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Title
View of Iron Mountain's Chapin Mine, facing east
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Mines and mineral resources

Subject
Cities and towns -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula

Item Number
AF01a044

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 east. Notice how the Chapin Location, located to the left in this photograph has grown significantly. Numerous tramways come from various shafts at the foot of Millie Hill where the iron ore was dumped into waiting ore cars.

View of Iron Mountain

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