The center of Copper Range Company mining operations until the 1950s, Adams Township contains the Village of South Range and the unincorporated communities of Atlantic Mine, Baltic, Painesdale, Toivola, and Trimountain. The collection consists of daily attendance registers, which list the names and ages of the students as well as their attendance.

Correspondence, circa 1922-circa 1960, of Ellen Carlson, a school teacher born in Rockland, Michigan. Documents through personal correspondence the experience of a young woman growing up in Michigan's Copper Country. Also includes photographs, clippings and cards.

Scrapbook, approximately 1920-1935, belonging to Josephine Solf, given to her upon graduation from Painesdale High School in 1930.

Class record books, 1929-1953, belonging to Laird Township school teacher, L. A. (Leimo Alexander) Jacobson.

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.

Meeting program, 1901, from the Upper Peninsula Teachers' Association sixth annual meeting in Hancock, Michigan, referred to as the "Copper Country Meeting." Includes lists of officers, the executive committee, and the local committee and provides the schedule of events for the two day meeting. Also includes handwritten notes commenting on the quality of the speakers and changes to the program and available excursions.