made from a small postcard-sized photograph in our photographic print file. The front of the card has Electric Park" written across one side, but the reverse side has "Freda" written on it. It is not clear which is correct."
8/25/2008 4:20:38 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This can't be Copper Range #29 because it still exists today. It appears to be #27 which was scrapped in 1955.
8/25/2012 2:55:25 PM by Anonymous
• A beautiful picture. I was happy to find it, I am certain a relative is buried in this cemetery. If this is also called Liminga, Slema is buried in Block c - Lot 19. Any info would be appreciated, perhaps someday I will be able to visit. She is the only record of Mastola's living in the region so, and I know much of their lives were spent in Michigan.Again thank you for the picture. Nancy--------Hello Nancy: A listing of graves in the Liminga on the Finnish Genealogy site at http://www.genealogia.fi/haudat/index4e.htm They show a Selma Mastola (1903-1939) buried in plot C 17Hope this helps. Erik Nordberg, MTU Archives
8/26/2006 10:20:45 AM by Anonymous
• Hancock mine #2 shaft is in background.
8/26/2013 9:36:21 AM by Anonymous
• This is the Study Hall at the Calumet High School. It has been lovingly restored and the artwork, stage, piano, statue, and grandfather clock all still exist, remarkably.
8/26/2014 3:11:14 AM by Anonymous
• I believe this photo was just north of 6th and Elm in Calumet. The building to the far right in the photo I believe is currently the Calumet Players building', which is kitty corner to the Calumet Opera House.
8/26/2014 3:14:46 AM by Anonymous
• Calumet Ave just north of the Calumet High School. Mine street in the background.
8/26/2014 3:51:27 AM by Anonymous
• Building to the far left is the YMCA building.
8/26/2014 3:57:38 AM by Anonymous
• Yes. YMCA building in Calumet. Next door is the Union Building, across 5th Street is St Anne's.
8/26/2014 4:07:44 AM by Anonymous
• It looks like there's a string on different coloured lights across the top of the street. You don't see those much anymore. Boyne Falls in the L.P. is the only place I know of off hand that still does that.
8/27/2011 2:00:43 PM by Trafficligh
• The individual on the right is Earl Hebert (1902-1991), former Michigan legislator.
8/27/2011 5:24:53 PM by Anonymous
• Salvaged stern from the steamer William C. Moreland in the Portage Ship Canal that had foundered on Sawtooth Reef near Eagle River on October 18, 1910. Picture date would be after tow into the Canal on September 1st, 1911. She laid beached in the Canal until towed out September 4th, 1912 by the Reid tug Manistique lashed to her side bound for Detroit. Note: the title Mooreland is misspelled, should be Moreland.
8/29/2011 5:17:33 PM by Anonymous
• Note: the title Mooreland is misspelled, should be Moreland.
8/29/2011 5:18:57 PM by Anonymous
• William C. Moreland with broken hull (since grounding on October 18 the previous year) on Sawtooth Reef 6-21-1911.
8/29/2011 5:28:27 PM by Anonymous
• The Reid wrecking tug Manistique working on the steamer William C. Moreland grounded on Sawtooth Reef since October 18, 1910. Date of the picture should be summer of 1911 when Reid was the sole salvager on the job and the wood in scene is being used to bulkhead each of the three sections that the hull was broken into. This predates the unsuccessful tow of August 24th when the midsection and bow broke off and it was decided to focus on the stern.
8/29/2011 5:48:04 PM by Anonymous
• Moreland misspelled in description and on the picture-this is the William C Moreland on Sawtooth Reef
8/29/2011 6:06:33 PM by Anonymous
• Reid wrecking tugs Manistique (left) and Sarnia City making way out to William C Moreland stranded on Sawtooth Reef
8/29/2011 6:10:20 PM by Anonymous
• On Sawtooth Reef near Eagle River-Reid wrecker Manistique (right) and Sarnia City (left)
8/29/2011 6:12:31 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is looking south toward the Winona Road/Copper Range Railroad grade crossing. The road can be seen crossing the tracks between the third and fourth distant telephone poles.
8/3/2007 12:59:16 PM by 630J1
• The photo is looking south at Toivola, Michigan. The Toivola 66" Service and Lunch can be seen on the right, along with Wuorinen's Store, the post office and highway M-26."
8/3/2007 1:02:42 PM by 630J1
• This photo was taken at Mill-Mine Junction - looking south. Double locomotives are seen at the south end of the wye.
8/3/2007 1:06:20 PM by 630J1
Name:Barb Koski
MTU Class of:
This is David Kingston's sawmill in early 1900's in Copper Harbor. Now the site of Jamsen Fish Market and Isle Royale Queen dock. Confirmed by Geo. Nousiainen
8/3/2015 4:05:45 AM by Anonymous
• Yes, this is the second location of the Portage Ship Canal US Life-Saving Service. North Entry.
8/31/2012 5:04:59 PM by Anonymous
Name:Robert Oom
MTU Class of:
This a narrow gauge locomotive (3 ft. gauge) that also served on the line to Lac LaBelle.
8/31/2014 2:04:17 PM by Anonymous
Name:Robert Oom
MTU Class of:
This is the DSS&A RR Nestoria depot. The tracks in the foreground went to Calumet and those behind the depot went to Duluth. The foundation remains today as well as some of the tracks now operated by Canadian National.
8/31/2014 2:14:03 PM by Anonymous
Name:Robert Oom
MTU Class of:
This is the DSS&A RR depot in Ewen, MI. An addition has been added on to the original building on the right hand side (East) to provide sleeping accommodations for RR crews. Previously they stayed in the hotel pictured behind the depot. Unfortunately the depot has been torn down.
8/31/2014 2:21:44 PM by Anonymous
Name:Robert Oom
MTU Class of:
This is the DSS&A RR depot in Bergland, MI which has been torn down.
8/31/2014 2:23:29 PM by Anonymous
Name:Robert Oom
MTU Class of:
This is another view of the DSS&A RR depot in Ewen, MI. The building and railroad tracks are gone today but the building behind the depot remains.
8/31/2014 2:25:48 PM by Anonymous
• This cannot be 1910 because the hall was significantly modified in 1900 when the Opera house was constructed (attached to this original structure). This picture has to be from between the years 1886 and 1900.
8/4/2014 3:46:11 PM by Anonymous
Name:wooden shoe
MTU Class of:
I was in ops from April of 62 through November of 63 and recall the UFO as the crew I worked with was on duty. Nick Crain was also in ops and I think Dobson was working computer mt
8/4/2015 3:44:40 PM by Anonymous
Name:woodenshoe
MTU Class of:
There were several very interesting observations during that time period,I worked in ops and tracked one of the events. Dick Dobson was working in computer maintenance. Nick Crain also worked in ops and still has a cabin at Lake Medora
8/5/2015 1:42:19 PM by Anonymous
• This is definitely Rockland.
8/6/2012 9:28:09 AM by Anonymous
Name:Ron Studer
MTU Class of:1971
This structure was built in 1887 and expanded in 1899 to become the Quincy No.7 Shaft/Rockhouse. Two previous rockhouses on this site (1873,1880) were destroyed by fire.
8/6/2013 10:54:26 AM by Anonymous
• This photo was taken immediately after the April 11, 1869 fire. The back of the Franklin Street School is in the foreground. The small building on the far right housed the main ore dump at the end of Quincy's tramway. It fed directly to the stamp mill, just to the left of it. Houghton is seen in the distance across Portage Lake. Joseph Pinten is credited as the photographer. He operated J. Pinten & Bro., a hardware store and photography studio, on Tezcuco Street beginning around 1875.
8/6/2014 10:10:28 AM by John Haeussler
• This is the southwest corner of Hancock and Tezcuco Streets. Three churches formerly stood at this site: a united Christian church, moved to Houghton in 1861; the First Congregational Church, lost to fire in 1869; and the (second) First Congregational Church, lost to fire in 1917. Vollwerth's have occupied the corner for 90+ years and the company will be celebrating its centennial in 2015.
8/6/2014 10:18:00 AM by John Haeussler
• This is the southeast corner of Hancock and Tezcuco Streets, where Gartner's was located before its long run on Quincy Street's 100 block. Prior to Gartner's occupancy in the 1880s and 1890s, it probably was the site of A.J. Scott's first drug store before Scott moved to Quincy Street's 200 block. Jacob Gartner's son Isadore is fifth from the left in this photo.
