Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Stereographs

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-638

Staff Only

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Stereographs, circa 1910, produced by the Keystone View Company depicting the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company operations in Calumet, Michigan. Images include above ground and below ground mining scenes, as well as miners, buildings, and railroads.

Dates

Circa 1910

Access

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

Conditions Governing Use

Various copying restrictions apply. Guidelines are available from Michigan Technological University Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biography

The Keystone View Company was a major distributor of stereographic images, and was located in Meadville, Pennsylvania. From 1892 through 1963 Keystone produced and distributed both educational and comic/sentimental stereoviews, and stereoscopes. By 1905 it was the world's largest stereographic company. In 1963 Department A (stereoviews sold to individual families) and the Education Departments were closed down, but Keystone continued to manufacture eye-training stereographic products as a subsidiary of Mast Development Company. In 1972 Mast closed the Meadville manufacturing site.