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4Reels Club records
Collection — Box: 09-05-03
Identifier: MSS-387
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two folders. One is photographs of the club members and their activities. The other is a manual containing a history of the club and summaries of their activities. It documents the activities of Digital Cinema majors and those interested in film at Northern Michigan University in the 2010s.
Dates:
2014
Ansel Adams oral history interview
Collection — Box: 15-05-02
Identifier: MSS-126
Scope and Contents Note
Dennis Staffne and Diane Kordich, of the Department of Art and Design at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan, conducted this interview with renowned landscape photographer Ansel Adams in 1981. Questions deal with Adams' methodology as a photographer. The collection's materials include a list of questions asked and copies of the interview on cassette and CD-R.
Dates:
1981
Michigan AFSCME-AFL/CIO Councils 7, 11, and 25 records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-158
Scope and Contents note
This collection documents eight years, between 1971 and 1978, of Michigan AFSCME-AFL/CIO Councils #7, 11, and 25 records. The collection includes: correspondence to and from Joseph Healy, union president at the time; grievances; promotion demands; union member demands and management proposals; amendments and resolutions; Michigan university agreement books; local and council minutes and bylaws; council constitution; convention proceedings; authorization for union dues; seniority lists; booklets...
Dates:
1971 - 1978
Del Alpino Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-057
Scope and Contents note
This collection is comprised of a membership roll and dues book for the Del Alpino Club in Calumet, Michigan. The materials are entirely in Italian and date from 1911 to 1922.
Dates:
1911 - 1922
Amnesty International, NMU Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-332
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, program and speaker flyers, news clippings, and miscellaneous materials of the Northern Michigan University chapter of Amnesty International, an international human rights organization primarily concerned with freeing political prisoners through letter writing campaigns. The collection also contains correspondence, news clippings, notes, and petitions relating to the release of John Pierce, an NMU student jailed in Peru in 1981.
Dates:
1980 - 1987
Lloyd Anderson papers
Collection — Box: 06-02-02
Identifier: MSS-001
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains correspondence between Anderson and John D. Voelker concerning fly fishing. Voelker frequently requested tied flies from Anderson and often discussed their effectiveness in his trout fishing.
Dates:
1966 - 1982.; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1971.
Au Train Regional Documents Collection
Collection
Identifier: RDC-3
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of documents relating to the hydroelectric project planned for Au Train, Michigan, and its possible environmental impact on the area.
Dates:
1950 - 2000
Aurora newsletter records
Collection — Box: 06-02-02
Identifier: MSS-005
Scope and Contents note
This collection features a newsletter focused on providing items of interest regarding and a vehicle for reaching out to lesbians and gays in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Materials consist both of local news items and news digests taken from a variety of national newspapers and magazines. The newsletter is published in Marquette, Michigan by Francine Malindzak and Mary Denilauler.
Dates:
1990 - 1996
Judith Bailey papers
Collection — Box: 02-07-05
Identifier: MSS-174
Scope and Content
This collection is composed of the papers of Judith Bailey, who was the president of Northern Michigan University from 1998 to 2003. Her papers are primarily centered around her hiring and include related articles, press releases, and correspondence, dating from 1997 to 2003. Other materials include statistics about NMU enrollment, costs and productivity during her time as president.
Dates:
1997 - 2003
Barbeau and Scranton shipping records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-061
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains correspondence, financial records, ship manifests, legal documents, insurance, and other documents which pertain to the business transactions and shipping of Peter B. Barbeau and the Scranton family, bankers and general merchants to and from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The collection provides important historical insight into nineteenth century trade between the Upper Peninsula, Canada, and various cities and regions around the Great Lakes. The collection's...
Dates:
1820 - 1909
Bay de Noquet Company and Oconto Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-173
Scope and contents note
The Bay de Noquet Company and Oconto Company records document lumbering in northeastern Wisconsin and the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan from the end of World War I to about 1950. While the records for each company are scattered, the combined records give a reasonable picture of the problems faced by the industry in the upper Great Lakes region due to the declining availability of usable timber and the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as some of the issues faced by the companies...
Dates:
1895-1952
Bernice M. Bal scrapbook
Collection — Box: 02-07-04
Identifier: MSS-216
Content Description
This scrapbook created by Bernice M. Bal was donated to the Archives by NMU Professor Russell Magnaghi. It documents her time spent at Northern State Teachers College. The scrapbook includes class schedules, news articles on events on campus and in the community, programs, miscellaneous articles, letters/invitations, and graduating class roster listings.
Dates:
1925 - 1934
Beta Omega Tau records
Collection — Box: 26-04-01
Identifier: MSS-121
Scope and Contents Note
This collection documents the activities of Beta Omega Tau, a sorority on the Northern Michigan University campus in Marquette, Michigan. Records include correspondence, financial materials, photographs, and meeting minutes. Photographs are of a class reunion in the late 1980s and of a dinner in Lee Hall in the 1950s. The minutes of meetings are the most important component of the collection and include the constitution, pledge riturals, some lists of members, and regular lists of officers. ...
Dates:
1929-1989; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1948
Bethany Lutheran Church papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-303
Scope and Contents
This collection includes various administrative and financial records and reports, as well as publications and bulletins, photographs, and correspondence, and ranges in date from 1870 to about the year 2000. The early records of the church are mostly in the older ledgers and journals and are in Swedish through about 1928-1929, although some groups, like the youth group and Young Ladies Sewing Circle, changed to English at an earlier date.
The records from the later years are a combination of...
Dates:
1800 - 2000
Bietila Brothers photographs
Collection — Box: 08-06-01
Identifier: MSS-072
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains photographs from of Walter Bietila and his brothers Ralph and Paul. The pictures chronicle the family's success in the sport of ski jumping. The photographs are dated between 1936 and 1942.
