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Title
View of the Norway Mine
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Mines and mineral resources

Item Number
AF01a115

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 taken in 1886, this view, looking east shows part of the Norway Mine. The Norway Mine was one of the few Dickinson County Mines worked as an open pit. ""Part of Norway Mine [---]; Looking East; Penn Mines; May 1886"" is printed on the photograph.

View of the Norway Mine

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