Title: John Lakner Employment Card, Calumet & Hecla Mining Company
Photographer: None
Subject Headings: Persons - Immigrants, Metal Trade - Copper Industry and Trade - Copper Mines and Mining,
Condition: Good
Description: [Employment record for John Lakner, an Austrian trammer employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company from 1899 through his death in 1905. According to the card, Lakner was killed November 13, 1905, in a blast on level 119 of the #5 shaft, due to "miscounting the reports of the firing of three block holes."]
Source of Description: [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor:
Date of Photo: September 1977
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 12.5 cm x 7.5 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS002-365-009 Lakner John Side A
Collection Name: MS002 The Calumet & Hecla Mining Companies Collection
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