Oral histories
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Michigan Technological University Oral Histories
Oral histories, circa 1974-circa 1984, of people associated with Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Subjects include graduates from the class of 1902 to 1940 , the first woman graduate, members of the Board of Control, a past president, and faculty members.
Northland College Ethnic Heritage Sound Archives
Sound archives, 1979-1981, includes 13 oral history interviews of Copper Country natives.
Painesdale Oral History Project
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.
Peter Wolfe Oral History Interview
Oral history interview, 1974-1986, of Peter Henry Wolfe. Based on his journals of his hike on the North Country Trail, Mr. Wolfe reads his entries and expands upon them on tape. Includes two of the journals and transcriptions of the interviews.
Socrates Antioho Oral History Interview
Oral history interview, 1974, with Socrates Antioho, a Calumet, Michigan resident and Greek immigrant. Includes audiocassettes as well as a typed transcript.
Teaching Experiences in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan Oral History Project
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.
Torch Lake Oral History Project
Oral history project, 2013-2015, capturing the memories of ten individuals who lived or worked in the industrial communities lining Torch Lake in Houghton County, Michigan in the middle 1900s.
Trailertown Collection
Collection, circa 1950-circa 1960, on the Garnet Hill Trailer Park in Houghton, Michigan, also known as "Trailertown." With housing shortages at the college, and no married housing, the trailer park was used by Michigan Technological University students from the 1940s through the 1960s. Includes photographs, scrapbook pages and reminiscences from past residents.
U. P. the Hard Way Transcript
Transcript, 1987, of "U.P. the Hard Way," a talk given by Walter Koski for the Ontonagon County Historical Society in Ontonagon, Michigan. Details his early life in Winona, Michigan; his return to Finland shortly after its independence from Russia; and his illegal return to the United States, using his brother's papers. Also details his career with various cooperative societies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.