Quincy Mining Company Survey for Historic American Engineering Record
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Survey, circa 1978, of the Quincy Mining Company in Hancock, Michigan for the Historic American Engineering Record. Includes narrative report detailing business and economic history, technological changes, housing and community service. Also includes photographs taken for the survey and measured drawings, detailing not only the structures but the processes of mining as well.
Dates
- Circa 1978
Access
Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.
Biography
The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes, including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Administered since 1933 through cooperative agreements with the National Park Service, the Library of Congress, and the private sector, ongoing programs of the National Park Service have recorded America's built environment in multi format surveys comprising more than 556,900 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 38,600 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century.
Extent
0.88 Cubic Feet (2 manuscript boxes (letter size), 1/2 manuscript box (letter size))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Survey, circa 1978, of the Quincy Mining Company in Hancock, Michigan for the Historic American Engineering Record. Includes narrative report detailing business and economic history, technological changes, housing and community service. Also includes photographs taken for the survey and measured drawings, detailing not only the structures but the processes of mining as well.
General Physical Description note
0.88 cubic feet2 manuscript boxes (letter size), 1/2 manuscript box (letter size)
Processing History
Elizabeth Russell,8/17/2010
- Title
- Quincy Mining Company Survey for Historic American Engineering Record
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Russell
- Date
- 8/17/2010
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections Repository