"Red Metal: The Calumet and Hecla Story" Manuscript, Before 1952.

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"Red Metal: The Calumet and Hecla Story" Manuscript, Before 1952.

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Manuscript, before 1952, for the book "Red Metal: The Calumet and Hecla Story" by C. Harry Benedict. Includes 20 unopened copies of the printed book as well as printer's plates for the book's illustrations.

3 cubic feet; 2 paige boxes and 4 manuscript boxes.

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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SNAC Resource ID: 7788683

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company

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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...

Benedict, C. Harry 1876-1963.

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C. Harry Benedict was born in Pittsburg, PA in 1876 where he attended public schools until attending Cornell University. Teaching at Cornell for just a year, he soon moved to Michigan's Copper Country to take a job with Calumet & Hecla Mining Company. He was associated with Calumet & Hecla for 50 years, 47 of which were spent as chief metallurgist. Benedict was the author of "Red metal: the Calumet and Hecla story," a history of the company.<CR><CR>He was also a lecturer at M...