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Updated November 20, 2009 BOX NUMBER ONE: Michigan Historical C:\ARCH\MIHISTCT MICHIGAN HISTORICAL COLLECTION (July 21, 2005) - Updated November 20, 2009 BOX NUMBER ONE: Michigan Historical Collection consists of histories of counties and cities. Material will be listed first by title and second by publishers or authors. Courageous Women of Alger County. Munising Business and Professional Women's Club. Historical Highlights of Alger County Michigan. Alger County Historical Society. They Came To Laughing Whitefish (Alger County). Fred Lindquist. Baraga County Historical Book 1972-1973. The Baraga County Historical Society, Inc. Baragaland Bicentennial 1776--1976 (Baraga County). The Lumberjacks. Bay County Centennial 1857-1957. Bay County Historical Society. Gerrish Township Centennial 1880-1980. Centennial Committee. Huron County "Playground of the Thumb". The East Michigan Tourist Association. They Came to Iron County, Michigan. Iron County Bicentennial Committee. Rockhound Guide to Keweenaw County. Don H. Clarke. The Story of Lord River Township. Jean Peterson Brayak. A Brief History of The Tahquamenon Valley (Luce County and Newberry). The Luce County Historical Society. Historical Album and Program Book (Menominee County). Culbert Swan Productions Co. The Old Copper Culture People of Oconto County. The Oconto County Historical Society. The Kalamazoo Valley Newsletter, Winter Quarter 1977-1978 (Ontonagon County). The Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society. Oscoda County 1881. The AuSable River Valley Historical Society. BOX NUMBER TWO: Otsego County. Clear Water Land Roscommon County Centennial 1875-1975. Roscommon Historical Society. The Bicentennial History Of Saginaw County 1776-1976. William K. Mitchell. Saint Clair County Centennial and Home-Coming Celebration 1821- 1921. Saint Clair Historical Committee. Their Yesterdays: AuSable and Oscoda 1848-1948. Edna M. Otis. Bay City Centennial 1865-1965. The Bay City Centennial Association. Birch Run, It's History From Prehistoric Times To 1976. Delores Gibson. Caspian Golden Jubilee. The Caspian Golden Jubilee Committee. Chesaning Illustrated. The News, Chesaning, Michigan. The Story of Mining In Michigan's Upper Peninsula--Crystal Falls Iron Mine. Crystal Falls Iron Mine, Inc. The Tragedy of Crystal Lake with some sidelights. W. L. Case. A Brief History Of Detroit in the Golden Days of 1849. George B. Catlin. The History Of Eagle Harbor Michigan. Clarence J. Monette. The History Of Eagle River Michigan. Clarence J. Monette. Frankenmuth...a community of charm, tradition and growth. The Frankenmuth Historical Society. Grand Marais. Voyager Press. A Historic Path Through Downtown Iron Mountain. The Nominee Range Historical Foundation Museum. As Time Goes By (Iron River). Iron County Historical Museum Society. BOX NUMBER THREE: Trestles and Tracks--A History of Keweenaw Bay and Arnheim. Compiled by the Keweenaw Bay and Arnheim Extension Study Group. 100 Years Of History--L'Anse Village and Skanee Community Centennial. The Baraga County Historical Society. A History Of Lexington. Florence H. Walther. The Heritage of Livonia. The Livonia Historical Society. Lumberjack...Inside An Era In The Manistique, Michigan Region. William S. Crowe. Lumberjacks and River Pearls...Memories of Manistique. Jack Orr. Mineral Hills Golden Jubilee Historical Album. Maggie and Scotty Swan. Newberry In The Old Days. John Meyers. It Happened Here One Spring--A Centennial History of Port Crescent. June Nelson. A History Of Port Huron. George L. Smith. Rogers City Centennial History and Photo Album. The Rogers City Centennial Committee. Saginaw From Lumbering to Industrial Giant 1890-1973. Bruce W. Carlson. The Sault Canal through 100 Years (Sault Ste Marie). Dr. F. Clever Bald. History of Sebewaing. Herman G. Millerwise. History of the Sterling Area. Virginia Adams. History of the Sterling Area Second Generation. Virginia Adams. Tamarack Town--Mines-People-Places. Paul T. Steele. West Branch Area First One Hundred Years. Historical Committee. BOX NUMBER FOUR: Pamphlets, books etc... relating to Michigan History all will be kept in Michigan Archives ( Collection) As of 1-3-1989. Bank Notes, 90th anniversary Second National Bank, Saginaw, (1) Michigan, November, 1961. Banks Saginaw Second National Barlett, I> H> (2) Whitetails presenting Michigan's deer problem. Bulletin of the game Division, October, 1938. Deer Bay County Home Builders Association, Inc. 1986., Directory & (3) Buyers guide. Bay County Construction Beeson, Lewis (4) This is Michigan, a sketch of these times and times gone by. Michigan Bernhardt, Debra (5) Black Rock and Roses: A play of Iron County. Fiction Plays Iron County Boyum, Burton H. (6) Saga of Iron Mining in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Iron Upper Peninsula Central Foundry, Leading the way...A history of the Division. (7) Central Foundry Saginaw General Motors Clarke, Don H. (8) Copper Mines of Keweenaw, No.1. United States Mineral Agency. Mining Keweenaw