I was looking (online) at Michigan 'Copper Country' photographs, from the 1890s and early 1900s, that are in the Library of Congress collection.
The Library has a big portfolio of period photos of the operations from the Quincy Mining Company, which is now a National Park Historic Site.
Quincy Mine, nicknamed "Old Reliable", was a huge provider of Michigan Copper and never failed to pay a dividend to shareholders, during its operation.
One photo shows a posted wartime work notice, from 1918, that is printed in English, Italian, Finnish, Croatian, Polish and maybe Slovenian or Russian.
Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula was quite the melting pot, when my parents and grandparents were children.
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