8/6/2014 10:28:56 AM by John Haeussler
• This photo shows the eastern side of Tezcuco Street from Hancock Street up to Quincy Street. Evert and Dollinger's Milwaukee House (with Saloon 8) is at the northeast corner of Hancock and Tezcuco. At the north end of the block we get a glimpse of William Kerredge's hardware store, part of the Copper Country Community Arts Center today. The front of Edward Perso's dry goods store is also visible on the northeast corner of Quincy and Tezcuco. The balcony seen to the far left is that of the Lake View House, probably known as the International Hotel at the time this photo was taken.
8/6/2014 10:41:22 AM by John Haeussler
• This view looks north after the 1869 fire. The building standing on the left is the Franklin Street School. Book Concern Printers is near that spot today. The Quincy Mining Company's tramway is on the right heading down to their stamp mill on Portage Lake. I believe that the street in the foreground is Quincy Street, but I'm not certain.
8/6/2014 9:26:57 AM by John Haeussler
• Members of the Sigma Rho fraternity at Michigan Tech, in an eight-month project, have succeeded in mining out" an 11-ton steam hoist from the depths of the Copper Falls mine in Keweenaw County. Abandoned when the mine closed after a half century of productive operations, the hoist was greased and laid to rest in 1892.Working an estimated total of 3,000 man-hours from early October, 1954 until the latter part of May, 1955, the fraternity group went at the project in a manner not too dissimilar from an actual mining operation.Robert "Speed" Burns, a graduate student in geology at MTU came across the hoist and it was he who came up with the idea of taking out the hoist. Along with Dr. Joseph P. Dobell, professor of geology, he interested members of Sigma Rho in tackling the project.The 11-ton hoist was located 900 feet below the surface. The only access to it was through an air ventilation adit that intersected the main Owls Creek shaft at the second level. The shaft was cut into the ground at a 27 to 30 degree angle.The plan was to dismantle the hoist and take it up piece by piece. There was no skip handy and only about 200 feet of intermittent track remained in the shaft. In order to bring the parts up, it was necessary to construct a skip and lay 600 feet of track.The work crew generally included five to ten men, working two or three days a week. Professor Dobell was the job supervisor while George Sinko, graduating senior from Detroit, acted as co-ordinator of the students. He was president of the fraternity. [Condensed from a Daily Mining Gazette Green Sheet article, May 26, 1956 edition.] "
8/7/2008 1:09:40 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• THE GEORGE GIPP ALL-AMERICAN TROPHY "Awarded annually to the graduating senior of Calumet High School to encourage a high standard of excellence in scholarship, athletics and sportsmanship" My father, Elwood Lohela, (CHS) was the first George Gipp All-American Trophy winner in 1934. His younger brother, my uncle, Arvo Lohela (CHS) was the fourth winner (1937) of the award. Their names are inscribed on the plaque in the park. Elwood's grandchildren have all seen the park and plaque where their grandfather's name is inscribed. They have learned through their parents of Elwood's love for the Copper Country and his Finnish heritage. Elwood unfortunately never saw his grandchildren (5). He passed away at age 51 in 1968. Thank you to those who keep the park looking so nice. It is a place we visit whenever we make it back to the area and the "camp" on Portage Lake. "-- Mari Lohela, as posted to the Pasty Cam, August 5, 2008http://www.pasty.com/discus/messages/3941/4503.html"
8/7/2008 1:20:03 PM by Anonymous
• The Norwegian text Til salg 200 meter stranline og land" is translated "For sale 200 meter shoreline and land"."
8/7/2008 4:47:02 AM by Anonymous
• Arctic fox trap.
8/7/2008 4:47:47 AM by Anonymous
• Looks like the graves on what you refer to as Advent Point, today called Hotellnesset (Hotel Point). Today the horse yard lies next to these graves. Advent bay in the background.
8/7/2008 5:04:47 AM by Anonymous
• Ref. Comments 3/6/11. I was stationed at Calumet AFS during a similar time period. My duties included: DMCC, FPS-64, FPS-6, also lived with wife at the time in Kearsarge. We had a faulty wave-guide on the FPS-64, RF radiation exposure to crew. I vividly recall the incident you mentioned and the aftermath the next day. I was flown to KI Sawyer AFB on occasional to report to NORAD. I was then transferred to Campion AFS Alaska. I now live on the Gulf Coast of Florida and do remember well the Copper Country. the people, agates & smelt. Very fond memories, but what a time we had during the Cold War", a very delicate period during our history "
8/7/2011 10:41:31 PM by Anonymous
• MY dad is in this! Bottom right. He was with the dept for 37 years! Retired as chief. -- Kathy Ceno
8/7/2011 6:54:12 PM by Anonymous
• This photo was taken shortly after the April 11, 1869 fire that devastated Hancock. At the far right is St. Anne's Catholic Church on the northeast corner of Quincy and Ravine Streets. The rectory and school are behind the church. Following the fence around to Franklin Street, the good-sized building near the center of the image housed the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Louis (MO) Province, who served in the parish. MS042-999-T-449 is another glass plate of this image.
8/7/2014 10:12:27 AM by John Haeussler
• This photo was taken when the Kerredge Theatre was in its infancy. The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church is seen to the left. Between the church and theatre, the site of the Quincy tramway is now a footpath on the hill. The advertising sign in front of the church (soon to be the site of the Scott Hotel) promotes a Saturday, April 23rd event which leads me to believe that this photo was taken in 1904.
8/7/2014 10:23:27 AM by John Haeussler
• This is one of my favorite Hancock images. In addition to the magnificent Scott Hotel and Kerredge Theatre it offers a reasonably good view of the (second) Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church behind the hotel with houses and mining buildings further up the hill. Through the trees on the far right you can make out the new First Congregational Church and some East Hancock homes. At the far left is the side of the Wright Block. The Houghton County Traction Company's streetcar tracks are visible on the street with the power lines overhead. The people on the streets and the classic cars enhance this beautiful image.
8/7/2014 10:36:35 AM by John Haeussler
• 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
• The Superior Savings Bank opened here, the southwest corner of Quincy and Reservation Streets, in 1890. This image likely dates to or near that year. See MTU Neg 00427 for a good view of what the building looked like before being occupied by the bank. This building was replaced by the Wright Block in 1900, which housed both the bank and Jacob Gartner's department store.
8/7/2014 10:54:32 AM by John Haeussler
• Jacob Gartner (middle, wearing vest) stands with others in front of Gartner's new Quincy Street location in the early 1900s. The store remained in the Gartner-Kahn-Reiss family for more than a century.
8/7/2014 11:01:12 AM by John Haeussler
• This view looks west down Quincy Street. The photo was probably taken in 1889 as the steeples of St. Patrick's Catholic Church (dedicated in 1889 after several years of construction) and St. Anne's Catholic Church (demolished later in 1889) are both seen in the distance. Partially visible on the far right is Ben Wieder's harness shop. The next building down housed, among other things, George H. Nichols pharmacy. See MS042-999-T-019 for a front view of it. The third building on the right is Edward Ryan's general store. Across the street from Ryan's (third building from the left) is Peter Ruppe & Sons general store. Although the facades are different, most of the buildings seen here on Quincy Street's 100 block still stand today.
8/7/2014 11:12:51 AM by John Haeussler
• This photo is from around 1890. George H. Nichols's pharmacy occupied the lower left side of the building with Edward Waara's watchmaker shop on the right. The middle door leads to Michael Finn's second floor office. Finn was Hancock's village clerk/recorder from 1867 to 1903 and city clerk in 1903-04. His office frequently served as the village hall until City Hall was opened in 1899.
8/7/2014 11:18:50 AM by John Haeussler
• It appears that the Methodist Church is the far right building. The one on the left appears to be the Catholic Church (Church of the Assumption). No doubt it is a school in between.
8/7/2015 11:24:51 AM by Anonymous
• This was originally the doctor's house. Before the Dyni family lived here, one of their daughters worked as a housekeeper for the doctor and then worked with him and translated for Finnish immigrants who did not speak English.
8/8/2013 2:46:11 PM by Anonymous
• I was part of the Fund raising initiative back in 1984 - and I am pictured in the photo (all the way to the right -young lady with the button and big smile). It sure was a lot of fun! -- Michelle Christensen
8/9/2009 5:54:01 PM by Anonymous
• Unidentified second person is Prof. Eric Bourdo -- Leslie Reid, MTU Class of 1951 (forestry)
8/9/2009 7:45:50 PM by Anonymous
• This is the waiting room at the C&H Hospital in Calumet. - Jeremiah Mason
8/9/2010 3:20:03 PM by Anonymous
• I believe this is the new Hancock Congregational Church, no longer standing. It was on the northwest corner of Quincy and Dunstan Streets, next to the Kerredge Theater. - Jeremiah Mason
8/9/2010 3:23:37 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000,2008
The outdoor fireplace" referred to is actually the twin fireplace and chimney of a fourth cabin for the Married Enlisted Men's Quarters. The single-log construction of the cabins did not survive many of Keqweenaw's winters, and all 4 cabins were rebuilt. They were all rebuilt AROUND the original fireplaces and chimneys. If you look at the chimney, it is whitewashed on the first floor, then plane brick in the upstairs loft , and then white again above the roofline, shown by the inverted V of white on the face of the chimney. This photograph goes well with the previous one with a woman nonchalantly cooking over one of the fireplaces without the rest of the building present."
9/1/2011 3:15:54 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000,2008
This aerial photograph shows the Fort BEFORE the reconstruction of the Guardhouse in the lower right corner of the Fort, and the Blacksmith Shop in front of the Bakery left center. It also shows a beach" on Lake Fanny Hooe, BEFORE the construction of the footbridge and fish weir that raised the Lake's level approximately 12-14 inches."
9/1/2011 3:22:41 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
We Have an 'original' of this at the Fort with the handwritten scrawl 1916" on the bottom left. On the bottom right of the photograph is embossed "Forster's-Calumet,Mich.""
9/1/2011 3:31:27 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
I doubt if the 1844 date of this picture is correct, if indeed it was taken by A.F. Glaza. i am reading his Obituary which states he was born in Bay City in 1892, served at Eagle Harbor in 1912, and then again from 1921 to 1929. This is a much more likely date for the photograph. The Fort itself was built in 1844, so that may be what the date is referring to.
9/1/2011 3:49:24 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
These are the four Married Enlisted Men's cabins. This is old, BEFORE they fell down as the current structures ALL had to be rebuilt, the latest being in the 1990's.
9/1/2011 3:51:40 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dee (Yotti) Paoli
MTU Class of:
The multi colored, large building behind the front building was a 4 room school house that I attended in 1960-1967.
9/1/2014 9:08:27 PM by Anonymous
• Do you have names of the miners killed in this fire. I believe my great grandfather, Isaac Harri was one of them. Neil Harri nharri@northpines.net
9/10/2007 10:57:03 PM by Anonymous
• Detail A MS015-2-3 Historic American Engineering Record same as MTU Neg 02694
9/10/2008 10:48:34 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Same as MS015-MI-2-10 Historic American Engineering Record
9/10/2008 12:49:45 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Yes you are almost right, that building on the left burned to the ground during the summer of 1976. I was attending forestry summer camp that year. We were having a party at the Phi Kappa Tau house where I was living. Smoke from the fire made it that far west, we left the house to track the smoke and made it to the fire location by following the smoke. We watched Hancock and Houghton's finest try to contain the fire. They actually almost lost a bunch of firefighters when the front of the building collapsed into the street. Yes, I do rememebr that night.
9/10/2010 10:08:31 AM by Anonymous
Name:John Sullivan
MTU Class of:1974
If this is indeed the first Calumet, MI (Red Jacket) Village Fire Station it would be 1875-1886 as a new Fire Station was build in 1886 on Elm Street as a part of the new Town Hall and again in 1898 as the new single purpose Fire Station now being used as the Copper Country Firefighters History Museum. In 1964 the Fire Department was moved back to the Elm Street side of the Town Hall which had its fascia changed in 1900 when the Calumet Theatre building was built next to the 1886 Town Hall building.
9/10/2014 12:36:54 PM by Anonymous
• This image appears to be reversed from the actual geography. The peninsula at the left center with the light keepers house (white dot) is to the north east of the harbor while the peninsula on the right is actually Porters Island which is to the west of the harbor entrance. In this year of low water (2007) on Lake Superior, Porters Island is now joined with the mainland. When ever this photo was taken, Porters Island would have been a true island and the view from Brockway Nose is to the northeast.
9/11/2007 11:00:25 PM by Anonymous
• This image is reversed from the actual geography of Copper Harbor. The view from Brockway Nose is to the east northeast and Lake Fanny Hooe should be to the right of Copper Harbor. Porters Island shows clearly in the picture and is on the western side of the entrance to Copper Harbor.
9/11/2007 11:03:33 PM by Anonymous
• Men's Basketball vs. Northern, 1985-1986, is included on the negative strip for this image.
9/11/2010 9:12:23 AM by Anonymous
• Minerals and Materials, X-ray Diffusion, 01-1999, is written on the negative strip.
9/11/2010 9:18:40 AM by Anonymous
• The awning-ed building is the lodge building and the one with the three window across three stories high is the old YMCA building . The sandstone building is St. Anne's.
9/11/2014 6:32:22 PM by Anonymous
• Image is reversed. Stampmill ruins and the mill's boiler stack shoud be left of the other structures that are nearer to the base of the cliff.
9/12/2006 5:58:39 PM by Anonymous
• Image is reversed. Shafthouse(far building at base of cliff) should be to the right of boh the rockslide from the top of the cliff and the stampmill (near, long industrial building with boiler stack).
9/12/2006 6:20:14 PM by Anonymous
• Larry Lankton's book _Cradle to grave : life, work, and death at the Lake Superior copper mines_ (New York : Oxford University Press, 1991) gives a description of this fire on pages 122-124. He indicates that the fire started on September 7, 1895.The annual Mine Inspector's Report for Houghton County for the year ending September 30, 1895 has a long description of this accident as well. It lists a total of 30 men who died:Captain Richard Trembath, Richard Bickle, Thomas Curtis, Alexander Daniel, Richard Grenfell, James Williams, Frank Lander Jr., Michael Johnson, Isaac Harrio, Peter Strandgaard, John Matson, Andrew Rosinski, Michael Schultz, Joseph Rasec, Steve Oriski, Michael Slotta, Joseph Slotta, Mike Voak, Vene Verbenz, Steve Ristivick, Fred C. Peardon, John Cudlip, William Bryant, Barney Hellner, James D. Harrington, Anton Zeswick, William H. Donald, Robert Johns, Peter Malmstrom, and Walter Dahl.
9/12/2007 8:24:15 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Larry Lankton's book _Cradle to grave : life, work, and death at the Lake Superior copper mines_ (New York : Oxford University Press, 1991) gives a description of this fire on pages 122-124. He indicates that the fire started on September 7, 1895.The annual Mine Inspector's Report for Houghton County for the year ending September 30, 1895 has a long description of this accident as well. It lists a total of 30 men who died:Captain Richard Trembath, Richard Bickle, Thomas Curtis, Alexander Daniel, Richard Grenfell, James Williams, Frank Lander Jr., Michael Johnson, Isaac Harrio, Peter Strandgaard, John Matson, Andrew Rosinski, Michael Schultz, Joseph Rasec, Steve Oriski, Michael Slotta, Joseph Slotta, Mike Voak, Vene Verbenz, Steve Ristivick, Fred C. Peardon, John Cudlip, William Bryant, Barney Hellner, James D. Harrington, Anton Zeswick, William H. Donald, Robert Johns, Peter Malmstrom, and Walter Dahl.
9/12/2007 8:24:33 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• Person in the yard cutting wood in my uncle Chassell Sampson, not Mr. Stetter.
9/13/2009 8:30:28 PM by Anonymous
• Might this be the Frankln School just north of the Quincy mine on us41?It is now torn down.
9/13/2011 11:54:53 PM by Anonymous
Name:Douglas Palosaari
MTU Class of:1971
This picture would be pre-1960. I started to work in their restaurant at age 12 and a half as a dishwasher. At the time I worked there, there, the restaurant and kitchen were in an extension to the right of the building.
