Crew stoking the boilers at the Calumet Mine in Breen Township

This unidentified crew worked stoking the boilers at the Calumet Mine in Breen Township. The photograph was probably taken after the Verona Mining Company reopened the Calumet Mine in late 1905 or early 1906. The cast iron doors at the left bear the label Iron Bay Iron Co., 1884, Marquette, Michigan. Note the miner at the right in the back with a pipe in his mouth is wearing an oilskin mining hat with his miner’s candlestick attached. [Beatrice Blomquist], Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Abstract/Description: This unidentified crew worked stoking the boilers at the Calumet Mine in Breen Township. The photograph was probably taken after the Verona Mining Company reopened the Calumet Mine in late 1905 or early 1906. The cast iron doors at the left bear the label Iron Bay Iron Co., 1884, Marquette, Michigan. Note the miner at the right in the back with a pipe in his mouth is wearing an oilskin mining hat with his miner’s candlestick attached. [Beatrice Blomquist]
Subject(s): Mines and mineral resources
Boilers
Portraits, Group
Breen Township (Mich.)
Date Created: 1905 (approximate)
Title: Crew stoking the boilers at the Calumet Mine in Breen Township.
Name(s): Dickinson County Library, contributor
Cummings, William John, contributor
Blomquist, Beatrice, contributor
Superiorland Library Cooperative, contributor
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1905 (approximate)
Physical Form: photographs
Extent: 1 item
Abstract/Description: This unidentified crew worked stoking the boilers at the Calumet Mine in Breen Township. The photograph was probably taken after the Verona Mining Company reopened the Calumet Mine in late 1905 or early 1906. The cast iron doors at the left bear the label Iron Bay Iron Co., 1884, Marquette, Michigan. Note the miner at the right in the back with a pipe in his mouth is wearing an oilskin mining hat with his miner’s candlestick attached. [Beatrice Blomquist]
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Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Subject(s): Mines and mineral resources
Boilers
Portraits, Group
Breen Township (Mich.)
Held by: Dickinson County Library
Restrictions on Access: No Copyright (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
Is Part Of: Dickinson County Library photographs. Identifier: SLC-005
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