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August and Joseph Mayworm operated a saloon in Tamarack, Michigan and acted as agents for the C. C. Douglass Company. This collection consists of financial records of August and Joseph Mayworm. The records detail their operation of a saloon and boardinghouse, as well as their work for the C. C. Douglass Company.

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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Papers, 1923-1969, of George D. Bellows, a 1923 graduate of Michigan College of Mines. Includes a program from the 1923 commencement of Michigan College of Mines with a list of degrees conferred, correspondence and a biography of Bellows from the Paul Weir Company, a photograph of George Bellows and a leather-bound scrapbook with newspaper clippings enclosed.

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Papers, 1966, chronicling the tragic death of 7-year old Ruth Ann Miller. Miller was playing around the abandoned No. 4 shaft of the Tamarack Mine in Houghton County, Michigan when she slipped under its cap and fell to her death. Includes photocopies and scans from local and regional papers about the accident and the subsequent unsuccessful attempts at rescue and recovery. Also includes newspaper accounts about the vandalism of the memorial erected at the site.