Photo Record
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Metadata
Title |
Engine house at "Big Pit" |
Object Name |
Photograph |
Other number |
P024050 |
Description |
View of the engine house at the Palmer Hill iron mine from one of the pits, operated by the J&J Rogers Company. Writing on the back reads: "Engine house at 'Big Pit' / This pit about 1600 ft deep.[?] about [?] ft cross section at largest point- about 20 x 20 at bottom of mine". Under that section reads: "Road in foreground leads / to 'Summit pit' which / connects near bottom with pit / of Peru Steel Ore" |
Date |
1900ca |
Photographer |
Graves, Harry D. |
Collection |
Photo Collection |
Search Terms |
mine mine, mining mine, structure mines and mining mining mining, mine Palmer Hill ore separator lumbering sluice gate loggers logging logs iron Iron industry and trade Iron mine and mining Iron mines and mining Iron Ore iron, mining mines and mining, iron mining, iron Rogers J & J Rogers Company J. & J. Rogers Iron Company (Au Sable Forks, N.Y.); J. &. J. Rogers pit |
Subjects |
Mine buildings Mines Mining Loggers Sluices Ore industry Lumber Lumber industry Lumbering Iron mining |
People |
Graves, Harry |
Studio |
unidentified |
Catalog Number |
1973.093.0150 |
Notes |
This photograph was lent with a number of others to the Rogers family, the original source. It was returned with the accession of #2021.065. Title taken from writing on verso. |