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Copper Range Company

 Organization

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Copper Range Company Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-080
Abstract The Copper Range Company (1899-1977) operated copper mines in Houghton County's southern communities and in Ontonagon County. The second largest mining company in the Copper Country (after Calumet & Hecla), the Copper Range Company was the only one to endure past the 1960s. In addition to mining, it owned and operated the Copper Range Railroad (1899-1973) and the Copper Range Motor Bus Company (1925-1955). Materials in the Copper Range Company Records document the history of the...
Dates: 1851 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1899 - 1970

Copper Range smelting operations data book and transcription

 Collection — sc_box: MS 6, Folder: 24
Identifier: MS-1002
Abstract

The data book, 1916-1917, containing smelting data of the Copper Range Mining Company. Also included is transcription and analysis (12 pages) of the data book completed by Karl Rundman.

Dates: 1916-1917, approximately 2019; Majority of material found within ( 1916-1917)

Hanchette & Lawton Case Files on the Copper Miners' Strike

 Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: MS-854
Abstract The Copper Miners' Strike of 1913-1914 in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula was marred by several acts of violence, notably the Italian Hall disaster and the Seeberville shootings. Swaby L. Lawton of the law firm Hanchette & Lawton represented the Quincy Mining Company during the strike and the Copper Range Company during the appeals against the conviction of deputes for the Seeberville shootings. This collection consists of the files of the law firm Hanchette & Lawton of Hancock...
Dates: 1913 - 1915

Harry T. Mercer Collection

 Collection — Box: 1-4
Identifier: MS-694
Abstract

Collection, undated, of Harry T. Mercer, long-time employee of the Copper Range Mining Company and resident of Painesdale, Michigan. Includes technical drawings, a card index, and field notes.

Dates: undated

J. Robert Van Pelt Copper Range Company Research Collection

 Collection — Box: 1-17
Identifier: MS-028
Abstract Dr. John Robert ("Bob") Van Pelt was Michigan Tech's sixth president, serving the campus from 1956 to 1965. After he stepped down, Van Pelt began work on a history of the Copper Range Company (whose board he had joined in 1961). The manuscript was unfinished when the Copper Range Company was acquired by Louisiana Land and Exploration in 1977. The collection contains files related to Van Pelt's incomplete manuscript about the history of the Copper Range Company. The bulk of the material...
Dates: 1840s-1977

Larry Chabot Papers

 Collection — Box: 1-6
Identifier: MS-076
Abstract

Papers, 1953-2008, compiled and written by Larry Chabot, document the history of the White Pine Copper Company located in Ontonagon County and operated by the Copper Range Company. Includes newspapers, clippings, photocopies, newsletters, reports and correspondence related to the history of the White Pine Copper Company from the time the mine opened in 1953 to its closure in 1995.

Dates: 1953-2008

Letterhead and Stationary Collection

 Collection — sc_box: MS 1, Folder: 3-7
Identifier: MS-068
Abstract

Collection, undated, of blank letterhead and stationary from mining companies, civic entities and other organizations from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Dates: undated

Louis G. Koepel Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-173
Abstract

Collection, 1911-1978, compiled by Louis Koepel, a resident and historian of Michigan's Copper Country. Includes Securities and Exchange Commission filings for the merger of the Copper Range Company with Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, SEC paperwork for the Calumet and Hecla, Inc. sale to Universal Oil Products, auction catalogs for disposition of the W. Parsons Todd Collection, parts catalogs, patents. Also includes blueprints for the J. P. Cooper house in East Hancock, Michigan.

Dates: 1911-1978

Minor Houses / Miner Houses : Keweenaw Heritage Center Exhibit Report

 Collection — sc_box: 5, Folder: 47
Identifier: MS-941
Abstract

Report, 2003, pertaining to the Minor/Miner Houses exhibit at the Keweenaw Heritage Center in Calumet, Michigan.

Dates: 2003

National Bank of Houghton pay stubs

 Collection — sc_box: 6, Folder: 37
Identifier: MS-1032
Abstract

National Bank of Houghton pay stubs, 1901-1922.

Dates: 1901-1922

Additional filters:

Subject
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 5
Correspondence 5
Reports 5
Upper Peninsula (Mich.) 4
White Pine Mine (Mich.) 4
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Company towns -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 3
Copper mines and mining -- History -- Michigan 3
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Ontonagon County 3
Painesdale (Mich.) 3
Photographs 3
White Pine (Mich.) 3
Clippings (Information artifacts) 2
Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 2
Copper mines and mining -- Employees 2
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Painesdale 2
Deeds 2
Documents 2
Drawings (Visual works) 2
Environmental protection -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 2
Field notes 2
Financial records 2
Hancock (Mich.) 2
Houghton County (Mich.) 2
Industrial housing -- Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula 2
Keweenaw County (Mich.) 2
Legal documents 2
Ontonagon County (Mich.) 2
Redridge (Mich.) 2
Stanton Township (Houghton County, Mich. : Township) 2
Trimountain (Mich.) 2
Accident reports 1
Adams (Houghton County, Mich. : Township) 1
Agreements 1
Allouez (Mich.) 1
Application forms 1
Atlantic Mine (Mich.) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Baltic (Mich.) 1
Banks and banking 1
Beacon Hill (Mich.) 1
Blueprints (Reprographic copies) 1
Building -- Michigan -- Ontonagon County 1
Bus lines -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Canals 1
Case files 1
Champion (Mich.) 1
Checks (bank checks) 1
Company towns 1
Copper Country (Mich.) -- History 1
Copper industry and trade 1
Copper industry and trade -- Michigan 1
Copper miners -- Crimes against -- 20th century -- Michigan 1
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula 1
Copper smelting 1
Corporation reports 1
Dams -- Michigan -- Houghton County 1
Data 1
Families -- History 1
Forests and forestry -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Freda (Mich.) 1
Genealogies 1
Geology -- Michigan 1
Globe Mine (Houghton County, Mich.) 1
Houghton (Mich.) 1
Indexes (Reference sources) 1
Italians -- Michigan -- Copper Country 1
Labor unions -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Land companies -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Land surveys 1
Land titles 1
Letterheads 1
Manuscripts (Document genre) 1
Maps (Documents) 1
Mineral rights -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Mines and mineral resources -- Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula 1
Mining corporations -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Minutes 1
Newsletters 1
Newspapers 1
Notebooks 1
Oral histories 1
Painesdale (Mich.) -- History 1
Papers (Document genres) 1
Patents 1
Payroll records 1
Personnel records 1
Photocopies 1
Railroads -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Records (Documents) 1
Research (Document genres) 1
Sault Sainte Marie Canal (Mich.) 1
Seeberville (Mich.) 1
Solution mining -- Michigan -- Ontonagon County 1
Superior, Lake 1
Surveys (Documents) 1
Surveys -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Technical drawings 1
Writing paper 1
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