9/13/2011 3:51:35 PM by Anonymous
Name:Dominic Miglio
MTU Class of:
HI...My Grandparents lived on Portland st. Down the block from St Marys The were also married at St Marys November 20th 1909
9/13/2011 6:34:33 PM by Anonymous
• This image dates to the second half of the 1890s. St. Patrick's Catholic Church (1889) towers over downtown Hancock. St. Patrick's School, opened in 1894, is seen adjacent to the back corner of the church. The school was on the southeast corner of Franklin and Ravine Streets. The rectory is seen on the Quincy Street side of the school. All of these St. Patrick's buildings were lost to fire on May 6, 1937. The second swing bridge (c. 1895) crossing Portage Lake is seen in the distance. Many other classic Hancock structures - the Methodist Episcopal Church, the (second) First Congregational Church, the original fire hall, the Northwestern Hotel, the Scott Block, etc - are identifiable in this photo, which I'd guess was taken by John T. Reeder, not Isler. See MS042-T-471 for a great comparison view from 1888-89.
9/13/2014 10:10:22 PM by John Haeussler
• This is an early photo of Hancock High School, opened in 1923. Central Primary School is on the left.
9/13/2014 10:41:19 PM by John Haeussler
• In the background is the Hancock Mine No. 2 shaft-rockhouse. Some Elevation Street homes are also seen.
9/13/2014 10:55:03 PM by John Haeussler
• This is the first bridge, opened in 1876, connecting Hancock and Houghton over Portage Lake. This view looks toward Hancock. Front Street and the Quincy Mine tramway are both visible to the left of the bridge.
9/13/2014 11:14:20 PM by John Haeussler
• This photo of the first swing bridge was taken after the lower level rail lines were added in 1886. It's also a nice view of the Ripley waterfront east of the bridge.
9/13/2014 11:18:22 PM by John Haeussler
• This photo of the second swing bridge was taken after the inception of the Houghton County Traction Company's streetcar service in 1900 and prior to the Northern Wave crash in 1905. The pedestrians in the foreground are on Front Street in Hancock.
9/13/2014 11:23:13 PM by John Haeussler
• From the report of the chief of engineers, U.S. Army: The draw span of the Houghton-Hancock bridge was wrecked April 15, 1905, by the steamer Northern Wave, which struck the bridge while it was being swung and threw the span over on its side, entirely blocking both channels. I visited the site at once and brought about an arrangement by which the two railroad companies, which operate the bridge, entered into contract, April 18, with the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company to remove the wreck, and work began immediately. The south opening was cleared and open to navigation April 25. The remainder of the wrecked bridge was removed by May 25, and a locomotive tender and flat car loaded with rails, which had fallen through a temporary ponton bridge on April 17, were removed from the north channel by June 8.""
9/13/2014 11:32:59 PM by John Haeussler
• This is the post-1905 swing section.
9/13/2014 11:36:06 PM by John Haeussler
• The Hancock Naval Reserve aboard the USS Yantic. An A.A. Tillman and Co. warehouse and other buildings are seen on the waterfront.
9/13/2014 11:45:34 PM by John Haeussler
• A Hancock Naval Reserve dreadnought is in the lake and the view of Hancock extends from the Scott Hotel (west) to Temple Jacob (east).
9/13/2014 11:48:24 PM by John Haeussler
• This is the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hancock, behind the Scott (Hotel) Building. I'm not familiar with the name Trinity Lutheran Church. The church, built in 1889, was struck by lighting on August 28, 1896, killing assistant pastor Jooseppi Riippa. The church building was repaired following this damage and it later burned down on March 14, 1909. A new Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church was dedicated on the site in 1910. It was later renamed St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church and merged with the Salem (formerly Swedish) Lutheran Church to form Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. The 1910 church built on the site shown in this photo still stands and is currently a seasonal antiques store.
9/13/2014 9:38:50 PM by John Haeussler
• This wonderful image dates to 1888 or 1889. The interior of Hancock's St. Patrick's Catholic Church, dominant in the foreground, was completed that winter and the building dedication was held on March 17, 1889. Adjacent to St. Patrick's in the bottom right corner of this image is St. Anne's Catholic Church with it's rectory behind it. These buildings, on the northeast corner of Quincy and Ravine Streets, were demolished later in 1889. I don't know when the exterior of St. Patrick's was completed but it's rare to find an image as this showing both St. Patrick's and St. Anne's. The Houghton County Courthouse, completed in 1887, looms large in the distance. The detail in the high resolution version of this image is amazing. Adolph Isler was the photographer and this is one of his best, in my opinion.
9/13/2014 9:55:17 PM by John Haeussler
• This photo was probably taken in 1889. The First National Bank (built in 1888 at the corner of Quincy and Reservation Streets), St. Patrick's Catholic Church (dedicated in 1889), and the steeple of St. Anne's Catholic Church (demolished in 1889) are all visible. It also appears that the Mineral Range passenger depot (which later became Lake View Station) is under construction at the base of Tezcuco Street. There's lots of great Hancock detail in this image.
9/14/2014 12:09:19 AM by John Haeussler
• This building is also known as the Memorial Union Building, or MUB.
9/15/2010 2:07:06 PM by Anonymous
• This building is also known as the Memorial Union Building, or MUB.
9/15/2010 2:07:14 PM by Anonymous
• I believe that is Mr. Gordon Barkell holding the basketball and head coach Mike Obradovich.
9/15/2010 8:39:35 PM by Anonymous
• This photo is pre-1925 as the ship had a second stack added during it's shipyard rebuild in 1924-25
9/15/2015 2:38:28 PM by RogerHewlett
• St Paul the Apostle Church on 8th Street Calumet. Once known at St. Jospeh's.
9/16/2010 2:51:12 PM by Anonymous
• The Joe M. might be Joe Mishica. He was a teacher in Calumet at one time.
9/16/2010 2:55:40 PM by Anonymous
• John Vertin and employee Ed Cassette (not sure of spelling) of Lake Linden.
9/16/2010 2:57:40 PM by Anonymous
• This picture was taken between 1929 when the Washington (Elementary at the time) school was built and 1949 when the Calumet Congregational church burned down (church is still visible on the corner of Calumet Ave and Red Jacket Rd in this pic.).
9/16/2014 9:17:14 AM by Anonymous
• Originally the New Northwestern hotel.
9/17/2014 8:39:43 PM by Anonymous
• Ms. Sincock Roberts is a relative on my father side. I had the privilege of meeting her and was always impressed by her spirit and determination. She would tell her Titanic tale and I always came away that feeling she had a fierce inner strength. Great lady.
9/17/2016 ; 9:56:36PM by Anonymous
• This was purchased and rehabbed for use by UPPCO.
9/18/2009 2:40:44 PM by Anonymous
• This is definitely a power distribution panel, one of about a dozen in the basement of Fisher. Most of these have been removed but there is still at least one left (Fall 2014). They were used like an operators switch board to send power and signals to the student work stations using jumper wires. The main DC supply for all the labs was an AC to DC converter - an AC motor which drove a DC generator. The standing man closely resembles other photos I have of Prof. Longacre. One of the analog computer set-ups can be seen on page 128 of the Tech Centenial book. These were not wall mounted. Also in that photo is Prof. McMillan, who has a full head of hair. The original description appears to be correct.
9/18/2014 11:30:46 AM by Anonymous
• Ringling Bros. Circus played Hancock, Michigan, on Friday, July 20, 1900. This appears to tally with the date on the circus poster on the wall just right of center. Information from Circus World Museum's archives.Erin Foley
9/19/2007 12:57:40 PM by Erin Foley
• Now that's a load of beer! Makes you wonder how in the world they stacked it like that and got it to where it was going without breaking most of the bottles.My Grandfather, Richard Harry, once worked at the Bosch Brewery in the early 1900's.
9/19/2008 1:54:51 PM by Anonymous
• This is the same as the scan for MTU Neg 05289.
9/20/2007 4:01:10 PM by Anonymous
• This is the same as the scan for MS042-019-127
9/20/2007 4:01:38 PM by Anonymous
• I have seen this identified as Mill Mine Junction (1 mile north of South Range).
9/20/2011 10:02:30 PM by Anonymous
• possible it was used at the calumet mine or in the area of keweenaw.
9/21/2010 8:27:52 PM by Anonymous
• This looks like the curve just east of Mill Mine Junction. The train would be coming from Atlantic Mine. Northern Hardwoods would be off the photo to the right. The view in the photo to the right of the train would be upper Atlantic Mine, with the Canal and Houghton/Hancock beyond.