Dates:
1936 - 1942
Bookbinders Cafe photographs
Collection — Box: 07-01-05
Identifier: MSS-162
Scope and Contents Note
This collection is composed of ten photo albums filled with photographs of students and staff of Bookbinders Cafe, located in the basement of the Harden Learning Resources Center. The photographs were taken between 1980 and 1993. The collection also includes news clippings, awards, letters, cards, and a biography of Maggie Britton, the cafe manager.
Dates:
1980 - 1993
Robert M. Bordeau papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-009
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains Northern Michigan University memorabilia collected by Robert M. Bordeau while a student at the school and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the NMU Development Fund. The collection contains contains mostly correspondence, including Bordeau's criticism of the Northern Michigan University administration's decision to close the Department of Music's string program. Responses from Robert Glenn, President Jamrich, and Elda Tate are also included. The collection also...
Dates:
1955 - 1982
Leslie Bourgeois family films
Collection — Box: 09-01-04
Identifier: MSS-046
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains extensive home movies documenting the activities of the Bourgeois family in and around Marquette, Michigan and the Upper Peninsula from 1920 to 1969. Footage includes scenes on the Northern Michigan University campus in Marquette. The collection includes VHS production originals and user duplicate copies.
Dates:
1920-1969
Jeannette S. Bowden papers
Collection — Box: 26-03-05
Identifier: MSS-095
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs that document Jeannette Bowden's receipt of the Northern Michigan University (NMU) Distinguished Alumni Award (1971) and her retirement in 1980. Most of the correspondence is laudatory and congratulatory in content and tone. The collection contains very little substantive material documenting her career at NMU. The collection also contains a transcript of a speech given by Bowden in 1965 that summarizes her work...
Dates:
1936 - 2005
John Boyd letters
Collection — Box: 26-07-04
Identifier: MSS-019
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains three letters written in 1927, 1930, and 1932 from John Boyd in Barcelona, Spain to his cousin Frank Ellison of Marquette, Michigan. The letters include description of life and politics in Barcelona post-World War I; Mussolini and fascism; economics and world depression; predictions concerning war; "talkie films" including the movie, "The Broadway Melody"; and family matters.
Dates:
1927-1932
Burton H. Boyum papers
Collection — Box: 23-01-05
Identifier: MSS-123
Content Description
This collection documents Boyum's business and travel activities. Records include correspondence, publications, travel memorabilia and documents, financial material, photographs, calendars, and newsclippings.
Dates:
1922 - 1999
Briar Hill Mine shaft blueprint
Collection — oversize: Map Cabinet 1 Drawer 2
Identifier: MSS-122
Scope and Contents Note
This collection consists of one blueprint design of a mine shaft for the Briar Hill Mine. The blueprint includes a detailed list of supplies and labor required to sink the shaft. Information includes cost of labor, timber, explosives, cost of fuel, hoistings, blacksmithing and supplies. The shaft was expected to reach a depth of 1,200 feet and take two years for construction. The blueprint is signed by "Captain William Bond" and dated 1911.
Dates:
1911
Muriel Bunker papers
Collection — Box: 08-02-04
Identifier: MSS-159
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains letters to and from Marquette, Michigan native Muriel Bunker, written while she served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Most of the correspondence is from Muriel to her parents. Other correspondence includes letters from Muriel to her sister, from Muriel to her Aunt Min and Uncle Ed Anderson, from her brother Earl to Muriel, and from the soldiers to their mother. The bulk of the collection is dated between 1942 and 1945. The collection includes a few...
Dates:
1942 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1945
Cambium Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-338
Scope and Contents note
Collection documents the activities of the Cambium Club, a student organization for those majoring, minoring, or interested in the field of biology, or students engaged in social activities and educational programs in biology. The collection includes financial records, constitution, by-laws, brochures and flyers, membership lists, correspondence, newspaper clippings, club meeting minutes (1948-1955). Also includes club newsletters and the Junior Academy News, a publication of the Junior Academy...
Dates:
1938 - 1975
Gildo Canale sports memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: MSS-034
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists mainly of Northern Michigan University basketball and football game programs; photographs of teams, athletic activities, and coaches; and news articles related to NMU sports from 1928 to 1992. The collection also includes a football program from 1992.
Dates:
1928-1992
Canisteo Mining Company records
Collection — Box: 21-01-03
Identifier: MSS-261
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the Canisteo Mining Company president's office's executive activities for the Canisteo Mining Company from 1904 to 1932. The collection contains correspondence, leases and related negotiation memorandums, exploration records, statements: expense, inventory, labor, payroll, property taxes, and royalty documents all pertaining to Mesabi Iron Range (Minnesota) properties.Record Series 1. Financial records, including payroll, invoices and receipts for...
Dates:
1904 - 1931
Catherine Witting scrapbook
Collection — Box: 09-05-03
Identifier: MSS-359
Scope and Contents
This collection, MSS-359, Catherine Witting scrapbook, consists of one green cloth-bound volume with the words “The School Girl’s Memory Book” embossed on the front cover. Catherine Witting was a student at Northern State Normal School and graduated in June 1920 with a degree in home economics. The scrapbook documents various activities and people Ms. Witting was involved with from 1917 to 1921. There is a photograph of the Northern State Normal School 1919-1920 faculty and a copy of the 1920...
Dates:
1917 to 1921
Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives Postcard collection
Collection — Box: 19-01-03
Identifier: MSS-374
Content Description
This is an artificial collection of postcards relating to Northern Michigan University and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that have been received at the NMU Archives from various sources.
Dates:
1900 - 1985
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