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"A picture is worth a thousand words", or in the case of this image - thousands of trees.  The picture that inspired the post, the timber yard of the Oliver Iron Mining Co. within its Leonidas open-pit mine, Eveleth, MN - circa 1915 (James Steel Collection, State Archives of Minnesota) It has been over a month since my last blog post - I've been busy working on my dissertation proposal, and recently returned from a really fruitful trip to a handful of archives in Minnesota. I'm still processing much of what I gathered at the archives - (and will be doing so for a number of months) - but I have been dwelling on the image above and what it says about the mining industry: What cultural and environmental impacts of past mining have we forgotten? and What other hidden impacts of mining might we begin to reconsider?
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This morning I came across this great collection of historical sketches of some prominent Michigan individuals at the turn of the 20th century. There are roughly 60 illustrations of folks from the U.P., including this image of the John Longyear - a Michigan native who was influential in shaping the landscapes of the Lake Superior Iron District.  From, "A Gallery of Pen Sketches in Black and White of our Michigan Friends "as we see 'em." By: The Newspaper Cartoonists' Association - August 26, 1905. You can easily scan the images by clicking on the second link from the top of the page that I've linked above. Enjoy! Does anyone know of anything similar for Minnesota or Wisconsin? |
AuthorJohn Baeten is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Spatial Analysis of Environmental Change in the Department of Geography at Indiana University. He holds a PhD in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology from Michigan Technological University. His research aims to connect historical process to current environmental challenges, and to contextualize the environmental legacies of industrialization as meaningful cultural heritage. Archives
September 2018
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