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Collection, 1968-1978, of the Houghton County Memorial Airport. Includes photographs of the construction, grand opening and use of the airport as well as newspaper clippings about the airport. Also includes correspondence with local officials and printed ephemera.

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Collection, approximately 1932-1933, of black and white photographs from the Houghton County Sanatorium located in Houghton, Michigan.

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Scrapbook, 1968-1969, recording the attempt of the Houghton High School Band from Houghton, Michigan to get an invitation to march in the 1969 Inauguration Parade for Richard M. Nixon. Includes correspondence with local members of Congress, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

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Collection, 1937-2007, of Isabella Hagen, a Calumet, Michigan native. Isabelle was actively involved with the local theater as well as being a talented piano teacher and performer. Includes programs, posters, clippings, and photographs from Isabella's involvement with the Little Theater and the Michigan Technological University Women's Club.

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Scrapbook, 1937-2007, compiled by Janet Anuta Dalquist commemorating the life of Isabella Nadeau Hagen, a resident of Houghton, Michigan. Includes service bulletins from the First Presbyterian Church in Houghton, programs from various recitals, photographs and newspaper clippings. Also includes remembrances of Isabella from friends, musicians, students, parents, actors, directors and choir members.

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Records, 1909-1982, of the Italian American Federation of the Upper Peninsula, a mutual benefit association that united the various Italian mutual benefit societies of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Includes convention programs, membership cards, minutes, correspondence and newspaper clippings as well as a gavel and several photographs.

Abstract Dr. John Robert ("Bob") Van Pelt was Michigan Tech's sixth president, serving the campus from 1956 to 1965. After he stepped down, Van Pelt began work on a history of the Copper Range Company (whose board he had joined in 1961). The manuscript was unfinished when the Copper Range Company was acquired by Louisiana Land and Exploration in 1977. The collection contains files related to Van Pelt's incomplete manuscript about the history of the Copper Range Company. The bulk of the material...

Abstract Papers, circa 1922-circa 1984, of Dr. J. Robert Van Pelt, president from 1956-1964 of the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Includes office files and reports, correspondence, copies of speeches, letters of congratulations on his appointment as president and newspaper clippings as well as the "Report of the Secretary's Survey Committee on the Geological Survey," a committee for the Department of the Interior in 1954,...

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Collection, circa 1980, of material from a humanities course in folklore taught by associate professor John W. "Jack" Jobst at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. The material contains information on local, regional, and statewide folklore and legends and includes assignments, topics, clippings, and notes.

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Collection, 1854-1948, of personal and professional materials of Dr. James Fisher, Jr., a professor at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (subsequently Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan.