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American Finnish Mining Company interior views of the ore house


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    American Finnish Mining Company exterior views of buildings

    Manuscripts

    Photographs include interior images of a mine shaft with men laboring in the tunnels.

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    American Finnish Mining Company exterior and interior views of the ore house and refinery buildings

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of 790 items from 1868 to 1945; it includes correspondence (including 29 letter books), documents, and photographs related to the career of John Daniell, Sr. (1839-1898) and his son, mining engineer John Daniell, Jr. (1874-1960). Subjects include: the operation and development of the Michigan mines and related railroads; labor conditions; the activities of rival companies; mining finance; stock market speculations; and national and international mining syndicates. There is also some information on mining in Arizona and Montana. Over 500 letters in the collection addressed to John Daniell, Sr. are chiefly from Albert S. Bigelow and officers of the Bigelow-Clark Syndicate in Boston, Massachusetts. Three letter books and correspondence belonging to John Daniell, Jr. are chiefly concerned with mining in Finland, Arizona, and Montana, where the younger Daniell worked as a mining engineer from 1899 to 1923.

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    Finnish American Mining Company (Calumet, Michigan), volume 27

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of 790 items from 1868 to 1945; it includes correspondence (including 29 letter books), documents, and photographs related to the career of John Daniell, Sr. (1839-1898) and his son, mining engineer John Daniell, Jr. (1874-1960). Subjects include: the operation and development of the Michigan mines and related railroads; labor conditions; the activities of rival companies; mining finance; stock market speculations; and national and international mining syndicates. There is also some information on mining in Arizona and Montana. Over 500 letters in the collection addressed to John Daniell, Sr. are chiefly from Albert S. Bigelow and officers of the Bigelow-Clark Syndicate in Boston, Massachusetts. Three letter books and correspondence belonging to John Daniell, Jr. are chiefly concerned with mining in Finland, Arizona, and Montana, where the younger Daniell worked as a mining engineer from 1899 to 1923.

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    Finnish American Mining Company (Calumet, Michigan), volume 28

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of 790 items from 1868 to 1945; it includes correspondence (including 29 letter books), documents, and photographs related to the career of John Daniell, Sr. (1839-1898) and his son, mining engineer John Daniell, Jr. (1874-1960). Subjects include: the operation and development of the Michigan mines and related railroads; labor conditions; the activities of rival companies; mining finance; stock market speculations; and national and international mining syndicates. There is also some information on mining in Arizona and Montana. Over 500 letters in the collection addressed to John Daniell, Sr. are chiefly from Albert S. Bigelow and officers of the Bigelow-Clark Syndicate in Boston, Massachusetts. Three letter books and correspondence belonging to John Daniell, Jr. are chiefly concerned with mining in Finland, Arizona, and Montana, where the younger Daniell worked as a mining engineer from 1899 to 1923.

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    Photographs

    Manuscripts

    The series consists of thirty-six mounted black-and-white images possibly depicting the mining town of Orijavi, Risko, Finland between 1910 and 1913 during John Daniell, Jr.'s employment as an engineer with the Finnish American Mining Company. The photographs capture exterior and interior views of the mine operations, the miners in a shaft, horse teams moving mechanical equipment, the townspeople, and various buildings. A portrait of John Daniell Sr. is also present in the collection (Box 5).

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    Interior and exterior view of the Compton Grain and Milling Company

    Visual Materials

    View of the exterior of the wooden Compton Grain and Milling Company building in Compton, California, with men standing at front with a team of horses (photPF 24895) and a view of the interior of the building with two men standing amid wooden beams, grain sacks, and machinery (photPF 24896).

    photPF 24895-24896