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Report, 1973-2005, on the archaeological excavation of Site 20 KE 53, Cliff Mine in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, done in 1973 by Eleanor Andrews, at that time on the faculty of Michigan Technological University's Department of Social Sciences. Includes the final report, maps, references, bibliographies, research notes and field notes and material.

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Accounts, 1894-1925, of the United States Coast Guard at the Copper Harbor Light Station in Copper Harbor, Michigan. Includes daily expenditures and daily accounts of stores as well as the general account of supplies for Gull Rock Light Station, located off the northern tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Also includes an unidentified ship's log.

Abstract Collection, 1852-1924, of the Daniel Brockway family, an early merchant and community building family in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Contains correspondence, financial records and legal records of Daniel Brockway's many land and business ventures throughout the Great Lakes region, particularly the activity of several stores Brockway operated with his son, Albert A. Brockway, under the partnership D.D. Brockway & Son. The collection also includes records of several mining enterprises...

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Papers, 1830-1846, of Douglass Houghton, Michigan's first state geologist as well as a physician and scientist. Includes correspondence, survey maps, geological field notes for the interior Lower Peninsula, the shorelines of the Lower and Upper Peninsulas, and the southern shoreline of Lake Superior, Isle Royale, and the Upper Peninsula. Also includes a calendar and a small index volume with names.

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Records, undated, on the use of electrical self-potential geophysical prospecting as well as other dowsing techniques to locate copper and gold deposits in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.

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Photograph albums, 1946, compiled by Frances Mary Potter during extended summer travel in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with brief stops in northern Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada.

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Collection, 1901-1975, of Frank C. Schwarzenberg, a 1917 graduate of the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Includes maps and blueprints of the Houghton and Hancock area, geological maps of the Copper Range, clippings, mine reports, technical machine data and correspondence.

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Newspaper clippings, 1987-1990, collected by the Friends of the Land of Keweenaw about FOLK. Also includes several issues of the FOLK newsletter and reprinted articles from various sources.

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Photograph collection, 1892-circa 1920, of J. W. Nara, one of the Copper Country's first commercial photographers. Includes photographs of Michigan's Copper Country, capturing the people and places in the midst of the Keweenaw Peninsula's most productive decades of copper mining.

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Photograph collection, 1959-1961, by James Langenberg, a 1961 graduate of the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Includes images from the campus as well as from the local Keweenaw area. Also includes images from Winter Carnival, the annual celebration at the college featuring snow sculptures.