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Several stops can lead to the same repository. Maps show selected verified locations, not every guide stop or every community represented in the records. Use each stop’s access instructions, including for online and out-of-county collections. Check access before traveling.
Email copper@mtu.edu with the collection number. Garden Level reading-room visits require appointments, currently Monday–Thursday, 1–5 p.m.
Repository information · Map position sourceCall 906-296-4121 for an appointment. The current research room is in the former Congregational Church at the southeast corner of First Street and N Avenue, Lake Linden, not the museum building. Published research hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9 a.m.–noon. Map marker identifies the former church, not the museum campus.
Repository information · Map position sourceStart with the online catalog. The archivist confirmed on November 3, 2026 that the temporary closure has been lifted. Research is by advance appointment only; no walk-ins. Email joanna.chopp@finlandiafoundation.org before visiting 435 Quincy Street, Hancock (437 is the mailing address). Remote research of up to one hour is free; additional research incurs fees. Copying and shipping fees apply to requested materials.
Repository information · Map position sourceCounty outlines: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 cartographic boundaries . Selected major roads: 2024 TIGER/Line primary and secondary roads . Public repository addresses checked against the sources above, with approximate Census geocoder positions. Unmatched addresses and out-of-county repositories are listed in the key rather than assigned a guessed position. Markers identify contact locations, not collection coverage. Historical boundaries, township lines and current traffic conditions are not shown. Prepared November 1, 2026.
MS-796 holds four daily attendance registers covering 1871–1878. The entries record pupils’ names, ages and attendance.
These are selected surviving registers, not proof every child attended or every school is represented. Request MS-796, box 1; the finding aid lists four folders.
MS-002 includes workforce and company housing records. Its inventory separately lists employee-card groups dated 1870–1894, 1878–1914, 1907–1970 and 1915–1936. The Keweenaw Time Traveler project links nearly 40,000 digitized cards with other historical data; cards may name relatives and birthplaces.
Overlapping card groups do not mean a complete workforce census, and the digital subset is not the whole collection. The corporate span 1855–1973 is not the date range of every employee file.
MS-090 covers 1957–1977, including board and committee minutes, county planning and economic-development material, financial records and correspondence.
This collection is selected county-administration material, not a complete run of all county proceedings or vital records. Identify the committee and issue before requesting folders.
The research room holds maps, volumes of the Daily Mining Gazette, Portage Lake Gazette and Calumet News, plus some Polk directories the society says are absent from other databases.
Ask for exact years and issues: the site gives no complete holdings list. Seasonal museum hours differ from research-room access.
The archive provides an online catalog and collection finding aids. Its current digitization project includes Suomi Synod minutes and congregational correspondence, early Suomi College yearbooks, student newspapers, photographs and course catalogs.
The project is a small selection, not evidence the full archive is online. Do not infer an individual’s enrollment, congregation or ethnicity from the existence of a collection.
Give the repository the locality, year, collection and specific question. Ask about the relevant volume or folder, gaps, access restrictions and copying costs. Save the citation and record what you searched, including searches with no result.
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Use these dated holdings to choose a next search. This is a selection of cataloged collections, not a complete inventory of Houghton County records.
A range is a lead, not a guarantee. Bars show the dates stated by the cited catalog or inventory. They do not establish uninterrupted coverage, complete reporting or online image access. Unmarked years mean not represented in this selection, not that records were destroyed. Indexes and abstracts still need to be followed to the underlying record.
Listed years: 1871–1878.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: Four listed folders; not all township school records.
Listed years: 1870–1894.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: Box 364; selected card group, not all employees.
Listed years: 1878–1914.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: Box 365; overlaps other card groups.
Listed years: 1907–1970.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: Boxes 366–386; verify worker and individual dates.
Listed years: 1915–1936.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: Box 387 folders 2–4; selected group.
Listed years: 1957–1977.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: Collection-wide span, not complete proceedings.
Confirm the historical jurisdiction as well as the date. A record may be held outside today’s county, and an inventory’s ending year does not mean recordkeeping stopped.
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