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Title
Earliest photograph of Iron Mountain's Chapin Mine
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Mines and mineral resources

Subject
Miners

Subject
Logging

Item Number
AF01a037

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 Iron Mountain's Chapin Mine, facing west. This is the earliest known photo, thought to date from the fall of 1879, actually may have been taken in the spring of 1880 due to the numerous frame buildings in the background.

Earliest photograph of Iron Mountain

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