EAGLE RIVER MICHIGAN COPPER MINING HARBOR DAGUERREOTYPE

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We offer 21 early photography items in the auction format every week. In addition, we list several BUY IT NOW features. DESCRIPTION. Daguerreotype of a print depicting a paddle boat at the mouth of the Eagle River entering Copper Harbor in Michigan. At the bottom is a caption, backwards, that reads: “View of the Mouth of Eagle River." This image is related to the copper mining boom of the time period. SIZE. Sixth plate. HOUSING. Split case. CONDITION & APPEARANCE. The plate is in fair to poor condition with scratches, wipes, staining, and spots. There is a bubble in the sky area that is on the glass and this would be improved by new glass. Low contrast. The content is what makes this a special image. VISIT OUR WEBSITE by clicking on the ME icon and then clicking on ‘Greg French Early Photography Website’. On Mar-01-10 at 20:12:34 PST, seller added the following information: "......the fabulous Cliff Mine began producing the first mass copper that was not also float copper. The Cliff Mine was near Eagle Harbor, 19 miles west of Copper Harbor..... Huge pieces of metal, some weighing more than 50 tons, were discovered where they had been deposited. They lay deep beneath the surface, undisturbed by the glaciers which had gouged out so many other specimens, scattered them around the country and tricked so many early miners. In 1849, the Cliff hit rich vein rock. Pure copper masses, some weighing 100 tons, were chiseled, hammered, blasted, cut in pieces and hauled to the surface bit by bit....." Source: Exploring the North website. "The first successful mines were the Cliff Mine near Eagle River and the Minesota.... Mine near Rockland in Ontonagon County. Both mines opened in the 1840s on veins where copper was found in masses weighing up to 1,000 tons....." Source: Michigan Historical Museum website. "From 1843 to the 1920's, the Upper Peninsula was the only place on earth where pure, workable native copper was found in commercial quantities. The copper found on Lake Superior came out of the ground so free of adulterants that it could be formed into pots and pans without refining or processing......A lively village grew up around the fabulous Cliff Mine, established in 1844 by John Hayes, a pharmacist from Pittsburgh, PA. It was the first profitable mine in the Keweenaw. At its peak, 840 men were employed. Great copper masses were found regularly at the Cliff Mine. Many were so immense (50-100 tons) they required days of cutting before they could be divided into sections small enough to transport to the dock at Eagle River. The Cliff produced over 40 million pounds of copper. The village was clustered around the mine at the base of the cliff where a cemetery still exists across the west branch of the Eagle River.....The Cliff Mine closed in 1873." Source: Ghost Towns of the Keweenaw Peninsula website.