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Title
Early view of Iron Mountain facing west toward Pine Mountain
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Mines and mineral resources

Subject
Company stores

Item Number
AF01a111

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 early Iron Mountain taken near the Ludington Mine looking down to what is now the east side of the Chapin Pit. The large two-story white building at the right was the Menominee Mining Company Store for the Chapin Mine.

Early view of Iron Mountain facing west toward Pine Mountain

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