Jack Foster interview, 1974 July 22.

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Jack Foster interview, 1974 July 22.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173298080

Topics include the work of the company police; ethnic groups; miners' recreation; Saturday nights in Calumet, Mich.; the number of local saloons; the 1913 and 1968 miners' strikes; and his personal collection of artifacts.

Transcript : 39 p.

Finnish American Historical Archive and Museum

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The Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, which traces its founding to 1864, was the most successful corporation to have mined native copper on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through nearly a century of mining activity, the company produced in excess of 4.5 billion pounds of refined copper and issued over $200 million in shareholder dividends. Unlike many of its competitors along the Keweenaw Peninsula, Calumet and Hecla successfully expanded its operations over several separate mineral bo...

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