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Assembled collection, 2016, concerning the life and career of Michigan Technological University alumnus and veteran National Hockey League player John Scott, whose unexpected rise to the NHL All-Star Game captivated North American hockey in 2016.

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Oral history, before 1998, audio recording and transcript of talk given by David Chimino, a professor at Michigan Technological University. Reminisces about his time as a student in the Adams Township school system, especially Jeffers High School in Painesdale, Michigan.

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Papers, 1969-2016, of Harley L. Sachs, former faculty member at Michigan Technological University.

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Autobiography, 1906-1908, of Joseph Austrian (Oestreicher), a German immigrant who moved to Eagle River, Michigan and became a shopkeeper associated with the mining towns of Eagle River, Hancock and Calumet. Written between 1906 and 1908, Austrian covers his life from his early childhood in Wittelshofen, Bavaria and his emigration to America with his sister in 1850 up until his final months before his death in 1908.

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Autobiography, circa 1984, of Marie McCurdy, a native of Ripley, Michigan. Includes description of her early life in Ripley and Hancock, her stay in the sanitorium with tuberculosis, as well as her time in Canada where her husband was a gold miner near Ontario. Also includes anecdotes upon returning to Michigan with accounts of her husband's illness from silicosis and her subsequent activities after his death.

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Manuscripts, 1990-1994, written by Martin Kaurala of Mass City, Michigan. Contains memoirs and recollections of growing up in the Finnish-American community in Michigan, especially the political and social aspects of the co-operative in the community. Manuscripts include "The Co-operative Experience," "Meditations of 1992," "The Mass Co-operative Company," "Interesting Experiences and Random Thoughts," and "Potpourri of 1994," as well as recollections of a stump farmer and lumberjack.

Abstract Autobiography, 1878-1950, by Ocha Potter, a native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, head of the Keweenaw Road Commission and superintendent of the Ahmeek mine. Two versions found in collection. The expanded version includes photographs, newspaper clippings and additional material added by his descendants. Also includes an epilogue written twelve years after the initial memoir detailing the intervening years. The second version is a typescript copy shared by the National Park Service and is an...

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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.

Abstract Autobiography, 1943, of Samuel Alexander Parnall, a graduate of the first class of the Michigan Mining School (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan, and president of the alumni association from 1892-1893. Written as a letter to his half-sister, Isabella Parnall Begle, it details his experience growing up in Rockland, Michigan, his attendance at the Michigan Mining School and subsequent career as a mine engineer and superintendent around the western United States and...

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Oral history interview, 1974, with Socrates Antioho, a Calumet, Michigan resident and Greek immigrant. Includes audiocassettes as well as a typed transcript.