Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company

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Title: Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company
Photographer: K. J. Hansen and F. A. Dalburg
Subject Headings: Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources, Geography - Maps, Harbors
Condition: Good
Description: Map of Portion of East Shore of Green Harbour, West Spitsbergen. Showing Line of Proposed Tramway from Mine to Shore. Ayer and Longyear Tract No. 2. [A blueprint plan of an area adjacent Green Harbor showing a whaling station A/S Nimrod, a radio telegraph station, two coal mines and two houses.]
Source of Description: Front of map. [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Cynthia Callan
Date of Photo: 1913
Medium: still image
Color: color
Size: 45.0 cm x 86.2 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS018-Z-04-01
Collection Name: Scott Turner 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:
• In 1913, the Arctic Coal Company prepared a plan of its operations on Green Harbor with the layout of a possible surface railway from its No.1 mine (Tract 2) to the shoreline. This line was never constructed. Instead, coal was transported by a horse drawn sled, a slow and difficult process.
4/24/2008 9:35:02 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher