Abstract Collection, 1848-1988, of the Quincy Mining Company of Hancock, Michigan. Documents the development of the company from its humble start in 1846 through the cessation of underground mining in 1931 and the sale and disbursement of its Michigan properties in the 1970s and 1980s. 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...

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Newspaper clippings, 1861-1868,

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Photograph collection, circa 1925, by Robert H. Boehmer, a 1925 graduate of the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan.

Abstract Roy Ward Drier (1897-1974) was a lifelong resident of Calumet, Michigan. A graduate of the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University), Drier began collecting historical material for what was formally known as the Keweenawan Collection in the summer of 1933. For the following several decades, Drier would amass a significant collection of historical records relating to the Copper Country. The collection contains a substantial amount of historical materials collected by...

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Time books, 1871-1876, from the copper mining company Schoolcraft Mining Company in Calumet, Michigan and the lead mining company Elevator Mine in Wisconsin.

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Collection, 1853-1978, of the St. Mary's Canal Mineral Land Company of Boston, Massachusetts, a land holder with mineral rights on property along the Lake Superior copper region. Includes correspondence, financial records, land deeds and holdings, field journals and reports. Material in this collection complements material in the Copper Range Company Collection.

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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.

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Collection, before 1989, consisting of aperature cards produced by the United States Bureau of Mines. Contains microfilmed underground maps, primarily from Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan. Also includes an index for the aperature cards.

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Unprocessed material, undated, removed from the Calumet and Hecla Public Library building in Calumet, Michigan. Includes mixed records and oversize material, mostly relating to the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company.

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Photograph collection, circa 1947, taken by Wendell J. Kraft with preservation help by his wife, M. Jean Kraft. Photographs and negative include aerial images of Houghton and Keweenaw Counties in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Also includes some historic mine site photographs.