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Hargrave and Hill General Store records
Collection — Box: 15-05-02
Identifier: MSS-148
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of an inventory book of the Hargrave and Hill General Store's stock in 1900. Information includes items sold and their costs. The collection also includes provenancial information from the donor, newspaper clippings, and a photograph of the store.
Dates:
1900
Henry Jacobson papers
Collection — Box: 08-05-01
Identifier: MSS-386
Content Description
This collection consists primarily of memorabilia and correspondence from Henry Jacobson from 1932-1984. Other notable items include photographs and a scrapbook. This collection may be of interest to those researching employees of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Mining Company or Bethany Lutheran Church in Ishpeming.
Dates:
1932 - 1984
Henry R. Schoolcraft papers (microfilm) (Arch f 566 .S33 P26 1966)
Collection
Identifier: MISC-005
Scope and contents note
This collection contains microfilm copies of the Henry R. Schoolcraft papers housed at the Library of Congress. A complete finding aid is located here: http://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.mss.eadmss.ms000003&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=did&_dmdid=. Schoolcraft was a leader of expeditions throughout the Great Lakes region; member of Michigan's legislative council; Indian agent at Sault Sainte Marie and Mackinac Island (Mich.); superintendent of...
Dates:
1782 - 1878
Hiawatha Music Cooperative records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-405
Content Description
This collection contains paper materials, Reel to Reel tapes, posters, and photographic materials.
Dates:
1988-2005
Earl Hilton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-320
Scope and Contents note
This collection documents the career of Dr. Earl Hilton, formerly a professor of English at Northern Michigan University. It consists of syllabi, lecture notes, and handouts relating to a variety of English courses taught by Hilton while at Northern. The collection also contains Hilton's writings, presentations, and publications, which largely focus on American literature as do his course materials. Also included is a student term paper on music at Northern and correspondence and course...
Dates:
1947 - 1990
Miriam B. Hilton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-319
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains the papers of Miriam Hilton. The collection includes drafts, notes, news clippings, alumni questionnaires, and transcriptions of faculty interviews (Meyland, Hedgecock, Wahtera, and O'Dell) relating to her book Northern Michigan University: The First 75 Years. Also included are records relating to Church Women United of Marquette and writings of Hilton's father, Dr. John Elder.
Processed March 1995
Processed March 1995
Dates:
1949 - 1975
John M. Hogan papers
Collection — Box: 08-06-01
Identifier: MSS-069
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains scattered memorabilia, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting the life of John M. Hogan and his wife during and after their time at Northern Michigan College of Education in Marquette, Michigan. The collection includes a report to the Alumni Advisory Council for alumni association activities in 1939 and Hogan's academic transcript.
Dates:
1920 - 1945
Judge Garfield W. Hood oral history interview
Collection — cassette: Audio Cabinet: 2, Shelf: 9
Identifier: MSS-075
Scope and Contents Note
This oral history interview with Judge Garfield W. Hood documents the history of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community tribal court and government. Judge Hood was interviewed by Debra Williams. The complete interview is available online at the Recorded in Stone web site: http://voices.nmu.edu.
Dates:
1991
Industrial Arts Club records
Collection — Box: 15-05-01
Identifier: MSS-147
Scope and Contents Note
This collection documents the activities of the Industrial Arts Club (sometimes called the Industrial Education Club), particularly the construction of a float for the homecoming parade and selection of a club emblem. The collection ranges in date from 1958-1967 and includes meeting minutes, correspondence, and photographs.
Dates:
1958-1967
Iron Duke Mine Company records
Collection — Box: 21-02-02
Identifier: MSS-352
Content Description
This material was received in 1 banker box that contained 4 legal-size expanding wallets. The markings on the wallets were: “W31948 Frank Stone-Personal-Iron Duke Mine.” Inside of one was a pocket file with “Frank B. Stone from Bigelow the last gasp I’m sure” written on it. These wallets contained correspondence, large manila envelopes, stock options, proxy certificates, meeting minutes, financial reports, tax records, documents pertaining to the purchase and selling of the mine....
Dates:
1867 - 1962
Iron Workers Local 783 records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-024
Scope and Content Note
This collection documents the activities of Iron Workers Local 783. The collection consists of by-laws, meeting minutes, contracts, correspondence, financial records, audits, Pension Fund, Benefit Fund, and Health and Welfare Trust records. The collection also includes election information. The significant components of the collection are the by-laws, contracts, and a complete set of membership meeting minutes since 1957.Bylaws and Meeting Minutes, 1957-1997
Records include a...
Dates:
1957-1994
Ishpeming Co-Operative Society account book
Collection — Box: 15-05-02
Identifier: MSS-149
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains an account book that lists the grocery purchases made by John W. Bath at the Ishpeming Co-Operative Society store. The book lists various sundry items and their costs.
Dates:
1919
Ishpeming Pioneer Kiwanis Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-357
Scope and Contents
This record contains meeting minutes, official Kiwanis reports, service projects, publications member lists and financial information. The records are from the year 1977 to 2014 with some gaps.
Dates:
1977 - 2014
Ishpeming Ski Club records
Collection — Box: 04-07-01
Identifier: MSS-254
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials relating to the Ishpeming Ski Club in Ishpeming, Michigan from 1904-1948. The materials consist of skier biographies, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes and annual reports, and correspondence.
Dates:
1904-1948
Italian-American Federation of the Upper Peninsula records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-056
Scope and Contents note
This collection includes a membership roll and dues book from 1922 covering various local Italian-American fraternal associations in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (see Russell M. Magnaghi's "Miners, Merchants, and Midwives" (1987), pp. 65-72). Also included are correspondence from Italian-Americans to Msgr. David Spelgatti of Ishpeming, Michigan. The collection is entirely in Italian.
Dates:
1922
Italian American Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: MSS-202
Scope and Contents note
This collection primarily consists of audiotapes of the interviews, arranged alphabetically by interviewee surname, as well as an inventory of contents, a subject index to the interviews, and transcripts and/or summaries of certain interviews. Also included are some student papers that used the project's interviews as sources.
Dates:
1982-2002
Dominic J. Jacobetti papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-078
Scope and Contents note
The Dominic Jacobetti Collection documents his position as Representative from Marquette County and the Upper Peninsula, including his activities on the House Appropriations Committee and several other committees on which he served. His position as Representative encompassed at various times the 108th, 109th, and 110th Districts. The records cover the years 1954 to 1994 and include a wealth of materials pertaining to the following:Ø Upper Peninsula local governments,...
Dates:
1954-1994; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1994
Jacques family genealogy
Item — Box: 06-02-02
Identifier: MSS-002
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains a detailed narrative of the genealogical tree of the Jacques Family, a French Canadian immigrant family, from 1662 to 1919. The family tree was created in 1919 by Arthur Francis Jacques. The collection also includes additional notes written by Emery E. Jacques Jr, n.d.; Mercedes Jacques Kimling in 1981; and Daphne Jacques Treado Hodder in 1992.
Dates:
1662-1919
John X. Jamrich and June Jamrich Dinner photographs
Collection — Box: 24-07-01
Identifier: MSS-262
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs taken at the dinner for John X. and June Jamrich in July 2012 and July 2013 in Marquette, Michigan.
Dates:
2012-2013
John X. Jamrich papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-315
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, speeches, reports, and publications of John X. Jamrich, Northern Michigan University president from 1968 to 1983.The bulk of the collection consists of publications and reports relating to higher education for which Jamrich had some responsibility. Several of the reports were the result of work conducted by the Survey of Higher Education in Michigan prepared for the Michigan Legislative Study Committee on Higher Education.There are also working copies of...
Dates:
1957 - 1994
John X. Jamrich photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-100
Scope and Contents note
This collection of photographs documents some of former Northern Michigan University President John X. Jamrich's official duties on campus. Of particular note are the images of the Physical Education and Instructional Facility (PEIF) ground-breaking and Kaye House (the official residence of the President) receptions. The photographs date from 1968 to 1983.
