Copper mines and mining -- Michigan -- Painesdale
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
J. Robert Van Pelt Copper Range Company Research Collection
Collection — Box 1-17
Identifier: MS-028
Abstract
Dr. John Robert ("Bob") Van Pelt was Michigan Tech's sixth president, serving the campus from 1956 to 1965. After he stepped down, Van Pelt began work on a history of the Copper Range Company (whose board he had joined in 1961). The manuscript was unfinished when the Copper Range Company was acquired by Louisiana Land and Exploration in 1977. The collection contains files related to Van Pelt's incomplete manuscript about the history of the Copper Range Company. The bulk of the material...
Dates:
1840s-1977
Painesdale Oral History Project
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-326
Abstract
Oral history project, 1984-1987, conducted by Lillian Tretin as part of her dissertation through the University of Michigan, "Traprock workers: the culture of work and risk at an underground copper mine, 1900-1945." Includes cassettes as well as transcriptions of the interviews of local residents of Painesdale, Michigan, a company town for the Champion Mining Company, a subsidiary of the Copper Range Company.
Dates:
1984-1987
W. J. Richards Notebook
Collection — Sc_box MS 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-112
Abstract
Notebook, 1906-1918, of W. J. Richards, a master mechanic at the Champion Copper Co. of Painesdale, Michigan. Photocopy of 6 ring binder with published materials including different tables of weights, strengths and calculations. Near end of notebook are tables of calculations for the Champion, Trimountain and Baltic mines.
Dates:
1906-1918