Collection, undated, contains research materials, articles, photographs, historical documents, electronic records and objects relating to the publications of Michigan's Copper Country historian and author Clarence Monette.

Oral history project, 1984-1987, conducted by Lillian Tretin as part of her dissertation through the University of Michigan, "Traprock workers: the culture of work and risk at an underground copper mine, 1900-1945." Includes cassettes as well as transcriptions of the interviews of local residents of Painesdale, Michigan, a company town for the Champion Mining Company, a subsidiary of the Copper Range Company.