Dates:
1968 - 1983
Janzen House records
Collection — Box: 04-07-01
Identifier: MSS-252
Scope and Contents
This is a small manuscript collection containing correspondence relating to the Janzen Hotel, the "Save the Janzen Hotel" committee and project, a poster for the Save the Janzen Hotel Week Benefit Film Series, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1983-1985
John H. Pitezel papers microfilm
Collection — Box: Microfilm Cabinet 1--Drawer 3
Identifier: MSS-369
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Pitezel’s correspondence mostly to family and friends (with notes and related materials), journals, and writings (essays and a poem), many of which later became books.Most of his letters are to his mother, brother, Joshua, and sisters, Caroline and Mary. They detail his religious activities, beliefs, the people and situations in which he traveled, preached, and lived, family news, the weather, and illnesses. He was strongly anti-Catholic and reported often on...
Dates:
1824 - 1889
John N. Lowe scrapbook
Collection — Box: 09-05-03
Identifier: MSS-362
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a cloth-bound field journal and a bound scrapbook.
The field journal is embossed with the title: “Simmons Wood, Biological Survey; By John W. Lowe. June 20, 1930.” The field journal contains a research journal documenting the field work done at Simmons Wood, located in Western Mackinac County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The journal has information relating to lakes, streams, game animals, birds, and plants that can be found in Simmons Wood. It also includes...
Dates:
1930 - 1938
John R. Watanen papers
Collection — Box: 02-02-04
Identifier: MSS-372
Scope and Contents note
Papers of John R. Watanen, an English professor at Northern Michigan University, relating to his involvement with the university's Academic Senate and various senate committees.
Dates:
1947 - 1971
Gene D. L. Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-318
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the service files of Northern Michigan University history professor Gene D. L. Jones. It contains the records (1968-1979) of the Upper Great Lakes Teacher Education Council, the 1984 report of the Task Force on Liberal Education Requirements, and the constitution and minutes (1970) of the Upper Peninsula Regional Council for the Social Sciences. Also in the collection are syllabi for Jones's courses, some of his research notes, and documentation of the Robert F....
Dates:
1967-1989
Roland Juchemich memoirs
Collection — Box: 19-01-03
Identifier: MSS-336
Scope and Contents
The Roland Juchemich memoirs, MSS-336, consists of five series with a total of 8 folders. Series 1: Events -- Biannual Tracy Mine Reunion, 1 folder containing flyers and news articles referencing the reunions.Series 2: News Clippings, 1 folder containing newspaper and newsletter articles relating to the Tracy Mine. The majority of these clippings were taken from the Jones and McLaughlin Ore Company newsletters.Series 3: Memories, 1 folder containing...
Dates:
1951 - 1993
Judith Burrows Petersen scrapbook
Collection — Box: 04-07-01
Identifier: MSS-283
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials contained within a looseleaf binder scrapbook donated to the Archives. Materials to be found within this collection are:Pierce Journal (Summer 1948)
The Pierce Journal was established to give college students and teachers who did not have the opportunity to visit the Training School a look at the type of work that was done by each grade. It also served to show students in other classrooms within the school what the other classes...
Dates:
1943 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1943 - 1953
Judith DeMark papers
Collection — Box: 02-07-03
Identifier: MSS-205
Scope and Contents
These files contain research documents by Judith DeMark, a former Northern Michigan University history professor, on the history of Marquette. Topics include mining, immigration, Finnish folklore, and tuberculosis.
Dates:
1848 - 1998
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This is your guide to our historical collections of personal papers, organizational records, and manuscripts. Our collections cover such topics as Northern Michigan University history, the local iron mining industry, and the politics, economics, religion, environment, and culture of the Central Upper Peninsula region. Search by Keyword, Name, Title, Subject, or Collecting Areas. The finding aids for our collections will give you an overview of the contents and information on where they are located.Northern Michigan University
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