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Papers, 1888-2000, collected and produced by Dr. Allan M. Johnson during his career as student, professor, and research leader at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Includes research material, articles and photographs relating to different geological projects, scientific journals and papers. The majority of these pertain to minerals of the Upper Peninsula as well as the safety and environmental issues of local mines in the Upper Peninsula.

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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.

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...

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Papers, 1928-1991, of Lloyal Bacon, a professor of geophysics at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan.

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Correspondence, 1866-1925, of Lucius L. Hubbard, a one-time professor at the Michigan Mining School, State Geologist of Michigan, and executive of Upper Peninsula copper mining companies.