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Upper Peninsula Michigan, USA, 1905.

Miners pose with lunch pails in hand on a pile of "poor rock" (waste rock) outside of the Tamarack mineshaft. In the background is the Tamarack #5 Shaft-Rockhouse. This mine was one of the most productive mines in w:Copper Country. The men are carrying lunch pails. Some are in work clothes, and others in street clothes suggesting photo may have been made at start or end of a shift.

Image retouched: dust cleaned up by Howcheng.
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Keweenaw National Historical Park archives, Jack Foster Collection. Downloaded from http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/byways/photos/61352. Also available from the National Archives:

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Adolph F. Isler (1848–1912)  wikidata:Q133500400
 
Alternative names
Adolf F. Isler; Adolph Isler; A.F. Isler
Description photographer, druggist and mail carrier
Date of birth/death 20 December 1848 Edit this at Wikidata 23 January 1912 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Zurich Edit this at Wikidata Ann Arbor Edit this at Wikidata
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