Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company

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Title: Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company
Photographer: Wilse
Subject Headings: Human Settlements - Cities and Towns - Company Towns, Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources, History, Modern - 20th Century
Condition: Good
Description: (10618) (Eneret - Wilse) (Arctic Coal Co. Longyear City. Advent Bay). (B.) Envelope 6. See p. 29. 1909. [View of a small wooden settlement by the edge of a river bed, under a mountain with a mine and an aerial tramway].
Source of Description: Front of photograph [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Longyear Family
Date of Photo: August 1909
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 14.8 cm x 19.5 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS031-01-01-20
Collection Name: Longyear Spitsbergen Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• This photograph 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