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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Collection, 1903-1960, of Tony Vranesich, a resident of Copper Harbor, Michigan. Includes U.S. Coast Guard material that consists of a log from Jacobsville, Michigan and law enforcement material as well as material from a shorthand correspondence course, images depicting Copper Country life and other printed ephemera.

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Records, 1940-1978, of telephone lines for three United States Coast Guard stations in Lake Superior, Michigan: Huron Island, Eagle Harbor, and Portage Entry. Records include location diagrams of poles in relation to surrounding structures, span of cables, kind of material and date set. Also includes Bell System Practices manuals, by AT and T, for private branch exchange installation and maintenance.

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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.