The Making of Modern Michigan - "Digitizing Michigan's Hidden Past"

Title

Mining officials from Iron Mountain's Ludington Mine

Institution

Dickinson County Library

Subject

Miners

Subject

Portraits, Group

Item Number

AF01a140

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 mining officials from Iron Mountain's Ludington Mine posed for and Appleton, Wis. photographer between 1883 and 1890. They are identified as follows (back row) William B. Catlin, surface boss, Robert Bankes, cashier and later superintendent; A.D. Moore, superintendent; Harry McDermott, master mechanic; Francis A. Brown, chief chemist; Sam Spear, bookkeeper; (front row) Captain Grey; Captain Sam Langdon; Captain Henry Sheilds; Morris Danielson, blacksmith; Tom Hancock, carpenter.

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