Fires - Calumet & Hecla Firefighters

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Title: Fires - Calumet & Hecla Firefighters
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Persons, Accidents - Fires, Transportation - Railroads
Condition: Good
Description: [A group of men, some looking like railroad personnel observe a fire producing thick black smoke near the railroad tracks. A crane with the wording of C & H Consolidated Copper is shown.]
Source of Description: [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Universal Oil Products
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 20.6 cm x 25.4 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS003-009-008-01
Collection Name: Calumet & Hecla Photograph 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 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