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Upper Peninsula Michigan, USA, 1905.

Miners pose with lunch pails in hand on a pile of "poor rock" (waste rock) outside of the Tamarack mineshaft. In the background is the Tamarack #5 Shaft-Rockhouse. This mine was one of the most productive mines in w:Copper Country. The men are carrying lunch pails. Some are in work clothes, and others in street clothes suggesting photo may have been made at start or end of a shift.
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Source Keweenaw National Historical Park archives, Jack Foster Collection. Downloaded from http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/byways/photos/61352
Author Adolph F. Isler (1848-1912); dust cleaned up by Howcheng.
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