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MTU Homecoming

Manners and Customs, Musical Groups, Woody Plants, Trees Queen and Court [The Homecoming Queen and her court pose at the football field. The pep band is in the background.]

Scanned: July 15, 2008


MTU Homecoming

Manners and Customs, Transportation, Automotive, Persons Homecoming Parade [A van loaded with happy students is shown.]

Scanned: July 15, 2008


MTU Homecoming

Manners and Customs, Musical Groups, Persons Homecoming Parade [Students dressed in Hobo attire and playing musical instruments march in the parade.]

Scanned: July 15, 2008


Snow thermometer

Societies, Sign and Signboards, Persons Michigan Archival Association meeting, MTU, September 28-29, 1987 [Group of people posing in front of the "snow thermometer," an outdoor, billboard-type construction located north of Mohawk which records information about snowfall in Keweenaw County, Michigan.]

Scanned: July 22, 2008


Snow thermometer

Seasons, Winter, Sign and Signboards, [The "snow thermometer," an outdoor, billboard-type construction located north of Mohawk which records information about snowfall in Keweenaw County, Michigan. Sign has markings like a thermometer that demark total snowfall in feet, with special indicators given for low (81.3 inches during winter 1930-31), high record (390.4 inches in winter 1978-79) , and a 72-year average (assumed to be for the period 1910-1982) (178.3 inches). Photograph is taken during the winter with snow on the ground.]

Scanned: July 22, 2008


Railroads - Mineral Range

Transportation, Railroads, Persons, Railroad Companies Mineral Range Railroad Engine #4 [Some of the railroad employees pose with engine #4.]

Scanned: July 30, 2008


MTU Buildings - Wadsworth Hall

Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Buildings, Dwellings, Woody Plants, Trees Wadsworth Hall (exterior). [View of the building from across the street.]

Scanned: July 31, 2008


Road Construction

Transportation, Roads, Transportation, Automotive, Woody Plants, Trees Lakeshore Drive (now state highway M-26) near Agate Harbor in Keweenaw County. Getting ready to pull stumps near 'High Bridge," where Glazon Creek empties into North Bay at Agate Harbor. [Trees have been cleared for a road, with stumps remaining.]

Scanned: August 18, 2008


Road Construction

Transportation, Roads, Transportation, Automotive, Woody Plants, Trees Lakeshore Drive (now state highway M-26) just west of Copper Harbor in Keweenaw County [Group of men working with tracked vehicles at road construction site].

Scanned: August 18, 2008


Road Construction

Transportation, Roads, Transportation, Automotive, Woody Plants, Trees Lakeshore Drive (now state highway M-26) just west of Copper Harbor in Keweenaw County [Group of men walking along the nearly-completed road bed].

Scanned: August 18, 2008