Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company

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Title: Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company
Photographer: Drummond MacGavin
Subject Headings: Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources, Engineering - Surveying, Geography
Condition: Good
Description: Photograph No.22. Proterty notives at point "III". [A man stands by a wooden signpost reading "Arctic Coal Co. Boston U.S.A."]
Source of Description: Front of photograph [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Cynthia Callan
Date of Photo: 1912-1913
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 4.7 cm x 7.1 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS018-Z-16-21
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:
• From 1905, the Arctic Coal Company erected claim signs at strategic points around its land claims. This activity was important in establishing a legal ownership of the land. The lands of Spitsbergen were highly contested in the early twentieth century and many claims overlapped.
4/23/2008 3:50:47 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher