Abstract Collection, 1747; 1800-1975, bulk 1890-1970, of Ben R. Chynoweth, a resident of Hancock, Michigan and amateur historian of Isle Royale, Michigan. Collection documents the shipping, mining endeavors and fishing industry of Isle Royale in addition to the formation of Isle Royale National Park in 1940. Photographs in the collection show the island's geographical features, the people, the fishing industry, and the Great Lakes ships. Includes pamphlets, correspondence, maps, scrapbooks and...

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Reports, 2012-2021, of the Copper Country Audubon.

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Papers, 1890-1966, documenting the Coughlin and Gray Family history in Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula 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.

Abstract This collection documents much of the administrative and research aspects of the Ecological Studies of Wolves on Isle Royale (also referred to as the wolf-moose project) while under the direction of the research project's first and second primary investigators, Durward L. Allen and Rolf O. Peterson. Few materials are from John A. Vucetich, who began co-directing the project with Peterson in 2003. Research topics focus on wolves and moose, but include topics such as vegetation, birds, and...

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Photograph collection, 1938-1989, 2003, of Herman Gundlach, Jr., president of Herman Gundlach, Inc., a construction company based in Houghton, Michigan. Includes photographs from 84 photo albums showing buildings constrcuted by Herman Gundlach and successive contruction firms. Most buildings are in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, espcially Houghton and Ontonagon counties.

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Newsletters, 1995-2002, contains the Wilderness and Backcountry Management Plan newsletters and the General Management Plan newsletters for Isle Royale National Park, Michigan.

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Records, circa 1986-1988, of the Isle Royale Natural History Association (now known as the Isle Royale and Keweenaw Parks Association). Includes board files.

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Records, 1873-1898, of Isle Royale Township, Michigan, an island in the northwest of Lake Superior. Includes county legal records, with tax records, state census records, lists of residents, oaths of office for justices, treasurers and constables as well as correspondence.

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Collection, 1935-2022, of material related to Camp Sidnaw.