D Shaft of Chapin Mine

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Content type
Content type
Image
Collection(s)
Collection(s)
Dickinson County Library photographs
Additional/Alternative Titles
Additional/Alternative Titles
Title
D Shaft of Chapin Mine
Organizations
Organizations
Contributor (ctb): Dickinson County Library
Contributor (ctb): Cummings, William John
Contributor (ctb): Menominee Range Historical Museum
Contributor (ctb): Superiorland Library Cooperative
Resource Type
Resource Type
Still image
Description / Synopsis
Description / Synopsis
Photograph of the freezing process used to sink D Shaft of the Chapin Mine through over 90 feet of rock and loose sand. This historic photograph of the freezing process records what may have been the first such attempt in the United States.
Language
Language
English
Subject Topic
Subject Topic
Mines and mineral resources
Mine shafts
Geographic Subject
Geographic Subject
Iron Mountain (Mich.)
Origin Information
Origin Information
Date Created
1888 (year approximate)
Extent
Extent
1 item
Physical Form
Physical Form
photographs
Digital Origin
Digital Origin
digitized other analog
Related Item
Related Item
Relationship Type
host
Title
Dickinson County Library photographs
Identifier
SLC-005
Note
Note
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
Rights Statement
Rights Statement
NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES

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“D Shaft of Chapin Mine”. Photographs. Dickinson County Library photographs. https://uplink.nmu.edu/node/79470.
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