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Title
Crew stoking the boilers at the Calumet Mine in Breen Township
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Mines and mineral resources

Subject
Boilers

Subject
Portraits, Group

Item Number
AF01a096

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 an unidentified crew stoking the boilers at the Calumet Mine in Breen Township. This photograph was probably taken after the Verona Mining Company reopened the Calumet Mine in late 1905 or early 1906. Note the miner at the right in the back, with a pipe in his mouth wearing an oilskin mining hat with his miner's candlestick attached.

Crew stoking the boilers at the Calumet Mine in Breen Township

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