9/21/2011 1:21:59 PM by Anonymous
• This house still exists (it's white now). it's on the corner of Agent street and Mine street. Mine street actually runs between this house and the boiler house (gone now)to the left it's just difficult to see due to the snow. MacNaughton's house would have been right behind where the photographer was standing when this was taken. This is also in the vicinity of #6 Hecla shaft.
9/21/2014 3:55:43 PM by Anonymous
• This picture is from between 1887 and 1898 as the C&H Library building hadn't been built yet but the original C&H Admin building was (minus the latter addition). Notice the original (wooden) Washington school in the foreground but the HS wasn't built yet (1907). Also notice that School street went all the way to Mine street in those days.
9/21/2014 4:26:04 PM by Anonymous
• Very few trees anywhere as the wood was used in the smelting operations often substituted for coal if the ships did not come in - that along with the timber used inside the mines.
9/22/2009 8:14:11 PM by rusticterry
• I believe this home no longer exists as it didn't survive the flames of fire just a few years ago.
9/22/2009 8:23:36 PM by rusticterry
• Note the spelling of Hubbell is wrong on the photograph.
9/22/2009 8:28:28 PM by Anonymous
• This is the old Douglass House that Henry Hobart and friends visited and stayed at the night of Dec. 23, 1863 as depicted in the wonderful book Copper Country Journal by Philip P. Mason ( a must read for all Keewanaw history fans).
9/22/2009 8:47:12 PM by Anonymous
• It looks to me as if there are two sets of doors. The doors close to the stairway opening inward toward the stairs but the situation is still controversial to this day.
9/22/2009 9:06:07 PM by Anonymous
• Flooding was caused by overflow of old Hubbell Dam at the head of Hubbell Avenue. The flood formed a lake on Florence Street covering the street railway tracks and the flood receded before the roadbed was seriously damaged. [Taken from Daily Mining Gazette article dated April 6, 1912]
9/22/2010 10:14:15 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The flooding was caused by overflow of old Hubbell Dam at the head of Hubbell Avenue. The flood formed a lake on Florence Street covering the street railway tracks for two blocks. The cars continued to use the submerged tracks and the flood receded before the roadbed was seriously damaged. [Taken from a Daily Mining Gazette Article dated April 6, 1912.]
9/22/2010 10:16:51 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The flooding was caused by overflow of old Hubbell Dam at the head of Hubbell Avenue. The flood formed a lake on Florence Street covering the street railway tracks for two blocks. The cars continued to use the submerged tracks and the flood receded before the roadbed was seriously damaged. [Taken from a Daily Mining Gazette Article dated April 6, 1912]
9/22/2010 10:18:54 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The drilling contest held at the Athletic Park was actually a fund raiser for the benefit of the Calumet baseball team. Twenty-one two-man teams and seventeen one-man teams entered the drilling contest providing an excellent opportunity for those unfamiliar with mining to see how the miners work, as the drills were rigged up and operated in exactly the same manner as if they were underground.The contest marked a new departure in drilling contests in two ways. It was the first time a contest for machine drills was ever attempted and the first time a hammer and drill team working by old fashioned methods competed against modern compressed air machines that were doing almost all of the work at that time.According to the Sunday Mining Gazette dated August 25, 1912, the Ahmeek Team won the drilling machine match. C & H Amygdaloid Teams, Second and Wolverine, Third in Two-man contest. [Further information on this event and a list of contestants can be found in The Calumet News and Daily Mining Gazette newspapers dated August 23, 24, 25, 1912 editions.]
9/22/2010 10:26:30 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• James Dee was born at Cliff Mine, November 11, 1856 and devoted most of his life to the development of the Copper Country. Some accomplishments to his credit are:*Recognized as the father of hockey in the United States, Mr. Dee was the organizer of the first professional hockey league in this contry.* Installed the first electric lights in the Copper Country.*One of the organizers of the Portage Lake Golf Club.*One of the organizers of the Onigaming Yacht Club.*Installed the first bowling alleys in Houghton.*One of the organizers of the first professional baseball league in the Copper Country.* Organized companies to build the old and new Amphidromes, of which he was president for more than 40 years.*One of the organizers of the Copper Country Agricultural Association.*One of the organizers of the Douglass Hotel company.*As president of the James R. Dee Real Estate company, he was responsible for the contruction of many substantial real estate properties in Houghton, including the Shelden-Dee building, the Gazette building, the Dee hotel, the Board of Trade and Telegraph Building.*Established Houghton's first telephone exchange in 1872.*Established a motion picture theater - The Lode - in Houghton. [Taken from a Daily Mining Gazette Article dated November 9, 1946]
9/22/2010 10:57:02 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
Name:Dan Fountain
This is photo of the surface workings of the Ropes Gold Mine in Ishpeming, ca. 1900-1901. Mining had ceased in 1897, but the new owners, Corrigan, McKinney and Company, reclaimed gold from the tailings by cyanide leaching. The tracks in the foreground carried the one-ton tram cars which transported tailings to and from the cyanide leaching tanks. In the background can be seen the Curry shafthouse, the 1888 mill building, the boiler house, and the 1884 mill building.
9/22/2010 6:30:37 AM by Anonymous
• My grandmother's sister is Blanche O'Neil who is the baby in this picture. My grandmother's name was Alice O'Neil. The man and woman in this photo are also my great grandparents. Please email me at: claudiatillison@bellsouth.net
9/22/2010 8:59:34 PM by Anonymous
Name:Jack Brunell
MTU Class of:1976
I believe the men in aprons in this photo are Charles Strobel on the left and Joseph Strobel on the right. The bar was located on Huron street just above the train station. The bar was famous for not having a cash register. The money was left on a glass shelf behind the bar. Charles and Joseph were brothers and partners in the bar. Later, Charles sold out to Joseph.
9/22/2011 10:19:40 AM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
This is an early example of adaptive reuse" of a former site. The woman is cooking at a fireplace that was originally one half of the heating/cooking feature of the two-family Married Enlisted Men's Quarters at Ft. Wilkins. This would be the fireplace/chimney arrangement that was once center in Cabin # 4. One can see the 'ceiling' and 'roof line' in the white paint on the chimney: straight for the ceiling, and an inverted "V" for the roof. There would be two fireplaces facing opposite directions so that one chimney would suffice for two living units under one roof. The single-log wall construction of these cabins was not as weather-resistant as the buildings of the Fort's interior that had clapboard siding and finished interior walls. All four Married Enlisted Men's Cabins have been reconstructed around the original chimney/fireplace features."
9/22/2011 11:31:13 AM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
Along with the new" stone bridge featured in this 1928 photograph, the background features two buildings of the "Range Light" structures run by the U.S. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICES. The white building in the right background is the Range Light and Keepr's dwelling. At the opposite side of the Range Light House (north) is a beacon that is lined up with another beacon located on the shore to guide ships through the harbor's entry passage. The building in the left background was the barn for the Range lightkeeper's garden and maintenance. The barn has since been moved further north away from the road and had also been used as a dormitory for seasonal workers and MTU Archaeologists over the years. Plans are now being formulated for the possible renovation of both buildings and the proposed installation of a Lighthouse/Maritime Museum?Exhibit in the main building that will be adjacent to the Lighthouse Overlook at Ft. Wilkins Historic State Park."
9/22/2011 11:41:21 AM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
This picture can cause problems if one is trying to find where it was taken from at the Fort. It appears to have been taken from a certain height above the ground from the west side of the Fort as Lake Fanny Hooe borders the fort on the south. However, there is no raised area or building that would allow for this vantage point. In truth, this photogrph is reversed. It is actually looking west from the top of the old Quartermaster's Shop building. Toward Mt. Brockway and West Bluff. I'm not sure when it got 'turned around', but it really should be reversed for it to portray an actual view.
9/22/2011 11:55:13 AM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
This photograph was taken from a shoreline of Lake Fanny Hooe that no longer exists as the fish weir installed witht eh 1964 footbridge raised the level of the lake 12-14 and this section of shore is now under water. The photo is facing east and shows the mouth of Fanny Hooe Creek center right. The buildings are the west mess hall center and the east mess hall right, across the Parade Ground."
9/22/2011 11:59:31 AM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
This photograph may have been taken from the top of the Clark Mine Stamp Mill building that was located about 100 yards up from the shore of Lake Fanny Hooe on Manganese Creek. I am attaching a photograph or two that show the position of the Stamp Mill on the southwest shore of Lake Fanny Hooe.

