Citizens to Save the Superior Shoreline records
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains correspondence, newsletters, new releases and articles, reports, membership lists, meeting minutes, and environmental reference materials of Reference files. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence, reports, and newsletters. Also included are newsletters, correspondence, occasional meeting minutes, bylaws, and miscellaneous materials of the group which was involved in general Lake Superior Basin issues. There is also scattered correspondence (1969-1989) of Dorothy Bird, founder of Citizens to Save the Superior Shoreline.
Dates
- 1967-1996
Creator
- Citizens to Save the Superior Shoreline (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access note
No restrictions. Open for research.
Conditions Governing Use note
Permission to publish material from the Citizens to Save the Superior Shoreline records, MSS-011, must be obtained from the University Archivist. The University Archivist may be reached by phone at 906-227-1225, or e-mail, archives@nmu.edu. The University Archivist may also be reached in Room 126 of the Learning Resource Center, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI.
Historical Note
Citizens to Save the Superior Shoreline was an environmental organization formed in 1969 to halt the Upper Peninsula Power Company's proposed construction of a generating plant at Little Presque Isle in Marquette, Michigan. The group also monitored and engaged in letter writing campaigns involving other environmental issues such as water pollution, shoreline erosion, beautification of Marquette's Lower Harbor area, Reserve Mining (Silver Bay/Babbitt, Minnesota) taconite pollution, Seafarer (ELF)/Project Sanguine, Upper Peninsula Power Company expansion at Presque Isle Harbor, and the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad proposed coal unloading dock (also at Presque Isle Harbor). The organization was also a member of the Save Lake Superior Association out of Duluth, Minnesota.
Extent
8 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement note
Arranged alphabetically by subject heading.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was acquired from Dr. William Robinson, former professor of biology at Northern Michigan University.
Separated Materials Note
During collection processing, the staff separated several items to various locations in the Archives. For a complete list of these items, please see the donor agreement located in the Archives reading room.
- Bird, Dorothy Maywood (Author)
- Bylaws (administrative records) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Citizens to Save the Superior Shoreline
- Correspondence. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Electric power-plants. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Environmental protection. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Environmental quality. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Environmentalism. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Environmentalists. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Industries. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lake Superior. Subject Source: Fast
- Little Presque Isle (Mich.). Subject Source: Local sources
- Marquette (Mich.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Membership lists. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Minutes (administrative records). Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Newsletters. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Political participation. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pollution. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Power resources. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Presque Isle Park (Marquette, Mich.) Subject Source: Local sources
- Reports. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Upper Peninsula Power Company
Source
- Robinson, William Laughlin (Person)
- Title
- Citizens to Save the Superior Shoreline records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Clare Hensley and Marcus C. Robyns
- Date
- January 1996
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 4/22/2010: finding aid revisiion description not supplied
Repository Details
Part of the Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives Repository
Harden Learning Resources Center 126
1401 Presque Isle Ave
Marquette 49855 United States
906-227-1225
906-227-1333 (Fax)
archives@nmu.edu
