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Annex Rehabilitation 2007 Michigan History Day 2007 West Point Foundry in American Archaeology Images Donner Family Archaeology Project Images	Key Ingredients 2007 Quincy Kitchen Project by Nikki Drenning Chipstone Visit 2007 by Nikki Drenning Ford Saw Mill at Alberta by Nikki Drenning Archaeology Day 2005 MTU Open House 2005 West Point Foundry Barry Solomon's Trip to India

Workshop Weekend 2008
Grad students from EP & IA programs enjoy a ride on the Keweenaw Star during a special ride arranged by the Graduate School. Cider and donuts were served.

Industrial Archaeology students and faculty paused with invited speakers on a field trip during the "Industrial Heritage: Premises and Practices for the 21st Century Workshop." (27 September 2008 at the Ahmeek Mill stamp in Tamarack City)

Industrial Archaeology students and invited workshop speakers visited the Quincy smelter during the Industrial Heritage workshop (Left to right: Jessica Montcalm, Erik Nordberg, George Carter, Seth DesPasqual, Sean Gohman, Andy Mueller, Craig Wilson, Bode Morin, and Pat Malone an invitee.)


MTU Open House 2007 was held on September 29. Susanna Peters describes the major programs to prospective students.


April 2007 Industrial Archaeology graduate students visited the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Professor Solomon's class in Energy Technology & Policy (SS 3800) took a recent tour of the new CILIT building on campus to learn about its energy efficiency features, as the class completed preliminary energy audits of 6 buildings and facilities at MTU in Spring 2005.


April 2005 SS5200 Environmental Decision Making Class - their public meeting on Wind Power Scenarios for the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan.


In Spring 2004 the SS5200 Environmental Decision Making class did land use planning presentations and maps for the League of Women Voter's public land use decision making meeting. This gave them the chance to present work from their class project on local land use decision making and to be involved with planning a public meeting.

Hugh Gorman, Barry Solomon, Agustin Robles, Kathy Halvorsen, and Mirit Shamir on the Fall 2004 Environmental Policy Program hike across the ridge of Mount Ripley.				Mirit and Leo Shamir after the Fall 2004 Environmental Policy Program hike.
Agustin Robles, Samir Qadir, Dianne Sprague, and Nancy Byers-Sprague at the Michigan Tech on campus cross country ski trails in March 2004.
Winter Fun Day


IA graduate student Larry Mishkar produced five note cards using images from a Society for Industrial Archeology study tour to the Ruhr industrial area in Germany. The cards are offered as premiums to SIA members. Mishkar and IA graduate Gianfranco Archimede spent 10 days touring museums, abandoned coalmines, company towns, and an active steel mill.
	This postcard view shows a coal skip hanging from an abandoned aerial tramway in Longyearbyen, Norway. Mishkar photographed this image during a 2003 tour of the Svalbard Archipelago in preparation of a future international fieldwork session involving Michigan Tech Industrial Archaeologists during the 2004 season. Painted on the skip is the greeting: "The Aerial Tramways Technical Department Wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!" Mishkar uses this image to promote industrial heritage.

DEPARTMENT CHRISTMAS PARTY 2003
Professor Tim Scarlett contemplates the party over his cup of coffee!	Professor Kim Hoagland strikes it rich during in the gift exchange: several pounds of cheese!	Visiting professor Carl Zimring's spouse Jen models her new hat!	Professor Kathy Halvorsen helps graduate student Suika Rivett unpack her gift, a "portable writing device" -- i.e., a typewriter!

				In November 2003, Industrial Archaeology graduate students visited the Chipstone Foundation in Fox Point, Wisconsin, to examine the foundation's superb ceramics collection. The foundation, which specializes in the decorative arts, underwrote the visit to allow students to examine its superb holding in British pottery. (See Chipstone History.)

Belem Oviedo Gamez and Marco Antonio Hernandez Badillo of the Archivo Historico y Museo de Mineria in Pachuca. Mexico, during their visit to Michigan Tech in April 2003. Ms. Oviedo, director of the institution, presented a talk on industrial archaeology in Mexico, while Mr. Hernandez discussed an exhibit of contemporary and historic photographs of the Pachuca mining district.

Chinese visitors in the Industrial Archaeology Lab, Fall 2003.

Zhengyao Jin, professor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a Research Fellow in the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., presented a seminar, "The Discovery of a Large Native Copper Mine in Southwestern China: Its Significance for Provenance Study of Shang Bronzes," on Oct. 14, 2002.

Jin is the first in China to study the civilization of ancient Chinese bronzes with the lead isotope method. He and his co-workers from the United States and Japan have discovered that a large number of Shang bronze objects contain high radiogenic lead, which is similar to the lead of the Mississippi Valley type. These high radiogenic lead ore deposits exist only in the Northeastern Yunnan Province, China. He will describe the discovery of this large native copper mine and the relationship between it and the provenance study of Chinese Shang bronzes. The new native copper mine is only a few miles away from the Lemachang lead-zinc mine, which is also similar to the Mississippi-type lead. This suggests that the same deposits which comprise this new mine could have been a source of the Shang bronzes.

Lafayette, MI, Summer Field School, Summer 2002.

Graduate Students in their leisure time.

IA Graduate Student Joe Wilson making a presentation.

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