Collection Scope and Content Summary From the Collection: Photograph collection, 1889-1895, of Frederick Fraley Sharpless, a former professor of the Michigan Mining School in Houghton, Michigan and mining engineer consultant. Includes an album of cyanotype photographs as well as a collection of glass plate slides depicting local and mining scenes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, taken during his tenure at the Michigan School of Mines. There is also a speech given by Sharpless to accompany the slides. The photographs duplicate most of the glass slides...

Collection Scope and Content Summary From the Collection: Photograph collection, 1889-1895, of Frederick Fraley Sharpless, a former professor of the Michigan Mining School in Houghton, Michigan and mining engineer consultant. Includes an album of cyanotype photographs as well as a collection of glass plate slides depicting local and mining scenes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, taken during his tenure at the Michigan School of Mines. There is also a speech given by Sharpless to accompany the slides. The photographs duplicate most of the glass slides...

Collection Scope and Content Summary From the Collection: Photograph collection, 1889-1895, of Frederick Fraley Sharpless, a former professor of the Michigan Mining School in Houghton, Michigan and mining engineer consultant. Includes an album of cyanotype photographs as well as a collection of glass plate slides depicting local and mining scenes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, taken during his tenure at the Michigan School of Mines. There is also a speech given by Sharpless to accompany the slides. The photographs duplicate most of the glass slides...