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9/22/2011 12:15:56 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
In 1976, the Michigan Department of History, Arts, and Libraries initiated a Living History Role-Playing Program" at Fort Wilkins that features up to five 're-enactors' who inhabit the Fort daily from the third week of June through August. The garrison usually has an 1870's Private with his wife, the Quartermaster Sergeant, the 2nd Lieutenant, and the 2nd lieutenant's wife to engage the visitor in daily life at the Fort in the summer of 1870. The Fort also has a Sutler's Store frequently run by the Store Proprietor, an agent of the Sutler, in the year 1846. In addition, the Fort hosts annual visits by "Battery D" of the Michigan Artillery near the end of each July. This group has a Civil War era encampment with nearly 30 reenactors at the Fort that features musketry and cannon demonstrations as well as craft and military activities.

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9/22/2011 12:31:55 PM by Anonymous
• Could this be a photograph from the Swedetown that was located a fair distance from Quincy west ansd north?
9/22/2011 4:23:41 PM by Anonymous
• That is the Union Temple of Honor Hall" (temperence hall?)on the left. The church is the German Lutheran Church "St Paul's". This congregation later moved to Laurium and is still located on Tamarack St there. This picture was probably taken closer to 5th and Scott streets (probably just in front of Ash Lane) as 6th street is visible 2 buildings up on the right."
9/22/2014 10:43:04 AM by Anonymous
• Fort Wilkins
9/22/2014 10:53:16 AM by Anonymous
• This hotel was on the NE corner of School St and Calumet Ave across from the current Washington Middle School.
9/22/2014 11:32:42 AM by Anonymous
• The picture is from 1983. My twin brother Mark, and I are in the background of the picture, which was taken during a Lab for the Medical Technology class Urinalysis and Body Fluids", fall quarter 1983. Alice Solden, class professor, is in the foreground. I am sorry but do not remember the names of the other classmates in the picture. -- Mike Hiltunen MT(ASCP), MBA, Michigan Tech Class of 1986"
9/23/2008 11:24:53 AM by Anonymous
• I'm a Clinical Lab Science alum and I recognize the blonde woman on the far right as our program director, Alice Soldan. She's still director and could probably help you identify the class, if you like. afsold@mtu.edu is her email. -- Christina Gardner Michigan Tech Class of 2003
9/23/2008 11:25:57 AM by Anonymous
• The photo is in one of the Med Tech labs. Alice Soldan is the instructor (blond, sort of leaning behind the microscope in the right front corner of the photo). -- Kathryn Oliver, Michigan Tech Class of 1983
9/23/2008 11:26:32 AM by Anonymous
• After doing some additional research, I have been able to come up with an exact location for what was High Bridge," as is referenced in the description of the subject photograph. Contrary to what both Gregg Patrick and I had earlier thought-----that "High Bridge" was near Agate Harbor-----(i. e., where Glazon Creek "dumps" into North Agate Harbor Bay), such is not the case. Rather, "High Bridge" is much further east, much closer to Copper Harbor. Specifically, "High Bridge" is located on Lakeshore Drive (M-26) approximately 1.0 miles west of the intersection of M-26 and the eastern terminus of Brockway Mountain Drive. The scene in the photograph is one of the "curves" just prior to the "big curve" where M-26 swings to the north as it heads to "Devils Washtub." I visited the location the weekend before last with Paul Bergh. Bergh told me that the location was called "High Bridge," because, prior to the construction of M-26, there was a "high wooden bridge" that spanned the ravine (now the location of a deep, filled, culvert) of the "wagon road." Additionally, Bergh told me that the photos "2008-08-18-08-A" and "2008-08-18-08-C" are of the exact same place-----within a few feet of each other-----both at "High Bridge." Bergh pointed out to me, in comparing the photos, that several of the birch/poplar trees along the side of the road do appear to "match up"----what is "different" in photo "A" is that shadows are obscuring the rocks-----rocks located along the south side of the road and which are otherwise clearly observable in photo "C." I would suggest for your consideration that a better description for the photgraph would be something along these lines: Date: 1933 Description: Lakeshore Drive (now state highway M-26) approximately 1.0 mile west of Copper Harbor in Keweenaw County. Getting ready to pull stumps near "High Bridge," formerly a ravine area located along the north side on M-26, just before the "big curve" which turns to the north and heads to Devils Washtub. -- Paul LaVanway "
9/23/2008 4:24:13 PM by Anonymous
• After doing some additional research, I have been able to come up with an exact location for what was High Bridge," as is referenced in the description of the subject photograph. Contrary to what both Gregg Patrick and I had earlier thought-----that "High Bridge" was near Agate Harbor-----(i. e., where Glazon Creek "dumps" into North Agate Harbor Bay), such is not the case. Rather, "High Bridge" is much further east, much closer to Copper Harbor. Specifically, "High Bridge" is located on Lakeshore Drive (M-26) approximately 1.0 miles west of the intersection of M-26 and the eastern terminus of Brockway Mountain Drive. The scene in the photograph is one of the "curves" just prior to the "big curve" where M-26 swings to the north as it heads to "Devils Washtub." I visited the location the weekend before last with Paul Bergh. Bergh told me that the location was called "High Bridge," because, prior to the construction of M-26, there was a "high wooden bridge" that spanned the ravine (now the location of a deep, filled, culvert) of the "wagon road." Additionally, Bergh told me that the photos "2008-08-18-08-A" and "2008-08-18-08-C" are of the exact same place-----within a few feet of each other-----both at "High Bridge." Bergh pointed out to me, in comparing the photos, that several of the birch/poplar trees along the side of the road do appear to "match up"----what is "different" in photo "A" is that shadows are obscuring the rocks-----rocks located along the south side of the road and which are otherwise clearly observable in photo "C." I would suggest for your consideration that a better description for the photgraph would be something along these lines: Date: 1933 Description: Lakeshore Drive (now state highway M-26) approximately 1.0 mile west of Copper Harbor in Keweenaw County. Getting ready to pull stumps near "High Bridge," formerly a ravine area located along the north side on M-26, just before the "big curve" which turns to the north and heads to Devils Washtub. -- Paul LaVanway "
9/23/2008 4:24:29 PM by Anonymous
• Are you sure this is the Kingston Mine, lookss like Ameek 3&4 to me. -- Mark Baldwin
9/23/2009 9:54:57 PM by Baldwinmw
• This is a reverse image of the picture.
9/23/2014 10:22:50 AM by Anonymous
• This church was originaly in the town of Clifton (Cliff Mine) but later moved to Phoenix.
9/23/2014 10:24:49 AM by Anonymous
• This building still stands on 5th st.
9/23/2014 11:13:22 AM by Anonymous
• This was taken near the large statue dedicated to the Spanish American War Veterans. Possibly this was the statue's dedication ceremony.
9/23/2014 11:43:04 AM by Anonymous
• That church appears to be the St Paul's Lutheran Church in Laurium Tamarack Street).
9/23/2014 12:02:25 PM by Anonymous
• IOOF is the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. There must have been a convention in Red Jacket.
9/23/2014 9:35:36 AM by Anonymous
• The photographer must have been Adolf Isler. It was his trademark to insert a pair of snowshoes into the picture if possible.
9/23/2014 9:37:51 AM by Anonymous
• I believe this building is on the west corner of Woodland Ave and First Street in Laurium. Notice the traction company streetcar tracks turning onto Woodland. The line continued beyond the block and up to the Albion station.
9/23/2014 9:58:37 AM by Anonymous
• I want to say this is the current Lindells Restaurant building....but not for sure on that.
9/24/2008 10:00:12 PM by Anonymous
• Historic American Engineering Record - U.S. Bureau of Mines Photographs from 1927 Fire and Collapse - states this photo is: QMC emergency crew ready to do down No. 6 shaft to inspect progress of underground fire. July 1927.""
