People, Place and Time: Michigan’s Copper Country Through the Lens of J.W. Nara, a traveling exhibit created by the Michigan Tech Archives, is currently hosted at the Calumet Public School Library, located within Calumet High School. The exhibit explores the life and times of Calumet photographer J.W. Nara and is open to the public during the library’s regular . . .
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In April, Julie Blair and Beth Russell from the Michigan Tech Archives attended the Society of Indiana Archivists annual meeting in Indianapolis. The two presented a session about the current grant the Archives is working on, an NHPRC funded “basic” grant to improve collection description and access, especially pertinent for a geographically remote location like . . .
A new exhibit of photographs in the reading room of the Michigan Tech Archives highlights the many products and types of produce which have been “Made in the Copper Country.” Some photographs capture expected items from the region’s historic industrial base, like the thousands of copper ingots lining the Houghton shoreline and copper wire produced at a . . .
SAA Encoded Archival Description workshop in Michigan’s beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula Join us during the peak of the summer in beautiful Houghton, Michigan. The Michigan Technological University Archives and the Society of American Archivists invite you to learn EAD. Develop new skills or refresh your knowledge while enjoying a stay in the Upper Peninsula, called “the . . .
Warmer weather has more people out and about looking for places to visit. Why not plan a stop in Houghton and learn a bit more about Copper Country history? “People, Place and Time: Michigan’s Copper Country Through the Lens of J.W. Nara,” a traveling exhibit created by the Michigan Tech Archives, has moved to the . . .
The Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections seeks a graduate student intern for Summer 2011. As a regional history manuscript collection, the Michigan Tech Archives collects material which documents the history of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan’s Western Upper Peninsula, including its historic copper mining industry. The intern selected will receive substantive . . .
A number of students from the Western Upper Peninsula were selected as national finalists at the Michigan History Day state finals held April 30 at Grand Valley State University. These students participated in the local District 1 competition held February 26 in Houghton, which was sponsored by the Michigan Tech Social Sciences Department, the Michigan Tech Archives . . .
The Michigan Tech Archives continues to serve as coordinating agency for the Northland Historical Consortium, and is pleased to announce that the Consortium and the Heritage Sites of Keweenaw National Historical Park will convene a joint spring 2011 meeting on Saturday, May 14, 2011, in Houghton. The meeting will feature a day-long workshop entitled “Interpretation . . .
The Michigan Tech Archives invites students, faculty and staff to join us for a Lunch and Learn on March 22, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Memorial Union Ballroom B-3. Visiting scholar and Archives Travel Grant recipient Ibram H. Rogers will give a talk on “The Black Campus Movement and the Racial Reformation of . . .
The library at Houghton High School is the latest venue to host “People, Place and Time: Michigan’s Copper Country Through the Lens of J.W. Nara,” a traveling exhibit created by the Michigan Tech Archives. The exhibit explores the life and times of Calumet photographer J.W. Nara and is open to the public through March 18, 2011 during . . .