Abstract Files, undated, of newspaper clippings and printed ephemera compiled by the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections in Houghton, Michigan. Includes regional historical information about Michigan's Copper Country and Michigan Technological University campus and events as well as biographical information on significant and noteworthy individuals in local history. Covers a broad range of topics in Copper Country history, including companies, Michigan...

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Collection, before 1970, of slides from Sperr Hall, the mining engineering building at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Includes images of Michigan's copper mining industry, particularly in the Upper Peninsula, as well as local and campus scenery.

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Photograph albums, 1909-1910, documenting the progress of mine construction at the Winona Copper Company, the King Philip Copper Company, and the Challenge Mine sites in Houghton County, Michigan.

Abstract Abstracts, circa 1845-circa 1929, compiled by Calumet and Hecla in support of the publication of USGS Professional Paper 144. Files contain information abstracted from a variety of sources including newspaper and magazine articles, published stockholder reports, mine superintendent reports, state and federal geological surveys, and unpublished company reports. Many files include blueprint maps of underground workings, surface buildings and property ownership. More than one hundred mines and...

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Scrapbook pages, circa 1920, from two instructional scrapbooks documenting mining engineering field trips. Includes labeled black-and-white photographs of mine interior and exterior structures.

Abstract Records, 1910-1937, of the North Lake Mining Company as well as the South Lake Mining Company and the Franklin Mining Company. Includes minutes of stockholder meetings, directors meetings and by-laws for the North Lake Mining Company, stockholder meetings, stock and accounting records for the South Lake Mining Company and cost records of the Franklin Mining Company. Also includes a division of time and labor ledger that records the amount of time spent on various tasks such as timbering,...

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Diary, 1946-1950 and 1956-1961, of Peter Richard Steinen, transcribed and compiled by his grandson, Robert J. Steinen.

Abstract Collection, 1917-2016, from the Quincy Mine Hoist Association. Includes board of directors' records, photographs, negatives, clippings, postcards, correspondence, blueprints, publications and other printed ephemera related to Quincy Mining Company as well as the establishment of the Quincy Mine Hoist Association. Also includes slides of the paintings by James K. Lawton of various Quincy Mining Company buildings hanging in the museum. James Lawton is the nephew of Charles Lawton, a Quincy...

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Photographs, circa 1910, depicting the construction and interiors of the Quincy Mine Hoist No. 2.

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Photograph collection, undated, featuring glass plate negatives of the Quincy Mining Company in Hancock, Michigan and the Huron Mining Company in Houghton, Michigan. Both mine and mill sites are depicted, as well as other Copper Country locations.