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Champion Copper Company

 Organization

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Allen Family Genealogy

 Collection — sc_box: MS 5, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-853
Abstract

History, circa 1961, tracing the lineage of George Issac Allen, a millwright at the Champion Copper Mill in Freda, Michigan, buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Houghton, Michigan. Includes published sources, copies of plat maps, genealogical information, and oral history interviews.

Dates: undated

Bill Stewart Papers

 Collection — Box: 1-12
Identifier: MS-747
Abstract

Papers, 1906-2002, collected by Bill Stewart relating to the "Keweenaw Venture" joint operation between Homestake Copper Company and International Nickel Company. Also includes documentation from Stewart Holdings, Peninsula Copper Industries, Great Lakes Minerals, and several other mining initiatives.

Dates: 1906-2002

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

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

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

Painesdale Oral History Project

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-326
Abstract

Oral history project, 1984-1987, conducted by Lillian Tretin as part of her dissertation through the University of Michigan, "Traprock workers: the culture of work and risk at an underground copper mine, 1900-1945." Includes cassettes as well as transcriptions of the interviews of local residents of Painesdale, Michigan, a company town for the Champion Mining Company, a subsidiary of the Copper Range Company.

Dates: 1984-1987

W. J. Richards Notebook

 Collection — sc_box: MS 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-112
Abstract

Notebook, 1906-1918, of W. J. Richards, a master mechanic at the Champion Copper Co. of Painesdale, Michigan. Photocopy of 6 ring binder with published materials including different tables of weights, strengths and calculations. Near end of notebook are tables of calculations for the Champion, Trimountain and Baltic mines.

Dates: 1906-1918

Additional filters:

Subject
Correspondence 4
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Painesdale 3
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 3
Painesdale (Mich.) 3
Company towns -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 2
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Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 2
Copper mines and mining -- Employees 2
Freda (Mich.) 2
Legal documents 2
Notebooks 2
Oral histories 2
Technical drawings 2
Accident reports 1
Adams (Houghton County, Mich. : Township) 1
Agreements 1
Atlantic Mine (Mich.) 1
Baltic (Mich.) 1
Banks and banking 1
Beacon Hill (Mich.) 1
Bus lines -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Case files 1
Checks (bank checks) 1
Clippings (Information artifacts) 1
Copper industry and trade 1
Copper industry and trade -- Michigan 1
Copper miners -- Crimes against -- 20th century -- Michigan 1
Copper mines and mining -- History -- Michigan 1
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan 1
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula 1
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Ontonagon County 1
Copper smelting 1
Corporation reports 1
Data 1
Deeds 1
Drawings (Visual works) 1
Financial records 1
Forests and forestry -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Genealogies 1
Geology -- Michigan 1
Globe Mine (Houghton County, Mich.) 1
Hancock (Mich.) 1
Histories 1
Houghton (Mich.) 1
Industrial housing -- Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula 1
Italians -- Michigan -- Copper Country 1
Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.) 1
Labor unions -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Land companies -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Manuscripts (Document genre) 1
Maps (Documents) 1
Milling (Metal-work) -- Michigan -- Freda 1
Mines and mineral resources 1
Minutes 1
Painesdale (Mich.) -- History 1
Payroll records 1
Personnel records 1
Photocopies 1
Photographs 1
Plats (Maps) 1
Railroads -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Records (Documents) 1
Redridge (Mich.) 1
Reports 1
Research (Document genres) 1
Seeberville (Mich.) 1
Stanton Township (Houghton County, Mich. : Township) 1
Surveys (Documents) 1
Trimountain (Mich.) 1
White Pine (Mich.) 1
White Pine Mine (Mich.) 1
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