Scope and Content Summary From the Collection: Audio cassettes, 1973, containing oral histories and course lectures prepared for HU 450: Literature of the Upper Peninsula. Students in the course, instructed by Michael H. Johnson, interviewed residents of the Upper Peninsula, producing histories addressing a variety of topics related to the peninsula's towns, industries, disasters, and culture. Interviewees also discussed their experiences with national events, such as the Great Depression. An additional oral history is drawn from January...

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Topics: Lumbering and mining

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Topic: mines

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Topic: the Huell Fires

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Topic: the Depression

Scope and Content Summary From the Collection: Audio cassettes, 1973, containing oral histories and course lectures prepared for HU 450: Literature of the Upper Peninsula. Students in the course, instructed by Michael H. Johnson, interviewed residents of the Upper Peninsula, producing histories addressing a variety of topics related to the peninsula's towns, industries, disasters, and culture. Interviewees also discussed their experiences with national events, such as the Great Depression. An additional oral history is drawn from January...

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Topic: transportation - street cars

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Topics: lumber companies, strike of 1913 at Calumet and Hecla, Pequaming in 1876

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Topic: hockey in Houghton

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Topic: copper and iron mines