Frederick Fraley Sharpless Photograph Collection, 1889-1895.

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Frederick Fraley Sharpless Photograph Collection, 1889-1895.

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Photograph collection, 1889-1895, of Frederick Fraley Sharpless, a former professor of the Michigan Mining School in Houghton, Michigan and mining engineer consultant. Includes an album of cyanotype photographs as well as a collection of glass plate slides depicting local and mining scenes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, taken during his tenure at the Michigan School of Mines. The photographs duplicate most of the glass slides and provide captions for identification.

0.1 cubic feet : 4 manuscript boxes.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 8031257

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

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