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Title
Power plant at Quinnesec Falls
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Power-plants

Subject
Waterfalls

Subject
Carriages and carts

Item Number
AF01a002

Relation
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

Description
Photograph of the Hydraulic Power Company's plant at Quinnesec Falls on the Menominee River in Iron Mountain, Michigan. A pipeline supplying compressed air to the Chapin, Ludington, and Emmet mines runs from the stone compressor building. Gust Tollen drives the horse and buggy that also appears in the photograph. ""US steel fabrication power plant Quinnesec Falls Iron Mountain Mich. Chapin Mine"" is printed on the photograph.

Power plant at Quinnesec Falls

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