Category: Collections

This category will include posts about the holdings of the Michigan Tech Archives: manuscript materials, photographs, maps, books, and other physical items held by the department.

Winter Carnival Pictorials Available for Viewing on Michigan Tech’s Digital Commons Page

For its semicentennial, the 1965 edition of the annual Michigan Tech Lode Pictorial has been digitized and uploaded to Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech. This pictorial joins a collection of several others hosted on the digital repository, including editions from 1964, 1974 and 1989.     Follow this link to flip-through or download any of . . .

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 . . .

Baraga Resident Donates World War I Era Collection

The Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections was pleased to welcome a new collection this week thanks to a local resident. Ellen Raymond, a 94 year old from Baraga, visited the archives on Tuesday, July 8 and donated a family collection of World War I era documents and ephemera. After finding a . . .

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 . . .