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]