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Photographs, approximately 1966, of the construction site of Wadsworth Hall on the Michigan Technological University campus.

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Newsletters, 1958-1972, written by and for the students of Wadsworth Hall, one of the residence halls at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. It was a vehicle for resident counselors and the student council to communicate with students, but also for humorous articles and cartoons.

Abstract Collection, circa 1917-circa 1931, compiled by Walfrid Been, a Michigan Technological University alumni and professor. Includes unidentified photographs, probably of early students at Michigan College of Mining and Technology as well as a menu and dinner program from the Houghton Club in 1931. Also includes a 1917 fund raising letter in support of the equipment of a metallurgical testing laboratory and financial report for the George Koenig Endowment Fund (George Koenig, who passed away in...

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Collection, 1924 and 2024, of materials related to the Wescott Family of Houghton, Michigan.

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Collection, 1893-2001, of the West Houghton Neighborhood Association, Houghton, Michigan. The bulk of dates is 1998-2001 and includes meeting minutes, project documents, organizational bylaws as well as other organizational records.

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Collection, 1959-1982, of WGGL FM 91.1, a locally broadcast radio station of Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, eventually becoming an affiliate of Minnesota Public Radio.

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Manuscript, before 1981, by Dorothy Bennetts Crocker, the daughter of the lighthouse keeper at the Portage Canal Lighthouse north of Houghton, Michigan. Details her early childhood growing up at the lighthouse, circa 1916 to circa 1922.

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Records, 1898-2010, bulk 1924-1979, of the WHDF Radio Station operating in the Copper Country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, stock certificates, licenses, newspaper clippings, history of the station and other related ephemera. Also includes oversize maps and geological surveys of the surrounding area.

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Articles and letters for Reverend Stephen Polkinghorne, the father of Wilfrid C. Polkinghorne; newspaper articles, letters, pictures, and awards for Wilfrid C. Polkinghorne.