This rare and attractive bird's-eye view captures a stylized view of the Keweenaw Peninsula on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Its leading industrial cities are the focus of this view with Houghton, Hancock, and Calumet shown in good detail and dominated by smokestacks. A number of companies related to the region's mining industry are also located and named including mills, mines, foundries and more. Other points of interest include the Michigan College of Mines, a golf course, and the Houghton "Poor Farm and Sanitarium." A few roads and railroads link the peninsula's communities together. Drawn by Henry Wellge and published by Albert Kennedy Cox, a bookshop owner in Houghton. This view is rare with only one past sales record in the last 30 years and two institutional examples on OCLC.

The Keweenaw Peninsula was home to the first copper boom in the United States in the 1840s, and quickly became the nation's leading copper producer for decades. The last of the copper mines closed in the 1960s.

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Condition: B+

There is some light soiling at left and a small chip in the bottom blank margin.