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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.

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Photograph collection, 1998, black-and-white photographs taken in 1998 by Nancy Fisher documenting the remaining Quincy Mining Company housing in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. Also includes photocopies of maps showing the different housing locations on Quincy Hill including Limerick, Pewabic, Lower Pewabic, and Sing Sing.

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Photograph collection, 1913-1914, assembled by Louis G. Koepel, long-time employee of the Quincy Mining Company in Hancock, Michigan.

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Survey, circa 1978, of the Quincy Mining Company in Hancock, Michigan for the Historic American Engineering Record. Includes narrative report detailing business and economic history, technological changes, housing and community service. Also includes photographs taken for the survey and measured drawings, detailing not only the structures but the processes of mining as well.

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Papers, circa 1965-circa 1979, of Dr. Raymond Lloyd Smith, sixth president of Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Includes minutes, correspondence and clippings as well as files and reports on long range planning, campus building plans, the Ford Forestry Center and the Sault St. Marie branch of Michigan Technolgical University. Also includes photographs and audiovisual materials.

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Records, circa 1951-circa 1979, concerning the disposition of the Redridge dam and emergency repair efforts. Includes correspondence, documents from both the Copper Range Company and Stanton Township and photographs.

Abstract Collection, 1870-1996; 2005, compiled by Reverend Herman Page on the history of Michigan's Copper Country with a particular focus on Copper Country railroads. This collection covers most of the railroads of the Copper Country including the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway, the Mineral Range Railroad, and the Hancock and Calumet Railroad as well as information on various mining companies and locations in the Copper Country. Includes glass plate negatives, photographs, clippings,...

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Papers, 1942-circa 2010, documenting the early life and military career of Robert E. Sherman, including personal recollections of his time on the Manhattan Project, local newspaper coverage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, enlistment and discharge papers, and letters from superior officers and J. Robert Oppenheimer, among other materials.

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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.

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Two hundred-forty three color slides, approximately 1950s-1960s, of powerline construction sites taken by Robert Schwaderer.