HOUGHTON -- As one of the area's first commercial photographers, J.W. Nara captured life in the Copper Country at the turn of the 20th century. Now a traveling exhibit of his photographs are on display at the Carnegie Museum in Houghton.
Ten panels feature images of family life, social gatherings and the copper mining strike of 1913.
All of the photos were donated by the Nara family to the Michigan Tech archives who put together the exhibit.
"It's always fun to come out and look at historical photos and relieve yourself of the need to guess that people lived differently. You can actually look at a photo of people at a picnic and think it's not that different from the picnic I went on last week," said MTU Archivist, Eric Nordberg.
The exhibit will be on display through July 5. It'll then travel to other museums and libraries in the area.
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