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Title
Railroad gang
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Railroads -- Employees

Subject
Portraits, Group

Item Number
AF01a121

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
Extremely early and unidentified photograph may record a crew from the railroad gang which cut, graded and laid the tracks from Powers to the new iron mines during 1877. The somber men appear well-equipped with shovels, sledge hammers and pick-like hammers used to drive railroad spikes.

Railroad gang

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