9/24/2008 2:28:27 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• I am studying local shipwrecks and found the US Life-Saving Annual Reports on the shipwrecked Pasadena. The wreck occured on October 8th not the 5th. I have obtained the annual report from the US LSS Heritage Association website. I am so pleased J. T. Reeder got the photos. - Barb Koski
9/24/2011 11:18:41 PM by Anonymous
• I am studying local shipwrecks and found the US Life-Saving Annual Reports on the shipwrecked Pasadena. The wreck occured on October 8th not the 5th. I have obtained the annual report from the US LSS Heritage Association website. I am so pleased J. T. Reeder got the photos. - Barb Koski
9/24/2011 11:18:56 PM by Anonymous
Name:Mike Cooper
MTU Class of:
The initials J.H.R. refer to John Harry Reeder, the subject's son (my grandfather). J.H.R. was likely the photographer. This was the year that JTR died.
9/24/2011 4:04:50 PM by Anonymous
• My Great Grandfather was on this ship when it ran aground. The story I've been told by my Grandmother who was born in 1917 was that after the storm the ship was assumed lost and my Great Grandmother was called somewhere to identify the body they thought was my Great Grandfather. She told them it wasn't him. Two weeks later he walked in the door of their house in Southern Ontario. It turned out they used a chair and some rope as a makeshift zip line to get to shore. Their rescue came from local natives who brought them to safety. It took two weeks, but eventually he made it home.
9/24/2016 ; 9:45:38AM by Anonymous
• This building at one time was owned by the Vitton Brothers who used it as a potato warehouse. They were big potato farmers.
9/25/2015 9:42:10 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
Actually, this is an aerial photograph of EAGLE HARBOR, not Copper Harbor. The lighthouse and grounds are those of the Keweenaw County Historical Society.
9/26/2011 3:49:28 PM by Anonymous
Name:John Griebel
MTU Class of:2000, 2008
The island in the center left is Porter's Island, the original site of the Government Mining Permit Office. A canoe landing was on the lakeshore side near the west end. The permit office was on the west end of the island (left)as well and a 'tent city' of would-be miners waiting for their permits started on the shore and eventually became the town of Copper Harbor. The Permit Office was later moved to Ft. Wilkins proper to provide better shelter from the weather blowing off the lake and offer a larger facility to handle the load of permits being filed.
9/26/2011 4:11:26 PM by Anonymous
Name:Michael R. Cooper
MTU Class of:
Back row: Edwin C. Reeder, Clara M. Reeder, J. Harry Reeder Front row: Margaret H. Reeder, J. T. Reeder, Margaret Maggie" Colville Reeder"
9/26/2012 11:06:12 PM by Anonymous
• Probably C&H fire department, not band.
9/26/2012 11:23:40 AM by Anonymous
• Probably on MacNaughton lawn.
9/26/2012 11:24:45 AM by Anonymous
Name:Michael R. Cooper
MTU Class of:
Title is probably, Algie [&] boy". "Algie" is almost certainly Algenore Roehm (daughter of Paul Roehm, Laurium), John T. Reeder's daughter-in-law. The boy is possibly her son, Edwin Thorley Reeder, born 14 Dec. 1908. "
9/26/2012 9:24:31 PM by Anonymous
Name:Michael R. Cooper
MTU Class of:
Clara would be Clara M. Reeder, daughter of J. T. Reeder. Without date, it is impossible to determine which house this is, but from furnishings, likely to be 318 College Ave. (the other choice is 1 Second Street, Tamarack Location).
9/26/2012 9:36:06 PM by Anonymous
Name:Michael R. Cooper
MTU Class of:
Reviewing family genealogical info, F. C. Roehm" would be Florence Christiana Roehm (b. 19 Oct 1887) and probably Margaret Helen Reeder (b.11 Mar. 1897; other choice could be Mary Margaret Roehm (b. 29 Mar 1886, my grandmother), but it doesn't look like her."
9/26/2012 9:53:48 PM by Anonymous
• Notes on back of print indicate differing information. Information from Roy Drier (donor) indicates that this is St. Joseph Church in Red Jacket. According to Ed Yarbrough, this is St. Anne's not St. Joseph." "According to Bob Langseth, this is not St. Anne's. St. Anne's has angels for bosses along the ceiling -- this photo does not show such.""
9/27/2006 12:30:48 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist
• This photo is viewed from the south to the north. The two streets going 'northward' are Rockland and Caledonia. The one heading to the right is Stable St./ Old Colony Rd. The lower center of the photo is Hecla St., Laurium.
9/27/2011 10:45:55 PM by Anonymous
• John and Angie Hrvotich ran the store in the 1960s -1978.
9/27/2011 10:56:30 PM by Anonymous
Name:Chad
MTU Class of:
This is St. Joseph Catholic Church in Lake Linden. The caption translated to English reads, Church, convent and rectory of the French Canadians of Lake Linden, Michigan. This is an architectural rendering that depicts the church facing east. Part way through construction of the church it was decided to have the church face west. At this time the design of the church also changed resulting in two steeples rather than the one prominent center steeple as depicted here. The convent or St. Anne's Acanemy is the building with the center steeple. This is where the nuns lived and taught school, it was destroyed by fire in 1928 an replaced by the brick school building that stands there today. The rectory with the hipped roof was replaced by a larger brick building which is connected to the church in the 1950's. My family has attended this church for 6 generations.
9/27/2013 10:02:27 PM by Anonymous
• There are a lot of late-1880s elements of Hancock seen here but none that I can find from the late-1890s or early-1900s, so the about 1896" date seems accurate. Not long after this photo was taken the Mineral Range depot seen in the middle of the image at the base of Tezcuco Street was moved northwest to what is now Depot Street."
9/27/2014 11:53:54 AM by John Haeussler
• Yes, this is actually the Robbins/West Vein Mine, taken from the Phoenix Mine site looking west.
9/28/2009 12:34:50 PM by Anonymous
• Senator Leo Roy, was a distant cousin..This is so awesome..
9/28/2009 12:42:19 PM by Anonymous
• I was born and raised in Tamarack Michigan and graduated from Dollar Bay High School. Spent a few years just knocking around and then decided to enlist in the Air Force. Basic then Tech School (AC&W). It got to the point where I was anxiously awaiting my first real" duty assignment. The day came...1984-1988...Calumet AFS Station. Funny thing, I lived in the area for 21 years prior and still had to ask for directions to get there. My tour of duty ended when we closed the site. I make an annual pilgrimage every summer when visiting family. Always a stop at the Cliffview for a pickled Egg and a Footlong Vollwerth's Hot Dog. If any of you have questions about the local area you can e-mail me at glenn.wareham@noaa.gov."
9/28/2012 10:27:18 AM by Anonymous
• This is a very nice view of Houghton from across Portage Lake. The ice road leads to Huron Street.
9/28/2014 10:17:40 PM by John Haeussler
• This appears to be an image from the $200,000 fire" of February 20, 1923."
9/28/2014 10:27:58 PM by John Haeussler
• Charles Francis Sawyer (1905-1996) was born in Florida and served his country during multiple foreign wars. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This photo was taken on the steps of Hancock High School, probably around 1931 when Sawyer resided in Hancock. The event appears to be an ROTC commissioning ceremony (also see MS503-MS02-4-30-01).
9/28/2014 10:52:19 PM by John Haeussler
• This photo depicts the grounds in front of Hancock High School. Store fronts are seen in the background on Quincy Street. This ROTC commissioning ceremony probably dates to about 1931. The officer to the far, lower right appears to be Charles Francis Sawyer. See MS503-MS02-4-31-01 for more.
9/28/2014 10:59:21 PM by John Haeussler
• This is not the church (Trinity Episcopal) that was moved from Hancock to Houghton in the 1860s. That church was erected on the southwest corner of Hancock and Tezcuco Streets. This images looks (somewhat) north up Ravine Street. The large building on the right is the Masonic Hall. The church nearest the center of the image is the Methodist Episcopal on the northeast corner of Hancock and Ravine Streets. At the far left and partially obscured is St. Anne's Catholic Church on the northeast corner of Quincy and Ravine Streets. MS042-063-999-Z488 is a cropped version of this image.
9/28/2014 11:10:45 PM by John Haeussler
• This is a wonderful view of West Hancock. When magnified you can see the Lieblein Wholesale Grocery building (which still stands today on Hancock Street housing the offices of OHM and several apartments) being constructed. The Central Primary School (opened in 1894) and the Lieblein House (generally attributed to 1895) are visible in the photo thus I believe that the image was taken slightly later than 1893. Some later 1890s structures such as City Hall, the Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church, and Lake View Station (after its move) are not seen in the image thus it seems certain to date to the mid-1890s.
