Spitzbergen Locations

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Title: Spitzbergen Locations
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources, Buildings, Geography
Condition: Fair
Description: Album Cover: "To the man who started it all John M Longyear from his former clerk care S. Sather 1921." Mine #2 - Longyear Valley. [View of a distant mountian with a coal mine and incline rail line. A simple building is visible 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: MS031-01-02-21
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:
• 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