INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY
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Industrial Archaeology is the study of the industrial past from its physical remains. My work focuses on manufacturing and extractive industries with an emphasis on mechanization's influence on work. Specific research areas are detailed in pages linked from the images below.
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Parts from the drive assembly of an autogenous grinding mill, Centennial Mine, Calumet, Michigan.
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WOOD TYPE ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeological study of the manufacture of wood printing type, primarily focused on the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Two Rivers, Wisconsin and a machine that was used to produce decorative wood type borders. My Master's thesis, Wood Type Archaeology: An Inquiry into Worker Skill in Wood Printing Type Manufacture can be downloaded here. |
Pattern No. 10117, used to cut a script letter A using a pantograph mounted router. From the collection of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
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ORE DRESSING & RECLAMATION
Archival and Archaeological study of copper ore milling and the reclamation of copper from tailings sand in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. |
Quincy Mining Company Mill No. 1 in 2018, Mason, Houghton County, Michigan.
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