Abstract The Copper Range Company (1899-1977) operated copper mines in Houghton County's southern communities and in Ontonagon County. The second largest mining company in the Copper Country (after Calumet & Hecla), the Copper Range Company was the only one to endure past the 1960s. In addition to mining, it owned and operated the Copper Range Railroad (1899-1973) and the Copper Range Motor Bus Company (1925-1955). Materials in the Copper Range Company Records document the history of the...

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Papers, 1905-2019, of Dana Richter, former faculty member of Michigan Technological University’s School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science and local Copper Country historian.

Abstract Collection, 1852-1924, of the Daniel Brockway family, an early merchant and community building family in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Contains correspondence, financial records and legal records of Daniel Brockway's many land and business ventures throughout the Great Lakes region, particularly the activity of several stores Brockway operated with his son, Albert A. Brockway, under the partnership D.D. Brockway & Son. The collection also includes records of several mining enterprises...

Abstract Records, 1949-1962, documenting the dismissal of Edward V. Sittler, an assistant professor of German at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology in Houghton, Michigan. Includes correspondence, clippings and legal papers documenting the hiring and dismissal of Sittler and the subsequent lawsuits brought by Sittler against the college. Also includes transcripts of some of Sittler's broadcasts during World War II. Sittler was a United States citizen who renounced his citizenship to become...

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...

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Family papers, 1861-2003, compiled or produced by Mary Ralph Erkkila, her mother Annie Sullivan Ralph, and their relatives on the lives and familial relationships of the Sullivan and Ralph families in the Upper Midwest.

Abstract Collection, 1990-1993, of the Patricia Milligan-Jensen lawsuit against Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Milligan-Jensen claimed sex discrimination and retaliation which resulted in her termination as a public safety officer at Michigan Technological University. Initially Milligan-Jensen's lawsuit was successful; however, it was overturned on appeal due to a technicality. Includes correspondence by both sides of the dispute, depositions, court judgments, and...

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Collection, 1856-2001, of business records and legal records documenting the Minnesota Land Company, a private company that owned timber and mineral lands in northeastern Minnesota.

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Records, 1989-2018, of NAMI Keweenaw Area.