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.

Symposium Travel Grant Awards Announced

The University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections has selected nine recipients for the 2014 Symposium Travel Award. These grant recipients will be among the many scholars and researchers participating in “Retrospection & Respect: Michigan’s 1913-1914 Mining/Labor Strike Symposium,” to be held in Houghton, Michigan, April 11-12, 2014, on the occasion of the centennial of . . .

Symposium Speakers Announced

The  speakers for “Retrospection & Respect: The 1913-1914 Mining/Labor Strike Symposium of 2014” have been announced!  FinnForum X speakers will be added soon. Full conference registration is $30.00 and includes Friday reception and Saturday sessions for both the 1913-1914 Mining/ Labor Strike and FinnForum X concurrent sessions, and includes breakfast and lunch. Keynote dinner reservations . . .

The Risks of Radicalism

The following letter, discovered in MS-080, Copper Range Company Records, shows the close connection between the copper mining companies and local government. Unfortunately, the I. W. W. book was not included with the letter. The context for this letter (given below), derived from various sources in the Michigan Tech Archives, demonstrates the value of having . . .

Call for Proposals Extended

Retrospection & Respect: Michigan’s 1913-14 Copper Miners’ Strike A symposium to be held April 11-13, 2014 on the campus of Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA The Michigan Tech Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections of the Van Pelt Library of Michigan Technological University announces a symposium to be held in Houghton, Michigan, April 11-13, . . .

Film premiere of Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913

The Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections presents the premiere of Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913, a documentary film by Emmy award-winning producer Jonathan Silvers & Saybrook Productions. The film will be shown Friday, Dec. 6, 2013, at 7 PM at the Calumet Theatre. Admission is free. Donations are . . .