Copper Harbor Copper (9) Copper Mines of Keweenaw, No.2. Starr Copper Company (10) Copper Mines of Keweenaw, No.3. Clark Mining Company (11) Copper Mines of Keweenaw, No.4. Lake Superior and Phoenix Mining Copanies (12) Copper Mines of Keweenaw, No.5. Pittsburgh and Boston Copper Harbor Mining Company (13) Copper Mines of Keweenaw, No.6. Copper Falls Mining Company (14) Copper Mines of Keweenaw, No.7. Central Mining Company (15) Copper Mines of Keweenaw, No.8. Eagle Harbor Mining Company (16) Copper Mines of Keweenaw, No.9. Northwest Copper Mining Association Clarke, Don H. (17) Rocks and Minerals of Lower Michigan. Rocks Minerals Lower Michigan Cole, Albert E. (18) Great Black Wolves and other Stories in the Ontonagon County. Ontonagon County Fiction Directory of Senate and House of Representatives, State of (19) Michigan, May 1981. Directory Government Dutton, Joseph (20) Poem of the Upper Peninsula and Other Verse. 1932. Poetry Upper Peninsula Father of Waters: An American Cantata for mixed voices. 1928. (21) Music Plays Fine, Sidney (22) Frank Murphy in World War I. Murphy, Frank Florey, Virginia (23) Boundaries of Eden. Midland Frimodig, Mac (24) Fort Wilkins Story, Fort Wilkins State Park, 1985. Upper Peninsula Fort Wilkins State Parks Gauthier, Doris A. (25) Alcona - The Lake Pioneers. 1981. Alcona County Ships Historic Legend of the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior, 1971 (26) reprint. Upper Peninsula Pictured Rocks Lake Superior Huber, John Parker (27) Toward Camelot: The admission of Women to the University of Michigan. Women University of Michigan Education BOX NUMBER FIVE: James, Clements Airport, Bay City, Michigan, 1986. Airports Bay (28) City James Clements Kelley, Robert W. (29) Guide to Michigan Fossils. Department of Conservation. Fossils Little Journeys: White Star Refining Company. Tourism White (30) Star Refining Company McCoy, Raymond (31) Massacre of Old Fort Mackinac. 1956. Fort Michilimackinac Mattson, Edward H. (32) Role of the Auto Mechanic In Early History of Auto, 1984. Automobile May, George S. (33) History along Michigan's Highways: A report on Michigan's new state historical marking program, 1957. Highways Tourism Michigan: A short history and description of the Wolverine State, (34) 1967. Michigan Michigan in Books. Michigan Department of Education. Winter (35) 1977. Foundations Books Michigan's Historic Attractions. 1973. Highways (36) Midland Log, Centennial Farms. May 1985. Midland Farming Farms (37) Moore, Sherman (38) Crustal Movement in the Great Lakes area. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, July, 1948. Great Lakes Geology 100 Years of Passenger Travel, the Mackinac Island Boat Book. (39) Ships Mackinac Island Arnold Transit Company Petersen, Eugene T. (40) France at Mackinac: A pictorial record of French life and culture 1715-1760. Fort Michilimackinac State Parks Picture Story of the Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest (41) suspension bridge. Bridges Mackinac Bridge Rauch, John G. (42) This Midwest Resort. Harbor Springs Sproul, Gloria C. (43) Mishe-Mokwa and the Legend of Sleeping Bear. Fiction Sleeping Bear Dune State Park Tales of the Menominee, 1972. Upper Peninsula (44) Thumb Region of Michigan as seen by the old AAA Traveler. (45) Automobile Club of Michigan, 1939. Thumb Lower Michigan Tourism Upper Peninsula of Michigan as seen by the Old AAA Traveler. (46) Automobile Club of Michigan, 1940. Upper Peninsula Tourism Vacation Days in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay Region, 1949. (47) Tourism Grand Traverse Bay Lower Peninsula West...Michigan's Flaming Forests, Color Tours, 1944. Tourism (48) Lower Peninsula Subject Index: Number relates to above numbers. Airports 28 Alcona County 25 Arnold Transit Company 39 Automobile 32 Banks 1 Bay City 28 Bay County 3 Books 35 Bridges 41 Central Foundry 7 Central Mining Company 14 Clark Mining Company 10 Clements, James 28 Copper 8-16 Copper Falls Mining Company 13 Copper Harbor 8 Construction 3 Deer 2 Directory 19 Eagle Harbor Mining Company 15 Education 27 Farming 37 Farms 37 Fiction 5, 18, 43 Fort Michilimackinac 31, 40 Fort Wilkins 24 Fossils 29 Foundations 35 General Motors 7 Geology 38 Government 19 Grand Traverse Bay 47 Great Lakes 38 Harbor Springs 42 Highways 33, 36 Iron 6, 8-16 Iron County 5 Keweenaw 8-16 Lake Superior 26 Lake Superior Mining Company 11 Lower Michigan 17, 45, 47-48 Mackinac Bridge 41 Mackinac island 39, 41 Michigan 4, 34 Midland 23, 37 Minerals 17 Mining 8-16 Murphy, Frank 22 Music 21 Northwest Copper Mining Association 16 Ontonagon County 18 Phoenix Mining Company 11 Pictured Rocks 26 Pittsburgh and Boston Copper Harbor Mining Company 12 Plays 5, 21 Poetry 20 Rocks 17 Saginaw 1, 7 Second National 1 Ships 25, 39 Sleeping Bear Dunes State Park 43 Star Copper Company 9 State Parks 24, 40 Thumb 45 Tourism 30, 33, 45-48 United States Mineral Agency 8 University of Michigan 27 Upper Peninsula 6, 20, 24, 26, 44, 46 White Star Refining Company 30 Women 27 .
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