Collection Register
Funding for the arrangement and description of these collections was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). The Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections received a federal grant in 2009 to support a two-year project to improve the description of its historical collections and share more of this information across the web. The grant, Award No: RB-50059-09 “Coming to the Surface: Revealing Hidden Collections in Michigan’s Copper Country,” was awarded by the National Historical Records and Publications Commission (NHPRC), a statutory body affiliated with the National Archives and Records Administration. The following represents the records now discoverable through OCLC's WorldCat and Michigan Tech's catalog. While the grant ended on October 31, 2011, the Collection Register will continue to be updated as new collections become available.
Archives Vertical Files
The Michigan Tech Archives maintains an extensive series of vertical files, materials that are assembled on the basis of topic by archives staff. Contents of vertical files include photographs, newspaper clippings, flyers, programs, and other materials not often found in archival manuscript collections.
The vertical files are divided into five categories:
- Biographical (materials about individuals or family names)
- Copper Country Vertical Files (CCVF, text-based materials about local history)
- Michigan Tech Vertical Files (MTUVF, text-based materials about campus history)
- Copper Country Photograph Files (CCPF, images of local history)
- Michigan Tech Photograph Files (MTUPF, images of campus history).
The index of vertical files is subject to periodic updates, but the link provided should always point to the most recent version. Please note that this is only an index. The contents of the vertical files themselves have, with the exception of the Copper Country Photo Files, largely not been digitized.
A column to the left of each vertical file title indicates the category to which it belongs. Users may conduct a keyword search of the document by holding down the Control and F keys simultaneously (or Command and F on a Macintosh operating system) to open a search box.
Access to Michigan Tech Archives Vertical File Index
Finding Aids to Archives' Manuscript Collection
MS-001 — The Quincy Mining Company Collection
MS-002 — The Calumet and Hecla Mining Companies Collection
MS-006 — June Ross Cornish American Collection
MS-007 — The June Ross Marriage Indexes for Cornwall
MS-008 — The June and Richard Ross Collection
MS-009 — The Fortnightly Club Collection
MS-010 — The Brockway Diary Collection
MS-011 — Kendall Family Photographs
MS-013 — Ross Collection of Christening Records of Cornwall, England
MS-016 — Daniel Brockway Family Collection
MS-017 — The Blue Skirt Waltz Sheet Music
MS-019 — The Brockway Photograph Collection
MS-021 — White Pine Solution Mining Papers
MS-022 — Wendel Johnson Papers
MS-023 — Arizona and Michigan Mining Company Ledgers
MS-024 — League of Women's Voters of the Copper Country Records
MS-026 — Temple Jacob Collection
MS-027 — Copper Country Cemetery Collection
MS-028 — The J. Robert Van Pelt Copper Range Company Research Collection
MS-029 — The Bill Brinkman Collection
MS-030 — Portage Lake Area Association for Family and Community Education Records
MS-031 — The Longyear Spitsbergen Collection
MS-032 — Kukkonen Studio Photographic Collection
MS-033 — Quincy Mine Hoist Association Collection
MS-034 — Peter Crebassa Collection
MS-035 — Copper Country Masonic Lodge Collection
MS-037 — U.S. Navy Seafarer Program/ Project ELF Collection
MS-038 — Herman Gundlach Photograph Collection
MS-040 — Miscowaubik Club Records
MS-041 — Herman Gundlach Architectural Drawings Collection
MS-042 — John T. Reeder Photograph Collection
MS-043 — Keweenaw Historical Society Collection
MS-044 — Earl Gagnon Photograph Collection
MS-045 — Calumet and Hecla Mining Companies Geological Map Collection
MS-048 — Mining Company Abstracts
MS-050 — Harold Putnam Collection
