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Adventure mine surface map including mine limits, no date or title. Adventure mining company reports, claims, business letters, newspaper clippings, permits, contracts, maps, books, and payroll information.

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Research papers, undated, created and compiled by Marko Lulich used in writing the book, "Akogibing, at, in, from, or to the Lake Called Akogib." Includes handwritten notes, excerpts from other sources, maps, newspaper articles and photographs. The main focus of the collected documents is Michigan's Lake Gogebic region, but some surrounding towns are included as well.

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Papers, 1888-2000, collected and produced by Dr. Allan M. Johnson during his career as student, professor, and research leader at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Includes research material, articles and photographs relating to different geological projects, scientific journals and papers. The majority of these pertain to minerals of the Upper Peninsula as well as the safety and environmental issues of local mines in the Upper Peninsula.

Abstract Collection, 1747; 1800-1975, bulk 1890-1970, of Ben R. Chynoweth, a resident of Hancock, Michigan and amateur historian of Isle Royale, Michigan. Collection documents the shipping, mining endeavors and fishing industry of Isle Royale in addition to the formation of Isle Royale National Park in 1940. Photographs in the collection show the island's geographical features, the people, the fishing industry, and the Great Lakes ships. Includes pamphlets, correspondence, maps, scrapbooks and...

Abstract Drawings, 1871-1970, of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Companies. Contains hand sketches, tracings, blueprints and related manuscript items as well as a card index created by the company. Includes more than 80,000 engineering and architectural drawings gathered by the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company during its active life as a copper mining company in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. Much of the machinery was built in-house at Calumet and Hecla and they also had need of maps of both aboveground...

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Map collection, circa 1896-circa 1966, of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Includes geological maps of surface and underground mines and properties owned by the company as well as properties owned by other entities. Also includes some mechanical drawings of machinery and building plans for company-owned buildings.

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A collection of research papers prepared by former Calumet High School Principal, R. Charles Stetter, concerning the Central Mine in Keweenaw County, Michigan. Includes photographs, photocopies, research notes, clippings and manuscript documents.

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Report, 1973-2005, on the archaeological excavation of Site 20 KE 53, Cliff Mine in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, done in 1973 by Eleanor Andrews, at that time on the faculty of Michigan Technological University's Department of Social Sciences. Includes the final report, maps, references, bibliographies, research notes and field notes and material.

Abstract The Copper Range Company (1899-1977) operated copper mines in Houghton County's southern communities and in Ontonagon County. The second largest mining company in the Copper Country (after Calumet & Hecla), the Copper Range Company was the only one to endure past the 1960s. In addition to mining, it owned and operated the Copper Range Railroad (1899-1973) and the Copper Range Motor Bus Company (1925-1955). Materials in the Copper Range Company Records document the history of the...

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Papers, 1830-1846, of Douglass Houghton, Michigan's first state geologist as well as a physician and scientist. Includes correspondence, survey maps, geological field notes for the interior Lower Peninsula, the shorelines of the Lower and Upper Peninsulas, and the southern shoreline of Lake Superior, Isle Royale, and the Upper Peninsula. Also includes a calendar and a small index volume with names.