Copper mines and mining -- Michigan
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph and Richard M. Hoar papers
Collection
Identifier: 00004
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, papers, and books of Joseph and Richard M. Hoar. The Mssrs. Hoar were brothers, born in England in the early nineteenth century. Joseph emigrated to the United States first (the exact date is unknown), and entered the general merchandise business in Houghton (Houghton County), Michigan. Richard M. Hoar emigrated to Toronto, Canada, in 1854 and in 1859 moved to Houghton where he and Joseph formed a dry goods business under the name of J. Hoar and...
Dates:
1859 - 1912
Kenneth Hopkins collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00663
Scope and Contents
The Kenneth Hopkins collection contains 6 lantern slides of Michigan scenes including harvesting celery, salt mining, loading copper onto a ship, pouring molten copper into molds, mining cars full of copper ore, and the locks at Sault Ste. Marie.
Dates:
undated