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Papers, 1830-1846, of Douglass Houghton, Michigan's first state geologist as well as a physician and scientist. Includes correspondence, survey maps, geological field notes for the interior Lower Peninsula, the shorelines of the Lower and Upper Peninsulas, and the southern shoreline of Lake Superior, Isle Royale, and the Upper Peninsula. Also includes a calendar and a small index volume with names.

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Photograph collection, 1864-circa 1976, of Earl Gagnon, a resident of Ripley, Michigan and staff writer and photographer for the Daily Mining Gazette of Houghton, Michigan. Includes images of ships, railroads, lighthouses, schools, copper mines and minings and buildings as well as local sports teams, local residents and Keweenaw scenery. Also includes photographs of the construction and installation of the Bishop Baraga monument on Keweenaw Bay.

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Collection, 1873-1926, compiled by Elizabeth Fichtel. Includes commencement invitations for Hancock High School, Lake Linden High School and the Michigan Mining School as well as invitations to local parties, some printed on fabric or sheets of copper. Also contains stock certificates from various mining companies in Arizona, Minnesota, and Michigan in addition to lumber, truck body and development businesses.

Abstract Contacts, undated, of F. Peter Ambrosiani, a professional mining engineer and 1938 graduate of the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Includes a notebook with handwritten entries for mining companies of Michigan's Upper Peninsula primarily with their chief officers, superintendents, engineers and agents listed. Probably associated with Ambrosiani's job with Jeffrey Manufacturing Company where he was the sales manager for...

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Photograph albums, 1946, compiled by Frances Mary Potter during extended summer travel in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with brief stops in northern Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada.

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Account books, 1858-circa 1880, for unidentified general stores in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Day book entries include lists of goods purchased, lists of items to purchase, recipes for various medicines, notes and short diary entries. One day book appears to be for a store near L'Anse, Michigan. Also includes a ledger with customer's purchases and day book listed.

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Negative collection, circa 1890, of George C. Edwards. Glass negatives include images from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, including hunting, sailing, and camping as well as landscapes, houses, and copper mining buildings.

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Collection, 1970-1978, of material associated with former Governor of Michigan William Milliken's tour of the Upper Peninsula.

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Collection, 1940-2008, of family genealogies and biographies of Hans E. Fredeen and his family. Also includes clippings, postcards of Copper Harbor, Michigan, and several articles written by Fredeen on Isle Royale and the Boy Scouts of America's history in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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Collection, undated, of photographs by Harold Putnam, the photographer of the husband and wife publishing team, Putnam Feature Services. Includes photographs, negatives and contact prints taken for the Putnam's various publications about Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Also includes the original mock-up of the travel guide, "North to Adventure in Michigan's Upper Peninsula."