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Photograph collection, circa 1892-circa 1912, compiled by John F. Campbell. Includes images of Copper Country railroads, particularly the Quincy and Torch Lake Railroad.

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Collection, circa 1863-circa 1883, of mining company records compiled by Lawrence J. Remington of Houghton, Michigan. Includes stock certificates, insurance policies, indenture letters, bills and receipts, correspondence, inventories and other printed ephemera from the South Pewabic Copper Company, Sheldon Mining Company of Lake Superior, Columbian Mining Company, Quincy Mining Company and Douglass Houghton Mining Company.

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Collection, 1880-1968; 2007-2019, of the Lawton family of Michigan. Includes field notebooks of Charles DeWitt Lawton, written during his tenure as the State of Michigan Commissioner of Mineral Statistics, as well as correspondence of Charles Latham Lawton and Swaby Lawton. Also contains biographical information on family members including Charles Latham Lawton, Swaby Lawton, Nathan Oliver Lawton, Charles E. Wright and Ross Dunbar Blackburn.

Abstract Collection, 1848-1988, of the Quincy Mining Company of Hancock, Michigan. Documents the development of the company from its humble start in 1846 through the cessation of underground mining in 1931 and the sale and disbursement of its Michigan properties in the 1970s and 1980s. Includes corporate records, administrative correspondence, financial and legal documentation, employment and medical records, property and miners’ housing records, as well as operational records from the company’s...