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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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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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Mining company employee payroll envelopes and pay stubs, 1897-1921, belonging to Andrew H. Koski.

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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Distribution of payroll records, 1920, 1926, of the Copper Range Railroad Company.

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Papers, 1868-1913, financial records, one photograph, and correspondence between Edwin Hulbert and Frederick Mackenzie as well as correspondence to Frederick Mackenzie to other writers.

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Records, 1934-1936, of the steamship S.S. SEMINOLE, a 188-foot steamer constructed for the U. S. Coast Guard and repurposed as a passenger ship in Houghton, Michigan after decommissioning by the Coast Guard. Includes correspondence, financial records, purchase order records, payroll records and passenger ticket stubs as well as other printed ephemera.

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Records, 1935-1948, of the Work Projects Administration (WPA), previously Works Progress Administration, projects in Houghton County, Michigan.