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Drawer 1   3.0 drawers Drawer 1 contents: Alger County - Grand Marais

Business and economic history of the Upper Peninsula 1903-2011 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials related to the business and economic climate in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.).
  • Ford Motor Company.
  • Lake Superior Community Partnership.
  • Lake Superior Iron Company.

Geographic Name(s)

  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Commerce.

Subject(s)

  • Building stones--Michigan.
  • Business enterprises--Michigan--Upper Peninsula
  • Educational counseling.
  • Interstate commerce--Michigan.
  • Labor--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Newspapers--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Railroads--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Shipbuilding--History.
  • Stone industry and trade--Michigan.
  • Vocational counseling--United States.

Central U.P. Planning and Development Regional Commission (1999-2003) 

Community and Economic Profiles for Michigan's Upper Peninsula (2011) 

Development of Bureau of News (1932) 

Economics and geology of Michigan building stones (1973) 

Evolution of Ships Part II 

Ford and the Motor Company in the U.P. 

Individual guidance in a CCC camp (1939) 

Interstate trade barriers and Michigan industry (1941) 

Lake Superior Iron Company, Semi-Centennial Celebration (1903) 

The Laborregister 

The Mason and Oceana Railroad 

Michigan Rail System Rationalization Plan 

Monthly Progress Report Ore Industry Study (March 1979) 

NMU (BBER) Quarterly (July 2000 to present) 

Upper Great Lakes Economic, Education Legislative and Workforce Development Summit (2011) 

Upper Peninsula Chronicle (2000-2005) 

Voice of business (Lake Superior Community Partnership) (2002-2009) 

Where is everybody? A review of unemployment in Gogebic County Michigan (1961) / Gogebic Industrial Bureau 

Churches and religious practice of the Upper Peninsula 1986 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials related to the history of churches and religious faith in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Republic (Mich.)--Church history
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Religious life.
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Social life and customs.

Subject(s)

  • Lutheran Church--Michigan--Upper Peninsula

Bethany Lutheran Church (Republic, Mich.) 100th Anniversary (1886-1986) 

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Republic (Mich.)--Church history
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Religious life.
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Social life and customs.

Subject(s)

  • Lutheran Church--Michigan--Upper Peninsula

Culture of the Upper Peninsula 2002-2012 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials related to the cultural life of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Social life and customs.
  • Upper Peninsula--History

Subject(s)

  • Food--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.

Marquette Regional History Center newsletter (periodical; Summer 2011, Autumn 2011, Winter 2011, Spring 2012, December 2012) 

Rock tripe, pasties, and cudighi: A Culinary History of the U.P. of Michigan (2002) 

Energy resources of the Upper Peninsula 1975-1985 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials related to energy issues in the Upper Peninsula.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Industries.

Subject(s)

  • Coal-fired power plants--Environmental aspects--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Energy development.
  • Fuelwood
  • Power resources.

Environmental impact statement for issuance of permits, licenses and approvals for Cliffs Electric Service Company Power Generating Units 7, 8, and 9 in the city of Marquette (1975) 

Wood Energy Development and Control in Michigan (1985) 

Environmental issues of the Upper Peninsula 1974-1993 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials relating to pollution and environmental issues in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Subject(s)

  • Environmental impact analysis--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Sand dunes--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Water--Pollution--Michigan.
  • Water--Pollution--Superior, Lake.

An Ecological Assessment of Lake Dumping of Iron Ore Wastes (1981) 

Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad Company proposed coal unloading facility (1974) 

Review of 1989 amendments to Sand Dune Protection and Management Act (1993) 

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Drawer 2   3.0 drawers Drawer 2 contents: Harbors - Michigan

Fiction and poetry of the Upper Peninsula 1957-1979 

Scope and Contents note

Contains fiction and poetry by authors with connections to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Personal Name(s)

  • Reardon, Peter J.
  • Splake, T. Kilgore

Subject(s)

  • Authors, American--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Fiction--Michigan--Upper Peninsula
  • Poets, American--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.

A Blue Book of Silent Tides / by T. Kilgore Splake (1979) 

The Island Serf / by Peter J. Reardon (1957) 

Folklore and fables of the Upper Peninsula 2008-2009 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials related to folklore, humor, fables, and legends of the Upper Peninsula.

Controlled Access Headings

Subject(s)

  • Folklore--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.

Great Lakes Pilot (periodical, various issues) 

Forestry and forest industry of the Upper Peninsula 1941-1961 

Scope and contents note

Contains materials related to forestry and the logging industry of the Upper Peninsula.

Controlled Access Headings

Subject(s)

  • English language--Slang--Dictionaries.
  • Forests and forestry--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Log transportation.
  • Loggers--Language (New words, slang, etc.)
  • Logging--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Lumbering--Terminology.
  • Wheels.

Forest Resources of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (1941) 

The story of the Michigan Loggin Wheels (1961) 

Words words: A Comprehensive Dictionary of Loggers Terms (1958) 

Health and health care in the Upper Peninsula 1987-2012 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials relating to the health care industry and medical care of residents in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Subject(s)

  • Medical care--Michigan--Upper Peninsula--History.
  • Mentally ill aged--Institutional care--Michigan.
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Medical care.