MS-051 — Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
MS-053 — Portage Entry Quarries Company Collection
MS-054 — Portage Lake United Church
MS-056 — Hancock Home Study Club Records
MS-058 — Clarence Monette Collection
MS-059 — Institute on Lake Superior Geology Collection
MS-060 — NAMI Keweenaw Area Records
MS-062 — Atlas Powder in Senter, Michigan Research Papers
MS-065 — Richard M. Hoar Correspondence
MS-071 — Janet Dalquist Pipe Organ Collection
MS-072 — Coon Family Glass Plate Negatives
MS-079 — WHDF Radio Station Records
MS-080 — Copper Range Company Records
MS-082 — Reverend Herman Page Collection
MS-088 — "What Is It Like to Live in a Lighthouse?" Manuscript
MS-090 — Houghton County Board of Commissioners Records
MS-095 — Lake Superior Radio Club Records
MS-121 — August Parta Grocery Daybook
MS-134 — Verna Grahek Mize:Save Lake Superior Campaign Collection
MS-137 — Russell Magnaghi Collection
MS-143 — Superior Foods Cooperative Inc. Records
MS-166 — Seaman Family Collection
MS-183 — Samuel Alexander Parnall Autobiography
MS-202 — Lucius L. Hubbard Correspondence
MS-220 — Ben R. Chynoweth Collection
MS-229 - Keweenaw County Clerk's Office Records
MS-236 — General Store Account Books
MS-239 — Frederick Fraley Sharpless Photograph Collection
MS-266 — Italian American Federation of the Upper Peninsula Records
MS-267 — Italian Mutual Beneficial Society Records
MS-268 — Club Alpino Pont e Locana Records
MS-269 — Lake Linden Congregational Church Records
MS-273 — Copper Country Heritage Council Records
MS-283 — Mary Harrington Diaries
MS-292 — Eagle Harbor School District Records
MS-314 — Calumet Ingot Club Records
MS-315 — Arnold Mining Company Records
MS-332 — Bosch Brewing Company Radio Commercials
MS-337 — Albert Paine Memorial United Methodist Church Records
MS-345 — Calumet Brewing Company Records
MS-349 — August and Joseph Mayworm Papers
MS-358 — Charles M. Harry Photograph Albums
MS-363 — American Red Cross - Superior Upper Peninsula Chapter Collection
MS-370 — Jay A. Hubbell Scrapbooks
MS-400 — Quincy Mining Company Photograph Collection
MS-418 — Copper Country Dairy Records
MS-420 — Ruth G. Butler Papers
MS-429 — Mass Co-operative Company Records
MS-435 — Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company Forest Survey Records
MS-443 — H. Kenneth Hamar Collection
MS-444 — Dr. Clarence Bennetts Collection
MS-445 — Coppertown USA Mining Museum Records
MS-448 — Upper Peninsula Firefighters Memorial Museum Records
MS-455 — Kenneth L. Dorman Collection
MS-466 — Houghton County Sanatorium Photograph Collection
MS-475 — Friends of the Land of Keweenaw Newspaper Clippings
MS-497 — Martin L. Britz Collection
MS-525 — Roland Burgan Collection
MS-531 — Trinity Episcopal Church Records
MS-580 — Paul Hinzmann Photograph Collection
MS-584 — William S. Thomas Papers
MS-585 — Swande Godell Collection
MS-587 — Daily Mining Gazette Records Collection
MS-596 — Keweenaw Cooperative Inc. Collection
MS-601— Wilbert Salmi Collection
MS-609 — Calumet Women's Club Collection
MS-613 — Joseph Singer Wildberg Stock Collection
MS-614 — Ontonagon County Historical Society Newsletters
MS-624 — Steamship Ivanhoe Freight Books
MS-634 — Henry Trathen Personal Store Account Books
MS-638 — Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Stereographs
MS-661 — Grant Township Records
MS-666 — Stock Certificate Collection
MS-670 — Mason Family Collection
MS-671 — Stephen Pierce Personal Store Account Books
MS-673 — Charles K. Hyde Collection
MS-679 — Kerredge Hardware Records
MS-683 — Perkins Burnham Correspondence
MS-693 — St. Joseph's Community Hospital Records and Research Collection
MS-696 — Fight For Justice Tribal Takeover Collection
MS-700 — Ocha Potter Autobiography
MS-701 — Keweenaw County Elections and School Records
MS-704 — Calumet Matinee Musicale Club Yearbooks
MS-714 — Algomah Mining Company Records
MS-715 — Keweenaw Printing Company Samples
MS-717 — Scott Print Shop Samples
MS-722 — Bosch Brewing Company Delivery Logs
MS-724 — Flora Baumgartner Diary
MS-741 — Jacobsville Community Club Records
