Men who survived mine collapse
Rating
Identifier
AF01a127.jpg
Title
Men who survived mine collapse
Subject
Miners
Subject2
Mine accidents
Subject3
Portraits , Group
Description
Photograph of eleven of the twelve men who were entombed while working on the fourth level of the Pewabic Mine , when a room above them collapsed in 1894 . These eleven were rescued after over 40 hours ; the twelfth man was crushed to death under the fallin
Publisher
Dickinson County Library (Iron Mountain, Mich.)
Publisher2
Making of Modern Michigan
Contributors
Cummings, William John
Contributor2
Derwinski , Gene
Date
ca. 1900
DateDigital
08-Jan-04
Type
Image/photograph
Format
image/jpeg ; 361 KB
FormatUse
image/jpg
Source
Electronic reproduction of: Photograph of Men who survived mine collapse : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
Language
eng
Relation Reference
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
Coverage
1880-1900
CoverageSpatial
Iron Mountain (Mich.)
Rights
Materials digitized for The Making of Modern Michigan are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational u
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