Relocation effects on elderly patients within a regional psychiatric hospital system (1987) 

Upper Peninsula Medical Center Directory (2010, 2012) 

Historical and recreational sites of the Upper Peninsula 1973-2008 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials relating to existing and proposed historical sites in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Fayette State Park (Mich.)--Maps.
  • Marquette (Mich.)--Antiquities
  • Presque Isle (Mich. : Island)
  • Presque Isle Park (Marquette, Mich.)
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--History--Sources.
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--History.

Subject(s)

  • Archaeology--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Recreation--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.

Carp River Forged Iron Ore Interpretive Center (1973) 

Central Upper Peninsula regional recreation plan 

A cultural resource survey of Presque Isle Park, Marquette, Michigan (2008) 

Fayette Townsite guide map 

Michigan historic parks, a synopsis 

Proposed development (Michigan Meridian: Base Line State Historic Site, proposed) 

St. Quaeris Peninsula Amoenam, Circumspice- The Carp River Forge: A Place in History (1982) 

Upper Michigan, ahoy vacationist (1930) 

Immigrants and emigrants to the Upper Peninsula 1931-2002 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials related to the immigration, emigration and lives of ethnic groups in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Iron Mountain (Mich.)--History.
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Civilization.
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Emigration and immigration.
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Social life and customs.

Subject(s)

  • Belgian Americans--Upper Peninsula (Mich.)
  • Dutch Americans--Upper Peninsula (Mich.)
  • Immigrants--Upper Peninsula (Mich.)
  • Jews--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.

Belgian-American Research Materials (1976) 

The Dutch Transplanting in Michigan and the Midwest (1986) 

Economic aspects of land settlement in the cut-over region of the Great Lakes states (1931) 

In the Beginning, retold by Adeline Cohodas (1987) 

Kentuckians in the Upper Peninsula (2002) 

Lake Superior Roots 

Research Guide to Ethnic Lodges and Societies in Marquette County 

Marquette, Michigan 1898-2011 

Scope and Contents note

Includes historical information on the city of Marquette, Michigan and institutions and organizations located in the city.

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Marquette Branch Prison (Marquette, Mich.)--History.

Geographic Name(s)

  • Marquette (Mich.)--Charters.
  • Marquette (Mich.)--Politics and government.

Subject(s)

  • Marquette (Mich.)--History.
  • Pageants--Michigan--Marquette County.
  • Prisons--Michigan--Marquette.
  • Schools--Michigan--Marquette County.

History of the Marquette Public Schools 1854-1974 

Marquette Area Public Schools Calendar (2010/2011) 

Marquette in 1900 

Marquette Charters (1898, 1913) 

Marquette County Centennial Pageant, 1836-1936 (1936) 

Marquette County Telephone Co. (1911) 

Marquette on a vanishing frontier (from Harlow's Wooden Man) (1978) 

Marquette Township Community Profile (2011?) 

Northlander (April 1943) (this is a publication by and for the prisoners of the Marquette Branch Prison) 

Ordinance code of the City of Marquette (1955) 

Presque Isle Park, a Cultural Resource Survey 

Mines and mining in the Upper Peninsula 1840-1998 

Scope and Contents note

Includes various publications and printed material relating to the mining industry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company.

Geographic Name(s)

  • Gogebic Range Region (Mich. and Wis.)--History--Pictorial works.

Subject(s)

  • Copper mines and mining--Michigan--Upper Peninsula
  • Iron mines and mining--Gogebic Range Region (Mich. and Wis.)--History--Pictorial works.
  • Iron mines and mining--Michigan--Marquette Region--History.
  • Iron mines and mining--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.

A bond of interest, tracing more than 130 years of developing inter-relationships between the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company... (from Harlow's Wooden Man) (1978) 

Description of the exhibit of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. and Pioneer Iron Co. at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

Early days in the Copper Country of the Lake Superior District 

The Iron Ore Deposits of the Lake Superior Region 

Our Heritage: The History of the Gogebic Iron Range 

Restraining the Depletion of Domestic Reserves of Iron and Steel Scrap (1940) 

Upper Michigan's Copper Country and the Political Ecology of Copper, 1840's-1930's [1998] 

Victor F. Lemmer collection in the Michigan Historical Commission 

Missionaries and explorers of the Upper Peninsula 

Scope and Contents note

Includes material related to European missionaries and explorers of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Michigan--Upper Peninsula--History.
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Discovery and exploration.

Personal Name(s)

  • Marquette, Jacques, 1637-1675

Subject(s)

  • Explorers--Michigan--Biography.
  • Folk songs, French-Canadian.
  • French Americans--Great Lakes Region (North America).
  • Fur traders--Great Lakes Region (North America).
  • Missionaries--Michigan--Biography.

The Last Days of Father Marquette 

The Voyageurs and their songs 

Native American populations of the Upper Peninsula 1929-1970 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials related to Native Americans and their culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan.

Subject(s)

  • Indians of North America--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.