MS-751 — Copper Country Store Ledgers
MS-754 — Kathryn Bishop Eckert Sandstone Architecture Research Papers
MS-768 — Houghton County Election Records
MS-776 — Hiltunen Potato Farm Papers
MS-780 — Nissila Livery and Greenhouse Collection
MS-785 — Lawton Family Collection
MS-787 — Central School Records
MS-789 — The Stenson Collection of Walter S. Prickett Papers
MS-792 — Northland Historical Consortium Records
MS-796 — Adams Township Schools Daily Attendence Registers
MS-797 — J. W. Nara Photograph Collection
MS-799 — Oliver A. Farwell Papers
MS-808 — Franklin School Records
MS-812 — Huss Ontonagon Mill Division Records
MS-818 — Historic Houghton Walking Tour Research Material
MS-837 — Copper Country Reading Council Records
MS-841 — T. Kilgore Splake Collection
MS-851 — Western Upper Peninsula Planning and Development Region Survey Photograph Collection
MS-854 — Hanchette and Lawton Case Files on the Copper Miners' Strike
MS-857 — Donald L. Nelson Maritime Collection
MS-866 — Grace United Methodist Church Records
MS-869 — Victoria Copper Mining Company Records
MS-872 — Register of Deaths, State of Michigan, Township of Schoolcraft
MS-884 — F. Peter Ambrosiani Photograph Collection
MS-886 — Ivy Rebekah Lodge #163 Minutes
MS-891 — Hennes Family Collection
MS-892 — Pine Mountain Music Festival Records
MS-893 — Druggist's Prescription Notebook
MS-894 — Delaware Copper Mining Company Contract Book
MS-905 — Huron Dam Disaster Collection
MS-907 — Tossava Family Collection
MS-909 — David S. Coon Newspaper Clippings and Correspondence
MS-910 — Ollila Household Account Ledgers
MS-911 — Mihelcic and Reagan Family Papers
MS-912 — Copper Country Survey Records
MS-913 — Combo Family Genealogy
MS-916 — Baril Family Genealogy
MS-917 — United States Coast Guard Cutter Mesquite Investigation Report and Photograph
MS-918 — Harvey William Raymond Papers
MS-919 — Minnesota Land Company Records
MS-920 — Brodeur and Banks Family Papers
MS-921 — Bosch Brewing Company Photographs
MS-922 — Houghton/Keweenaw County Vietnam Moving Wall Memorial Ceremonies Program
MS-923 — Frances Mary Potter Photograph Album Collection
MS-924 — Dr. Robert and Ruth Nara Collection
MS-925 — Quincy Mine Hoist No 2 Photograph Collection
MS-926 — Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hecla Lodge 90 Financial Ledger Scrapbook
MS-927 — Helia Jarvia Songbook Diary
MS-928 — Rockland and Victoria Digital Photographs
MS-929 — Copper Bowl Football Collection
MS-930 — Houghton Motor Transit Collection
MS-931 — Doris Bable Cornish Genealogy Collection
MS-932 — Andy Abbott Postcard Collection
MS-934 — The First Presbyterian Church of Houghton, Michigan, Its People and Activities Scrapbook
MS-935 — Coughlin and Gray Family Papers
MS-937 — "Hidden Gems and Towering Tales: A Hancock, Michigan Anthology" Collection
MS-939 — Prince Fuse Factory Article
MS-940 — Virtual Upper Peninsula Web Project Records
MS-941 — Minor Houses/Miner Houses: Keweenaw Heritage Center Exhibit Report
MS-943 — Nash and Siira Families Papers Finding Aid
MS-945 — Peter Richard Steinen Diary
MS-947 — Osceola Township Canceled Voter Registration Forms
MS-948 — Cannon and Cole Families Collection
MS-949 — A.B. Quello Photograph Collection
MS-950 — Scott Hotel Collection
MS-951 — Historic Transportation Timetables Collection
MS-952 — Mary Ralph Erkkila and Annie Sullivan Ralph Family Papers
MS-953 — Robert E. Sherman Papers
MS-954 — Leonard Rajaniemi Memoirs
MS-956 — Torch Lake Oral History Project
MS-957 — Houghton and Portage Township Recreation Report
MS-958 — Pastora, Pastore, Boggio, and Ricca Family History
MS-959 — Copper Country Photograph Collection
MS-960 — Copper Country Historical Resource Partnership Records
MS-961 — Copper Country Streetcars Student Research Collection
MS-962 — Eskola Postcard Collection
MS-963 — Brenda Papke Photograph Collection
MS-965 — David Doss Collection on Sparrow-Kroll
MS-966 — Ovist Family Portage Lake Lift Bridge Photograph Collection
MS-967 — Copper Country Aerial Photographs
MS-969 — Copper Country Hockey History
