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Reports, 1923-1925, of diamond drilling at various sites in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, including Cherokee, Clark, Copper Range, Keweenaw Copper, Mass, Naumkeag, New Baltic, Oneco and Torch Lake mines. The field work was done by both Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company's Geological Division and the United States Geological Survey, probably in support of Professional Paper 144, "The Copper Deposits of Michigan."

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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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Photograph collection, 1864-circa 1976, of Earl Gagnon, a resident of Ripley, Michigan and staff writer and photographer for the Daily Mining Gazette of Houghton, Michigan. Includes images of ships, railroads, lighthouses, schools, copper mines and minings and buildings as well as local sports teams, local residents and Keweenaw scenery. Also includes photographs of the construction and installation of the Bishop Baraga monument on Keweenaw Bay.

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Collection, 1908-1910, of Rufus R. Goodell, a prominent businessman in Houghton, Michigan. Includes business correspondence to and from Goodell in a letterpress book.

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Photograph collection, circa 1915-circa 1917, taken by Frederick J. Haun, a resident of Calumet, Michigan. Includes images of local scenery, the village of Calumet, and area mines.

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Negative collection, circa 1890, of George C. Edwards. Glass negatives include images from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, including hunting, sailing, and camping as well as landscapes, houses, and copper mining buildings.

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Collection, undated, of Harry T. Mercer, long-time employee of the Copper Range Mining Company and resident of Painesdale, Michigan. Includes technical drawings, a card index, and field notes.

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Records, 1880-1902, of the Hodge Iron Foundry of Ripley, Michigan, also known as the Lake Superior Iron Works. Includes indexed accounts, general ledgers and payroll accounts.

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Records, 1854-1963, of the Indiana Mining Company. Originally established as the Indiana Copper Company, the records Include articles of incorporation, by-laws and minutes.

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...