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Quincy Mining Company Survey for Historic American Engineering Record

 Collection — Box: 1-3
Identifier: MS-015

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

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