Theodore Dengler Mining Blueprints

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-464

Staff Only

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Blueprints, circa 1898-circa 1913, collected by Theodore Dengler, an alumnus of the Michigan Mining School in Houghton, Michigan. Dengler worked at the Atlantic, Baltic, Mohawk and Wolverine mines. Includes blueprints of machinery, buildings, and maps, mainly from the Atlantic and Baltic mines with some from the Mohawk, Wolverine, Allouez, Champion and Central mines. Also includes correspondence and other printed ephemera.

Dates

Circa 1898-Circa 1913

Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biography

Theodore Dengler, born in 1871 was a graduate of the Michigan Mining School in Houghton, Michigan (now Michigan Technological University). After graduation he began working in 1903 at the Atlantic and Baltic mines, first as an engineer and, starting in 1907, as the superintendent of the Atlantic mine. He was the successor in 1913 to Fred Smith as the superintendent of the Mohawk and Wolverine mines. Mr. Dengler passed away in 1940.