Topics include being the oldest living alumnus of Michigan Tech; copper mines and mining; the 1913 strike; ethnic relations; medical care for miners; geological work; World War I and the mining industry; the Depression; saloons; and tourism in the…
Also present during the interview is Matt Waisanen--1894-1976 and Arthur Waisanen--1900-1978. Topics include various aspects of life in Pelkie, Mich. Persons represented include Urho Erikainen, Evert Larson, and William Pelkie.
Topics include community life in Calumet. Includes references to ethnic groups; copper mines and mining; 1913 copper miners' strike; Fourth of July; summer and winter pastimes; churches; schools; and hospitals.
Interview also includes Walter S. Holmlund--1908-1993 and Minnie Marsi. Interview relates chiefly to various aspects of life in Jacobsville,Michigan, a sandstone quarrying location at the mouth of the Copper Country's Portage Lake Entry.
Topics include coming to the U.S. from Italy; getting a job in the mines; boardinghouses; medical care and physicians; playing with the Calumet & Hecla Band; Allouez; and the visit of Theodore Roosevelt to Copper Country.
Topics include attending school; graduating (1930) from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis.; her work as a librarian in Calumet, first with the Calumet and Hecla library and later with the Calumet Public Library 1944-1966); the impact of World War…
Topics include his father clearing land and building a home; starting a farm; working in lumber camps and mines; the 1913 strike; ethnic conflicts; religious life; keeping country roads open in the winter; a home remedy; moving to Pontiac in 1922;…
Collective biography of Arvid Wiitaniemi, 1871-1961, compiled chiefly by various family members. Topics include his birth in Finland in 1871; coming to the U.S. in 1887; his two marriages; family life; working in the sandstone quarry in Jacobsville;…
Topics include his father's leaving Finland, working at the mine in Ishpeming, family life and boarders, beginning his engineering career, and teaching at Suomi College.
Topics include his parents' emigration from Finland; lumber camps; copper mines and mining; school in Calumet, Mich.; the 1913 strike; Western Federation of Miners; Socialists in the mines; Finnish newspapers; World War I; farm life in Oskar, Mich.;…