Category: About the Archives

This category is used for posts that talk more about the people, services, and operation of the archives as a department.

New Location for the Archives’ Dissertations, Master’s Theses and Master’s Reports

  The Michigan Tech Archive’s has moved all of its university dissertations, master’s theses and master’s reports to one centralized location on the Garden Level of the Van Pelt and Opie Library, an area formerly occupied by government documents. For patrons, this means that the historic texts are no longer held in an off site . . .

2015 Travel Grant Program Call for Proposals

  The Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections is currently accepting applications for its annual Travel Grant Program, which brings outside scholars and researchers to Michigan Technological University to work with the Archives’ collections. Financial support for the Travel Grant Program is provided by the Friends of the Van Pelt Library, a . . .

Michigan Tech Archives in the News

  We are happy to share that the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections made it onto the Michigan Tech News website this morning. Senior Archivist Lindsay Hiltunen recently gave an interview and behind-the-scenes tour in the archives for Michigan Tech student writer Monica Lester. The interview was filled with questions about . . .

Copper, Cords and Cabbage: The Story of the Mineral Range Railroad’s South Range Branch

  Please join us for visiting scholar Mark Worrall at 4:00 pm on Monday, November 10 in the East Reading Room of the Van Pelt and Opie Library on the Michigan Technological University campus. This event is free of charge and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. In this presentation, Worrall will explore . . .

Passengers, Packages, and Copper: The Steamer Pewabic, Its Archaeology, Management, Material Culture and the Development of the Keweenaw Peninsula

  Please join us for visiting scholar Philip Hartmeyer at 4:00 pm on Thursday, November 6 in the East Reading Room of the Van Pelt and Opie Library on the Michigan Technological University campus. This event is free of charge and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. In this presentation, Hartmeyer will examine . . .