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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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Records, 1867-1925, of Allouez Township in Michigan. Collection is photocopies of original records, including minutes of the Township Board, register of voters and an account book that contains a list of books in Township Library.

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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Collection, undated, of Harry T. Mercer, long-time employee of the Copper Range Mining Company and resident of Painesdale, Michigan. Includes technical drawings, a card index, and field notes.

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Memoirs, undated, written by Leonard Rajaniemi on his experiences as a copper miner in the western Upper Peninsula during the twilight years of the Michigan copper industry.