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Copper Range Railroad Company

 Organization

Found in 6 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 Railroad Company distribution of payroll records

 Collection — Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MS-1034
Abstract

Distribution of payroll records, 1920, 1926, of the Copper Range Railroad Company.

Dates: 1920-1926

Croteau family railroad photographs

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-1004
Abstract

Color slides, 1959-1980, belonging to the Croteau Family.

Dates: 1959-1980

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

Reverend Herman Page Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-082
Abstract Collection, 1870-1996; 2005, compiled by Reverend Herman Page on the history of Michigan's Copper Country with a particular focus on Copper Country railroads. This collection covers most of the railroads of the Copper Country including the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway, the Mineral Range Railroad, and the Hancock and Calumet Railroad as well as information on various mining companies and locations in the Copper Country. Includes glass plate negatives, photographs, clippings,...
Dates: 1870-1996; 2005; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1996

Wesley Perron Railroad Collection

 Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: MS-447
Abstract

Collection, 1865-1987, compiled by Wesley E. Perron, an avid railroad enthusiast and Marquette, Michigan resident. Includes photographs, information and clippings about numerous area railroad companies, particularly the Copper Range Railroad and the Mineral Range Railroad.

Dates: 1865-1987

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Subject
Clippings (Information artifacts) 3
Correspondence 3
Photographs 3
Railroads -- History -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 3
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 2
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Houghton (Mich.) 2
Houghton County (Mich.) 2
Maps (Documents) 2
Mine railroads -- History -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 2
Painesdale (Mich.) 2
Payroll records 2
Railroads -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 2
Research (Document genres) 2
Accident reports 1
Adams (Houghton County, Mich. : Township) 1
Agreements 1
Atlantic Mine (Mich.) 1
Baltic (Mich.) 1
Beacon Hill (Mich.) 1
Bus lines -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Calumet (Mich.) 1
Company towns -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 1
Copper industry and trade 1
Copper industry and trade -- Michigan 1
Copper mines and mining -- Employees 1
Copper mines and mining -- History -- Michigan 1
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula 1
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Ontonagon County 1
Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Painesdale 1
Deeds 1
Financial records 1
Flash Drives 1
Forests and forestry -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Freda (Mich.) 1
Geology -- Michigan 1
Globe Mine (Houghton County, Mich.) 1
Industrial sites -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Keweenaw County (Mich.) -- History 1
Labor unions -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Land companies -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula 1
Legal documents 1
Manuscripts (Document genre) 1
Marquette (Mich.) 1
Mines and mineral resources -- History -- Michigan 1
Minutes 1
Negatives (Photographic) 1
Ontonagon County (Mich.) 1
Personnel records 1
Photocopies 1
Portage Lake Lift Bridge (Mich.) 1
Postcards 1
Railroads -- Buildings and structures -- Michigan 1
Records (Documents) 1
Redridge (Mich.) 1
Reports 1
Slides (photographs) 1
Stanton Township (Houghton County, Mich. : Township) 1
Surveys (Documents) 1
Technical drawings 1
Trimountain (Mich.) 1
Upper Peninsula (Mich.) 1
White Pine (Mich.) 1
White Pine Mine (Mich.) 1
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