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Shipwrecks Mining: Copper Gold Silver Iron Railroads Education Native Americans Agriculture Sports Lumbering Local Organizations Environment Military Conflicts Upper Peninsula Towns Ethnic Groups Lake Superior Fur Trade Historic Buildings |
J.M. Longyear Research Library ResourcesLIBRARY/ ARCHIVES
The collection of the library and archives is very diverse and contains resources for everyone. BOOKS The core of the collection is over 16,000 titles from rare 18th century books to recent publications about the history of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the northern Great Lakes region. The library is known for its excellent collection of Great Lakes Indian history, the ethnic, social and economic history of the region and books on the histories of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Canada. MANUSCRIPTS Diaries, correspondence, unpublished research papers and interview transcripts are found in the manuscript collection. Examples of resources are: A four-volume history of the 19th Century of Negaunee, Mi., Clarence Thoren A history of Marquette County highway system, Kenneth Ingalls Sawyer Personal reminiscences and letters of Peter White, Philo Everett, Amos Harlow, John M. Longyear, Charles Harvey, James Jopling, Ray Brotherton, William Armstrong, to name of few. SERIALS The library subscribes to regional periodicals such as Michigan History, Lake Superior Magazine, Inland Seas, Mazina’igen, Win Awen Nisototung, The Finnish American Reporter, Michigan Historical Review. The serials collection has complete sets of the Minnesota Historical Society Collections, the Wisconsin Historical Collections and the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections. The newspaper holdings include hardcopy and microfilm of county newspapers Marquette- Mining Journal, Weekly and Daily Ishpeming- Iron Ore Negaunee- Iron Herald City and county directories are available from years 1873 thru 2005 PAMPHLET FILES These newspaper and pamphlet files are accessed by subject and geography. A subject index to Mining Journal articles is available from the1860’s-1940. Newspaper articles were clipped and filed from 1940 to the present, documenting local current events. SCRAPBOOKS Over 50 scrapbooks are compiled on subjects such as hockey, health and welfare, arts and theater, travel journals, politics, iron mining, and communities. Personal scrapbooks include those compiled by Peter White, Frederick Read, John Longyear, Elba Morse, and John Voelker ARCHIVES The Archives is known for its unique collection of local organization records, business records, government documents, and collections of personal papers SPECIFIC COLLECTIONS William Austin Burt papers Pendill-Barbeau papers Watson/Rankin family correspondence John M. Longyear business records Wes Perron railroad collection Finnish collection David McClintock WWII correspondence Norene Roberts Dead River and Grand Island collections Marquette County veteran interviews The Archives General Index provides details on specific collections More details on: Genealogy Homes & Properties Photographs & Maps |