Spitzbergen Locations

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Title: Spitzbergen Locations
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources, Railroads - Cars, Transportation - Railroads
Condition: Fair
Description: Album Cover: "To the man who started it all John M Longyear from his former clerk care S. Sather 1921." Passenger Haulage Longyear Valley. [A group of men sit on a rail trolley on an inclined rail line. An aerial tramway tower stands in the foreground].
Source of Description: Album cover. Front of photograph. [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Longyear Family
Date of Photo: c1921
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 10.9 cm x 14.9 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS031-01-02-23
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:
• 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