9/28/2014 11:27:38 PM by John Haeussler
• This is one of my favorite photos of Hancock. The Hancock Mine #2 shaft-rockhouse towers over Ingot and Elevation Streets. The house in the foreground of the shaft-rockhouse still stands at that intersection. More of the mining operation is seen as well as the tops of some Elevation Street homes, a Houghton County Traction Company streetcar, and plenty of cattle. Simply wonderful.
9/28/2014 11:42:02 PM by John Haeussler
• Located at the corner of Michigan and W Quincy Streets, this building was the original (rented) home of Suomi College in the late 1890s prior to the construction of Old Main.
9/28/2014 11:47:41 PM by John Haeussler
• Room of J. Harry Reeder.
9/29/2012 11:01:30 AM by yoopertx
• Possibly for the funerals of Edwin Reeder (son of J.T. Reeder) and/or his wife, Algenore Roehm Reeder, who were killed in an auto accident in Wisconsin in 1934. It was a Reeder habit to photograph funerals.
9/29/2012 11:14:28 AM by yoopertx
• House is at 1 Second Street, Tamarack Location. JTR moved from this house to Houghton in 1907, so photo is pre-1907.
9/29/2012 11:22:35 AM by yoopertx
• The piano player is JTR's oldest daughter, Clara Reeder. The little girl is his youngest daughter, Margaret.
9/29/2012 11:36:43 AM by yoopertx
• The piano player is JTR's oldest daughter, Clara Reeder. The little girl is his youngest daughter, Margaret. Since this is dated 1902, this would be in the Tamarack Location house, 1 Second St.
9/29/2012 11:38:56 AM by yoopertx
• Is this Chisholm, MN?
9/29/2014 4:25:30 PM by Anonymous
• This is a rare picture. This church was located on Mine St in Hecla location. Most early Scandinavian and Finnish immigrants to the Calumet area worshiped in this church until they had enough ethnic members of their own to warrant a separate building.
9/29/2014 4:31:11 PM by Anonymous
• This is photo of Halliwell Mine in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.
9/29/2016 ; 10:02:35PM by Anonymous
• One of the newest departments at Michigan Tech is the Business Administration department. The department uses standards which are also in effect in accredited business schools. In this field a student must have at least 40% of his semester hours in business and economic subjects. At least another 40% must be taken in subjects other than business and economics, provided that economic principles and economic history may be counted in either the business or non-business group.The Business Administration course here leads to a Bachelor of Science degree. A degree in this field may lead to careers in the three major division of Accounting, Marketing, and Industrial Relations and Management.The Michigan Tech Business Administration department prepares its students for not only making a living, but also for living. [Caption below photo -1959 Keweenawan, page 42]
9/30/2009 9:06:22 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• A relatively young club, the Accounting Club was organized on the Michigan Tech campus in 1956.The organization supplements class work by practical observations and experiences. They take field trips to industries and public accounting firms located in the Upper Peninsula. They also are able to obtain speakers who are members of the accounting profession. [Caption above photo - 1959 Keweenawan, page 134]
9/30/2009 9:11:04 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The Department of Business and Engineering Administration, headed by Professor Thomas N. Smith, offers students a four-year program leading to a B.S. degree in Business Administration and a one-year program on a fifth-year college level leading to a B.S. degree in Engineering Administration. There are four options open to students at the close of the Freshman year: accounting, leading to public accounting practice; general business, leading to marketing and sales; industrial relations, leading to personnel work; and industrial management, leading to administrative work in business. In the Engineering Administration field, options in personal administration and sales management are available. [Caption with photo - 1960 Keweenawan, page 48]
9/30/2009 9:24:59 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• ACCOUNTING CLUB MEMBERS: Seated, left to right: Robert Chynoweth, John Forsberg - Secretary, Glenn Pyhtila - President, Don Karseboom - Vice-President, George Ecola - Treasurer, Hugh Makens. Second Row: George White, Robert Feira, James Schram, Florian Mohar, Carl Niska, Gerald Hansen, Clarence Parolini. Third Row: Robert Mal, Jerry Derdowski, Paul Thomson, Russell Hild, John Kargela and Brynolf Heikkinen.SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MANAGEMENT (SAM) MEMBERS: Seated, left to right: Wayne Shoquist, Marshall Berman, Thomas Babb - faculty advisor, Noel Kurth - Vice-president, James Anderson - President, Donald McColl - Secretary - Treasurer, Hug Makens, Michael Carlson. Second Row: Evelyn Lescelius, Raymond Latvala, Richard Wibbelmann, Dewaine Olson, Charles Carlson, Thomas Bliss, Kenneth Olson, Ray Brodie, John Lasse, Barry Johnson, Neil Veeser.Third row: Harry Hicks, Daniel Herringa, Larry Worth, Robert Meyers, Jon Larson, Richard LeBlanc, Craig Paynter, Gordon Staats, Frank Karr.Fourth Row: Richard Benz, Gary Miller, John Killmar, George Hurt, James Roley, Roger Grates and Gary Morton. [Captions above photos - 1961 Keweenawan, page 101]
9/30/2009 9:39:37 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• The Accounting Club was organized to supplement classroom work through contact with persons and firms specializing in the field of accounting, joining together present and past students of accounting in a common organization. [Caption below photo - 1964 Keweenawan, page 157]
9/30/2009 9:43:39 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This is now being used as a hunting camp. It can be seen approximately 4 miles south of Mass City, MI on the corner of Rousseau Road and Simar/Wasas Road.
9/30/2009 9:55:37 AM by Anonymous
• This is actually Third Street in Laurium, looking west from Hecla Street, with the First National Bank building on the left, and the Nettie Cruze building on the corner of Third and Osceola Streets in the middle background. - Jeremiah Mason
9/4/2007 10:42:38 AM by Anonymous
• This is actually on Oak Street in Red Jacket, looking west from Sixth Street. Most of the buildings on the south side of the street are still extant; the steeples of the Red Jacket Congregational Church and St. Joseph's Slovenian Catholic Church (now St. Paul's) can be seen at the right edge of the image.
9/4/2007 10:52:57 AM by Anonymous
• Pretty sure this is actually the Northwestern Mine's stamp mill stack, built in the early 1850's.
9/4/2011 5:44:22 PM by Anonymous
• I'll go out on a limb, but I'll say that the building on the left is 415 and the middle one is the barber shop. The one on the right is the Mueller House before the massive changes to the front. [John Kirk / U.P. Engineers and Architects]
9/5/2006 8:40:52 AM by Anonymous
• (2010) looks like the joeys/willow building, also
9/5/2010 7:01:50 PM by Anonymous
• This is Lower Pewabic. The road junction in the right front side matches the junction shown on sheet 7of 34 of the HAER report maps.
9/5/2014 9:39:30 PM by Anonymous
• This hospital was established by my Grandmother's brother, Dr Charles Sorsen not long after his graduation from Rush Medical School in Chicago, IL. He died suddenly in London, Eng. in 1907.
9/6/2016 ; 2:08:36PM by Anonymous
• This building later became the banquet room for the Irish Times (formerly Bon Ton, Shawn's, etc.) Restaurant. It collapsed in the winter of 2015-16.
9/6/2016 ; 2:22:58PM by Anonymous
• Good info in previous comment except the reference to St Patrick's should be to St Louis RC Church which predated St Anne's. St Patrick's was there before St Louis but it was termed a Hall not a church. It was more of a social gathering place (poetry readings, speeches, plays, etc.)
9/6/2016 ; 2:32:50PM by Anonymous
• Al Paulson had a butcher shop in the rear of his store and he hung the legs of the deer he processed along the eaves of this store. He also had a little private museum acctoss the highway (US41) from the store which had a number of undertaker's carriages and sleds outside.
9/7/2014 10:19:14 AM by Anonymous
• This image is looking toward the corner of Quincy St. and South Ave. in Houghton.
9/7/2014 8:47:46 PM by Anonymous
• This is possibly from the Houghton side as the picture appears to have the Quincy shaft on the hill in the distant background (left side).
9/7/2014 9:34:18 AM by Anonymous
• i was stationed at Calumet twice, from Sept 1967 to Oct 1968 and then from May 1970 until my discharge in april 1971. I worked in the power plant.
9/9/2009 10:01:00 AM by Anonymous
• more like pay office and doctors /dentist office.
9/9/2012 11:45:29 AM by Anonymous