Spitzbergen Locations

Archive Image
Add to Shoebox  View Your Shoebox  User Login
Title: Spitzbergen Locations
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Human Settlements, Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources, Buildings
Condition: Fair
Description: Vintermotiv fra Longyearbyen, July 24, 1956 [Groups of houses on either side of a river drainage in a snowy valley. A mine is visible on the slope of a mountain]
Source of Description: Portion of writing on back of postcard [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Longyear Family
Date of Photo: c1956
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 10.4 cm x 14.7 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS031-01-03-07
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:
• Longyear Valley under the company Store Norske. The group of buildings in the foreground is the settlement Nybyen, which is located adjacent Longyear City or Longyearbyen.
4/9/2008 1:41:06 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher