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Photograph album, circa 1913, with scenes of Houghton and Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, taken by A.L. Dickerman, a mining engineer. Includes photographs of the Mayflower, Old Colony and Wolverine mines as well as scenes from the 1913-1914 Michigan copper miners' strike.

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Payroll records, 1891-1905, of the Allouez Mining Company. Bound volume lists employees alphabetically and tallies earnings as well as deductions for rent, fuel, supplies, doctors, club fees, mine store and mine meat store purchases.

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Research collection, before 2004, contains research notes, photographs and other material relating to research conducted by Erik C. Nordberg and Frank Lewis Orrell into the history of the Arizona and Michigan Mining Company, as well as other links between mining in these two states.

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Records, 1898-1907, of the Arnold Mining Company of Copper Falls, Michigan.

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Diary collection, 1866-1897, of the Brockway family, including Daniel D. Brockway, his wife Lucena Brockway, J. N. Scott and his wife Mrs. J. N. Scott. It is probable that this last individual is the Brockway's daughter, Sarah L. Scott, one of the earliest white persons to have been born in the Lake Superior region. The majority of the diaries (twenty-seven of the thirty-two items) are by Lucena Brockway.

Abstract Collection, 1855-1973, of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Companies of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Includes corporate records, administrative correspondence, financial and legal documentation, employment and medical records, property and miners’ housing records, as well as operational records from the company’s underground, surface, stamp mill, reclamation, railroad, and smelting operations. Also includes records of numerous subsidiary and related companies operating in the Michigan copper...

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Media collection, circa 1954-circa 1961, of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. Includes audio and moving image recordings documenting copper mining and manufacturing, the Osceola unwatering project, union/labor relations, community events, safety awareness and work procedures, and agriculture.

Abstract Photograph collection, 1892-1967, of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. Images document all aspects of mining company activity: rocks, drilling and blasting, timbering, tramming, rockhouses, milling, smelting, electrolytic, dredge, leaching, docks and shipping, engines and compressors, pumps, surface shops, and power plants. Also includes photographs from more than twenty Calumet and Hecla companies, including the mines (Calumet and Hecla, Ahmeek, Allouez, Centennial, Isle Royale,...

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Progress reports, 1929-1930, of the Cliff Mine in the now-abandoned town of Clifton, Michigan. Consists of weekly progress reports by the Geological Division of Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company.

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Collection, 1971-2009, of slides, print photographs, and mounted images created and maintained by photographer, Dan Behnke.