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Email received from Keweenaw National Historical Park
[编辑]Dear Mr. Cheng, Thank you for your interest in featuring an historic Copper Country image on Wikipedia, and thank you for contacting us to request more information about the image. We certainly appreciate the opportunity to share the unique history of the Copper Country with such a broad audience. If you could provide a link to Keweenaw National Historical Park's homepage with the image, we would much appreciate it. Please credit the image to Keweenaw National Historical Park Archives, Jack Foster Collection. The photo you have asked about was taken by a professional photographer named Adolph F. Isler. Isler was born in Switzerland in 1848. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1854, and settled in the Copper Country. He worked as a druggist, and he was the chief pharmacist at the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company hospital from 1882-1887. In later years became a professional photographer, with studios in Calumet and Lake Linden, Michigan. Isler died in 1912. The photo of the miners at Tamarack is taken of a group of miners on a pile of "poor rock" or waste rock, which had been broken off the richer copper-bearing rock in the Tamarack #5 Shaft-Rockhouse seen in the background of the image, after it had been hauled up out of the mine. Pictures such as these were usually taken during the shift-change, just as miners were going down into, or had just come up from the mines. The men are carrying lunch pails, but some have not yet changed their street clothes for work clothes (or perhaps have already changed to go home, depending on whether they are going to work or going home from work). As you note, some of the men appear to be quite young. I will attach two short Word documents to this email, one giving more detailed information on the Tamarack Mining Company #5 shaft, excerpted from the book Tamarack Town: Mines, People, Places (1982) by Paul T. Steele, and another giving information about child-labor practices in the mines of the Copper Country, excerpted from the book Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (1991) by Larry Lankton. (See attached file: Child Labor Compilation.doc)(See attached file: Tamarack No.5.doc) Thank you again for your interest in the heritage of the Keweenaw, and please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or would like further assistance. Sincerely, Jeremiah Jeremiah Mason, Archives Technician Keweenaw National Historical Park PO Box 471, 25970 Red Jacket Rd Calumet, Michigan 49913-0471 906.337.3168 http://www.nps.gov/kewe jeremiah_mason AT nps DOT gov