Abstract Research papers, circa 1974-circa 1979, of Lawrence Rakestraw, a faculty member of the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Includes research papers and field notes on Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and Apostle Islands National Lakeshore as well as research papers on land ownership in Ontonagon County, the Sturgeon River Lumber Company and a history of the Department of Forestry (now the School of Forest Resources and Environmental...

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Collection, 1880-1968; 2007-2019, of the Lawton family of Michigan. Includes field notebooks of Charles DeWitt Lawton, written during his tenure as the State of Michigan Commissioner of Mineral Statistics, as well as correspondence of Charles Latham Lawton and Swaby Lawton. Also contains biographical information on family members including Charles Latham Lawton, Swaby Lawton, Nathan Oliver Lawton, Charles E. Wright and Ross Dunbar Blackburn.

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Collection, 1990-1997, of the research materials collected by Marsha Penti as she was preparing to write and defend her dissertation, "Religious Identites in the Composition Class: Learning from Students of Difference."

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Papers, circa 1910-circa 1949, of Nathan O. Lawton, a graduate of the Michigan Mining School (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan, and a practicing mining engineer.

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Papers, undated, of R. A. Brotherton, a civil engineer with the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company and with the City of Negaunee, Michigan. Includes correspondence, field notebooks, timber cruise cards, and maps as well as the personal papers of Mary, Helen, and Walter Brotherton.

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Papers, 1984-2002, of Ray Martin (Reino Marttinen) or Ontonagon, Michigan.

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Collection, 1853-1978, of the St. Mary's Canal Mineral Land Company of Boston, Massachusetts, a land holder with mineral rights on property along the Lake Superior copper region. Includes correspondence, financial records, land deeds and holdings, field journals and reports. Material in this collection complements material in the Copper Range Company Collection.

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Collection, 1912-1978, of Swande Godell of Chassell, Michigan. Includes biographical and genealogical material as well as personal and business correspondence, field notebooks, logging camp account books and Chassell Lumber Company records.

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Oral history project, 1914-1972, includes oral history tape recordings, partial transcriptions, field notes and reports from interactions with ten teachers from towns across Michigan's Upper Peninsula in collaboration with Northern Michigan University.

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Papers, 1962-2014, belonging to Wendel Johnson documenting his research and tenure studying wildlife on Isle Royale, Michigan.