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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.

Abstract Papers, 1949-1983, of William A. Hockings, an assistant professor of mineral research and assistant director of the Institute of Mineral Research at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (later Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Includes Hockings' thesis, patents held by Hockings and research material on mass flow balances, cyanide leaching (White Pine), ammonia leaching (stamp sands), reduction nucleation and various other projects connected with the Institute...

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Papers, 1900-1925, of William J. Uren of Houghton, Michigan. Includes photographs of the Ahmeek Mill construction, building of the Douglas Houghton Memorial in Eagle River, Michigan as well as other mining related images. Also includes postcards, newspaper clippings and two legal briefs on the proceedings of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company acquisition of the Bigelow group of mines, including the Ahmeek, Isle Royale, Osceola Consolidated, Seneca and Tamarack Mining Companies.

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Winning photographs as well as honorable mention photographs from the Winter Carnival Contest held by the library student assistants. Submissions must be by enrolled students and submissions are judged by library student assistants.

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The collection contains photographs, which record the operations, personnel, programming, and technological changes at the station. Also included in the collection are promotional materials, newspaper clippings, and the original constitution from 1956. The majority of the materials post-date 1975.

Abstract Collection, 1970-2010, of the "Discovering Copper Country Women's Heritage" programs coordinated by the Copper Country Women's Heritage Committee in conjunction with the Humanities Department of Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. This collection also contains records pertaining to several Michigan Technological University women's committees and conferences, such as WomenSphere, Affirming Diversity: Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), History of Women at Tech, and the Academic...

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Collection, 1980-1984, of WomenSphere, a program of events at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Includes correspondence, minutes, files, programs and clippings as well as audiovisual recordings of several events.