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Photograph album, circa 1913, with scenes of Houghton and Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, taken by A.L. Dickerman, a mining engineer. Includes photographs of the Mayflower, Old Colony and Wolverine mines as well as scenes from the 1913-1914 Michigan copper miners' strike.

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Photograph collection, undated, of the Calumet, Michigan area including the "Calumet Encampment," Freda beach and various unidentified people. The "Calumet Encampment" may be the National Guard encampment at Calumet, Michigan during the 1913 Copper Miners' strike.

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Photograph collection, 1913-1914, by J. W. Nara of Calumet, Michigan. Although not true stereographs, the double images depict the 1913-1914 Copper Miners' Strike in Michigan's Copper Country, including images from the Italian Hall disaster. Captions are in English and Finnish.

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Postcards and postcard book, circa 1913-1920, featuring scenes of Michigan's Copper Country, especially Calumet and Laurium.

Abstract This collection is a historical record of the incorporation and operation of “The Friends of the Italian Hall,” a non-profit organization for the preservation of the Italian Hall building located in Calumet Michigan. Operating from 1977 to 1983, the organization sought donation of the Italian Hall from the building's owner to the City of Calumet, sought registration in the Register of National Historic Places, sought federal grants for restoration of the building, sought public donations,...

Abstract The Copper Miners' Strike of 1913-1914 in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula was marred by several acts of violence, notably the Italian Hall disaster and the Seeberville shootings. Swaby L. Lawton of the law firm Hanchette & Lawton represented the Quincy Mining Company during the strike and the Copper Range Company during the appeals against the conviction of deputes for the Seeberville shootings. This collection consists of the files of the law firm Hanchette & Lawton of Hancock...

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...

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Collection, 1978-2010, of Larry Lankton, Professor Emeritus of History in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University. Materials extensively document Lankton’s career and research into the copper mines of the western Upper Peninsula, both during his professorial tenure and his time with the Historic American Engineering Record.

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Audio cassettes, 1973, containing oral histories and course lectures prepared for HU 450: Literature of the Upper Peninsula.

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Miner's Bulletin newspaper, 8/13/1913-4/14/1914, published by the Western Federation of Miners during the Copper Miners' Strike in Michigan's Copper Country.