MS-970 — William Zimmerman Photograph Collection
MS-971 — Keweenaw Land Trust Records
MS-973 — Annual Reports of the Shelden Estate Company Collection
MS-975 — Writing Across the Curriculum Collection
MS-976 — Newport Mine Photograph
MS-977 — Copper Country Associated Artists Collection
MS-978 — Calumet Public Hospital Negative Collection
MS-979 — Sarah Sargent Paine Memorial Library Report
MS-980 — Smith and Petermann Family Collection
MS-981 — Ladies Industrial Society of Hancock Congregational Church Records
MS-982 — Grant application and capital request for the Houghton County Historical Museum
MS-983 — Thomas Stimpson Letters
MS-985 — Claiming Iggy DVD and Memorabilia
MS-986 — Close House Collection
MS-987 — Josephine Solf Scrapbook
MS-988 — Joseph A. Savini Hockey Collection
MS-989 — White Pine Slide Collection
MS-990 — Mitch Lake WMPL Transcripts and Other Material
MS-991 — Jacobsville School Teachers' Attendance and Scholarship Records and Reports
MS-992 — L. A. Jacobson Laird School Class Record Books
MS-995 — Bartonen Estate Photograph Collection
MS-996 — Robert Schwaderer Construction Slide Collection
MS-997 — Andrew H. Koski Mining Employee Payroll Envelopes and Pay Stubs
MS-998 — Copper Country Slide Collection
MS-999 — Governor William G. Milliken Upper Peninsula Tour Collection
MS-1000 — Sedlar Family World War II Scrapbook
MS-1001 — Keweenaw TOPS Club Photograph and Scrapbook Albums
MS-1002 — Copper Range Smelting Operations Data Book and Transcription
MS-1003 — Johnson and O'Brien Families Papers
MS-1004 — Croteau Family Railroad Photographs
MS-1005 — Daniel LeVeque Collection of Gundlach Champion, Inc. Material
MS-1006 — Libbie Hermann Family Photograph Albums
MS-1007 — Meinardi Family Papers
MS-1008 — Onigaming Yacht Club Records
MS-1009 — William J. Sproule Papers
MS-1010 — Margaret Ziemnick 4-H Papers
MS-1011 — Stanton Township Assessment Roll
MS-1012 — Copper Country Charities, Inc. Records
MS-1013 — The Red Stone Industry of the Upper Peninsula
MS-1014 — The Rise and Fall of the Bosch Brewery, 1874-1873
MS-1015 — Michigan Department of Public Health Houghton Branch Scrapbook
MS-1016 — Edyvean, Alexander, and Hadwick Families Papers
MS-1017 — Snowdon Family Photographs
MS-1018 — Copper Harbor Store Ledgers
MS-1019 — Women's Fraternal Societies Records
MS-1020 — Copper Country Veterans Research Papers
MS-1021 — Arcadian Mine Collection
MS-1022 — Jacobsville History Project Collection
MS-1023 — Ford Sawmill Restoration Collection
MS-1024 — Camp Blueberry Knoll Collection
MS-1027 — Work Projects Administration Records
MS-1028 — Wayrynen Family Photograph Collection
MS-1029 — Erkkila Family Photograph Collection
MS-1030 — Rotary Club of Hancock Records
MS-1031 — Records of Houghton County Soldiers and Sailors in Service in the Great War
MS-1032 — National Bank of Houghton Pay Stubs
MS-1033 — Keith Baldwin Photograph Collection
MS-1034 — Copper Range Railroad Company Distribution of Payroll Records
MS-1035 — Hancock Fire Photograph Collection
MS-1036 — John Erm Collection on Camp Sidnaw
MS-1037 — Dan Behnke Photograph Collection
MS-1038 — Collection of Quincy Mining Company Billing Invoices and Receipts
MS-1039 — Houghton County Prisoner Records
MS-1040 — Records of the International Frisbee and USA Guts Hall of Fame
MS-1041 — Leo Baillargeon Diplomas and Rev. Napoleon J. Raymond Photograph
MS1043 — Arnold Alanen Slide Collection
MS-1044 — Aura Hospital Auxiliary Records
MTU-001 — Michigan Technological University Senate Records
MTU-003 — William Hockings Research Papers
MTU-008 — North Central Association (NCA) 1998 Accreditation
MTU-009 — Alpha Phi Omega (APO) Collection
MTU-010 — Lode Binding Collection
MTU-012 — Michigan Technological University Mining Engineering Photograph Collection
MTU-013 — John MacInnes Papers
MTU-014 — Ernest Townsend Collection
MTU-015 — Trailertown Collection
MTU-016 — Copper Fittings Research Project Patent Records
MTU-017 — Michigan Technological University Marketing and Communications Records
MTU-021 — Grover C. Dillman Papers
