Mine towns : buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country /

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During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America's first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region's vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location--and work long hours in dangerous conditio...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hoagland, Alison K., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Company town architecture > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula.
Architecture, Domestic > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula.
Architecture and society > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula > History > 19th century.
Architecture and society > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula > History > 20th century.
Architecture et société > Michigan > Keweenaw, Péninsule de > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Architecture et société > Michigan > Keweenaw, Péninsule de > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Residential.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Domestic.
Company town architecture.
Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula.
History.
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