Chippewa Customs (1929-1970) 

Constitution and by-laws of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan (1936) 

Distribution of Aboriginal Population of Michigan 

Redman's Appalachia 

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Drawer3   3.0 drawers Drawer 3 Contents: Negaunee - Women

Northern Michigan University vertical file 1961-2009 

Scope and Contents note

Contains miscellaneous publications and information related to Northern Michigan University, its policies, and, its history.

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Northern Michigan University--History.

Personal Name(s)

  • Hurst, R. Victor

Department of Art and Design Handbook 

Political Review (November 2008) 

Political Review (October 2009) 

Recreational Services (1986/1987-1987/1988) 

R. Victor Hurst, Physical Educator and coach, 1925-1961 (1961) 

Pictorial works of the Upper Peninsula 1977-2009 

Scope and Contents note

Includes primarily photographic or graphic works depicting the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Alger County (Mich.)--Pictorial works.
  • Baraga County (Mich.)--Pictorial works.
  • Ishpeming (Mich.)--Pictorial works.
  • Marquette (Mich.)--Pictorial works.
  • Republic (Mich.)--Pictorial works.

Alger County (Mich.) 32 ready to mail post cards 

Baraga County (Mich.) Bicentennial Calendar (1977) 

1979 Baraga County (Mich.) Calendar 

Calendar, Pequaming Harbor (Baraga County, Mich.) During the Hebard Era (1980) 

1982 Baraga County (Mich.) Calendar 

1986 Baraga County (Mich.) Calendar 

Friends of the library, 1988 (Ishpeming (Mich.)) Calendar (including John Voelker photo in month of August) 

The historic Marquette calendar (1983) 

1991 in da U.P. calendar (Marquette (Mich.)) 

2009 Republic (Mich.) Calendar 

Politics and government of the Upper Peninsula 1982-1998 

Scope and Contents note

Contains historical information on government and politicians of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Politics and government.

Subject(s)

  • Governors--Michigan--Biography.
  • Legislators--Michigan--Biography.
  • Lobbyists--Michigan--Biography.

Brief History of the Life of Jim Goulette (1998) 

Directory, Upper Peninsula County Boards of Commissioners (1982) 

Selected bibliography of biographical sources for governors of the state of Michigan 

Regions and communities of the Upper Peninsula 1891-1997 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials about specific cities, towns, and villages of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Arvon (Mich. : Township)--History.
  • Baraga County (Mich.)--History.
  • Gogebic County (Mich.)--History.
  • Grand Marais (Mich.)--History.
  • Houghton County (Mich.)--History.
  • Ironwood (Mich.)--History.
  • Ishpeming (Mich.)--History.
  • Menominee (Mich.)--History.
  • Negaunee (Mich.)--History.
  • Republic (Mich.)--History.
  • Wakefield (Mich.)--History.

125 years: 1887-2012, Ishpeming Ski Club (2012) 

Arvon Township, 1871-1971, Skanee, Michigan : The first one hundred years 

Carnegie Public Library 75th Anniversary, Ishpeming, Michigan 1904-1979 

Early days in the Copper Country of the Lake Superior District (1938) 

Grand Marais (1979) 

A History of the Gogebic County (1930) 1930 

Ironwood directory (1921) 

Life on the farm: Republic farms past & present (1997) (Republic Historical Society) 

Menominee charter (1891) 

"A moving experience:" the partial relocation of a community: Republic, Michigan 

Shades of Old Negaunee, A 19th Century History 

Wakefield report 1928-1931 (1931) 

Rivers and waterways of the Upper Peninsula 1954-1978 

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials related to rivers, lakes, and waterways of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Sault Sainte Marie Canal (Mich.)
  • St. Mary's River (Mich. and Ont.)
  • Upper Peninsula (Mich.).

Subject(s)

  • Rivers--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.
  • Shipping--Great Lakes (North America).
  • Shipwrecks--Great Lakes (North America)--History.

Environmental Baseline and Evaluation of the St. Mary's River Dredging 

Grand Marais harbor, Michigan, Reconnaissance report on reducing future maintenance (1978) 1978 

Great Lakes Shipwrecks 

Through 100 Years (Sault Saint Marie Canal) (1954) 

U.S. waterborne foreign commerce, Great Lakes area, 1963 

 Foreman, Chuck The Upper Peninsula in War 

Scope and Contents note

This folder contains information relating to the Upper Peninsula's, and her citizen's, role in World War II. Also includes material related to local veterans' issues.

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp).
  • Ohrdruf (Concentration camp).
  • United States. Army. Infantry Division, 87th--History.
  • Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States--Membership.

Personal Name(s)

  • Foreman, Chuck

Subject(s)

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Ohrdruf.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Michigan--Upper Peninsula.

Chuck Foreman papers of the 345th Infantry Regiment ; includes facsimiles of newspaper articles, photographs, maps, and personal reminisences of Mr. Foreman ; the file also includes U.S. Army memos relating to the Army's findings upon the liberation of the Buchenwald and Ohrdruf Concentration Camps 

VFW Officers Roster / Department of Michigan (1979-1980) 

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