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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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.

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Collection, manuscript and research notes written by Joseph Donnelly on the development of child guidance and mental health programs in the Copper Country, specifically on the Child Guidance Clinic of which he was instrumental in founding. The clinic was moved from St. Joseph's Hospital to the Copper Country Mental Health Center, of which Donnelly was a director.

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Manuscripts, 1990-1994, written by Martin Kaurala of Mass City, Michigan. Contains memoirs and recollections of growing up in the Finnish-American community in Michigan, especially the political and social aspects of the co-operative in the community. Manuscripts include "The Co-operative Experience," "Meditations of 1992," "The Mass Co-operative Company," "Interesting Experiences and Random Thoughts," and "Potpourri of 1994," as well as recollections of a stump farmer and lumberjack.

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Manuscript, 1990, by Marian Kettenbeil chronicling the history of the Calumet Women's Club of Calumet, Michigan in preparation for their centennial celebration. Documents the social aspects of the club as well as the scholarly and philanthropic activities from 1901 to 1990.

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Collection, 1943-circa 1960, of material from the Army Air Corps student training program at Michigan Technological University, Squadron 5 of the 98th College Training Detachment and the 1st Arctic Battalion. Includes photographs and scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence and a yearbook publication, "Pinfeathers."

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Papers, 1849; 1866-1944, of Oliver A. Farwell, a famous botanist and grandson of Daniel D. and Lucena Brockway. Includes business and personal correspondence, photographs, and records.

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Manuscript, 1890, by John Luther Harris while he was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Handwritten copy of "On Copper Rocks and Copper Foundations of Lake Superior," Boston, Massachusetts.

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Manuscript, 2004, with the text written by Ernie Fitzsimmons and other material compiled by James Milks. Includes an unpublished manuscript, "Players of the International Hockey League (1904-1907)," with hockey player sheets printed from the Society for International Hockey Research's statistical database. The paper was presented at the Society for International Hockey Research annual meeting in 2004.

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Manuscript, before 1952, for the book "Red Metal: The Calumet and Hecla Story" by C. Harry Benedict. Includes 20 unopened copies of the printed book as well as printer's plates for the book's illustrations.