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Preservation study, 2002-2003, by the National Park Service of the Quincy Mining Company Smelting Works in Hancock, Michigan. The study produced a preservation and rehabilitation plan for the site. Includes a Historic Land Use Survey by Michigan Technological University as well as critical safety and preservation needs assessment documents, condition and stabilization studies, and alternative use studies.

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Papers, circa 1965-circa 1979, of Dr. Raymond Lloyd Smith, sixth president of Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Includes minutes, correspondence and clippings as well as files and reports on long range planning, campus building plans, the Ford Forestry Center and the Sault St. Marie branch of Michigan Technolgical University. Also includes photographs and audiovisual materials.

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Collection, circa 1900-circa 1959, of Robert C. Matson, a professor of mining and civil engineering at the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Includes several research volumes containing lists of mines with sources of information, facilities reports from the Sault St. Marie and Houghton campuses for the College, and correspondence.

Abstract Roy Ward Drier (1897-1974) was a lifelong resident of Calumet, Michigan. A graduate of the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University), Drier began collecting historical material for what was formally known as the Keweenawan Collection in the summer of 1933. For the following several decades, Drier would amass a significant collection of historical records relating to the Copper Country. The collection contains a substantial amount of historical materials collected by...

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Papers, 1912-1968, of Roy W. Drier, a native of Calumet, Michigan and alumnus and professor of the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Includes work done under appropriate duty orders for the U.S. Navy on x-ray investigations and a scrapbook with clippings, letters, invitations and programs. Also includes Drier's doctoral hood and graduation cap, the first issued by the Michigan College of Mining and Technology.

Abstract Papers, circa 1961-circa 1983, of Ruth Butler, a native of Republic, Michigan and long-time resident of Houghton County, Michigan. Includes personal papers, files on the founding of the Houghton County Historical Society and the Upper Peninsula State Fair Board as well as files relating to Mrs. Butler's political activities with the Michigan Constitutional Convention and the Michigan State Central Committee. Also includes various certificates, recognition awards, photographs and...

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Sampling report, 1945, compiled for the Copper Range Company by the Department of Mineral Dressing at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University). Book 1 of a 3 volume report, includes information about work done to determine the approximate assay and tonnage of the Redridge tailing bank in Redridge, Michigan.

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Report, 1961, on the finances, circulation, and major activities of the Sarah Sargent Paine Memorial Library in Painesdale, Michigan.

Abstract Collection, 1838-1972, of Scott Turner, an alumnus of the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Through his long career, Turner worked around the globe in various mining jobs, including managing the Arctic Coal Company in Spitsbergen (now known as Svalbard) and director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines as well as surviving the sinking of the Lusitania. He received many awards during his career, including the first-ever Distinguished Alumni Award...

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Collection, 1853-1978, of the St. Mary's Canal Mineral Land Company of Boston, Massachusetts, a land holder with mineral rights on property along the Lake Superior copper region. Includes correspondence, financial records, land deeds and holdings, field journals and reports. Material in this collection complements material in the Copper Range Company Collection.