"Atlas Powder in Senter, Michigan" Research Papers, 1929-2007.

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"Atlas Powder in Senter, Michigan" Research Papers, 1929-2007.

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Research papers, 1929-2007, for the book "Atlas Powder in Senter, Michigan" by Bill Haller, a resident of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Copper Country historian. Includes correspondence, clippings of articles, newspapers, photographs, handbooks and manuals as well as research papers, maps and drafts.

1.5 cubic feet; 4 manuscript boxes, 1 folder.

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

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

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Atlas Powder Company

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The mines of Michigan's Copper Country were generally self-reliant; however, there were at least three things they could not find along the Keweenaw Peninsula - coal, iron and explosives. These items were transported, often at great expense, to Michigan from elsewhere. In an attempt to lower these costs, the controlling interests of the Tamarack and Osceola Mines, and later Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Company invested in the area's first explosives plant at Woodside in 1884. When thi...

Haller, Bill.

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William (Bill) Haller was a manufacturing chemist, founding two corporations that developed industrial applications for hybrid polymer alloys. Following his retirement, Haller began to research the history of the chemical industry in Michigan's western Upper Peninsula, in particular the Atlas Powder plant at Senter, Michigan, and its dynamite manufacturing processes. The mines of Michigan's Copper Country were generally self-reliant; however, there were three things they...