MTU-022 — Ecological Studies of Wolves on Isle Royale
MTU-027 — Michigan Technological University Commencement Collection
MTU-028 — Tau Beta Pi Association Records
MTU-030 — Michigan Technological University Institute on Wood Research Collection
MTU-031 — Conscious Stomach Records
MTU-032 — Michigan Technological University Blue Key Honor Society Records
MTU-033 — WGGL FM 91.1 Collection
MTU-036 — Michigan Technological University Student Papers
MTU-041 — Michigan Technological University Husky Amateur Radio Club Collection
MTU-044 — Women's Heritage Collection
MTU-046 — Michigan Technological University Department of Nursing Collection
MTU-102 — Michigan Technological University Presidential Commission for Women Records
MTU-104 — Michigan Technological University Faculty Publications
MTU-109 — George P. Schubert Papers
MTU-121— Michigan College of Mines Student Records
MTU-137 — Michigan College of Mines Micomi Club Collection
MTU-164— Michigan Technological University Building Records
MTU-166 — Michigan College of Mines Administrative Records
MTU-167 — Michigan Technological University Winter Carnival Collection
MTU-171 — Michigan Technological University Computer Executive Committee Records
MTU-176 — Michigan Technological University Proposed Degree Documentation
MTU-178 — Robert H. Boehmer Photograph Collection
MTU-180 — Michigan Technological University Veterans Club Records
MTU-196 — Michigan Technological University Archives' Postcard Collection
MTU-202 — Michigan Technological University Human Relations Week Records
MTU-204 — Michigan Technological University Hockey Photograph Collection
MTU-212 — Larry Lankton Collection
MTU-213 — Michigan Technological University Generations of Discovery Records
MTU-214 — Lindo Bartelli Diplomas and Yearbook
MTU-215 — Kenneth Larm Photograph Collection
MTU-216 — MTU Hockey Collection
MTU-217 — Michigan Technological University Kaleidoscope Records
MTU-218 — Marsha E. Penti Research Collection
MTU-219 — Michigan College of Mining and Technology Winter Carnival Scrapbook
MTU-220 — Michigan Technological University Winter Carnival Photograph Collection
MTU-221 — Michigan Technological University Phi Kappa Phi Records
MTU-222 — Michigan Technological University Student Photography Collection
MTU-223 — Collection on John Scott
MTU-224 — House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education Report
MTU-225 — Department of Mining Engineering Student Collection
MTU-227 — Kristine Antcliff Memoirs
MTU-228 — The Fire at Theta Tau - Beta Chapter, Michigan Tech, Houghton, Michigan, April 5, 1962
MTU-229 — Winter Carnival Sculpture Photograph Collection
MTU-230 — Environmental Policy Course Term Papers
MTU-231 — Redridge Dam Monument Collection
MTU-232 — Michigan Technological University Alumni Records
MTU-234 — Dennis Walikainen Photograph Collection
MTU-235 — Michigan College of Mining and Technology Diploma Collection
MTU-236 — Michigan Technological University Bocce Club Collection
MTU-237 — Michigan Technological University Graduate Faculty Council Meeting Minutes
MTU-239 — Dana L. Richter Papers
MTU-240 — Charles Matson Notecard Collection
MTU-241 — Michigan Technological University Computer Punch Cards
MTU-242 — Michigan Technological University Center for Diversity and Inclusion Records
MTU-243 — Michigan College of Mining and Technology Sault Ste. Marie Branch Student Enrollment Lists
MTU-245 — Gloria B. Melton Papers
MTU-247 — Elizabeth Barzditis Lewis Collection
MTU-250 — Wadsworth Hall Construction Photographs
MTU-251 — Michigan Technological University Collection on 2003 Orientation Week Theme
MTU-252 — Literature of the Upper Peninsula course audio recordings
MTU-253 — Michigan Technological University Copper Country Oral History Collection
MTU-254 — Michigan Technological University Archives' Athletics Publications Collection
MTU-255 — Michigan Technological University Film Board Records
MTU-256 — Sherman Gym / Walker Arts and Humanities Building Renovation Records
MTU-257 — Michigan College of Mining and Technology Negatives