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Michigan College of Mining & Technology |
Sign and Signboards, Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, |
Boys will be boys! Harvard has had her "goldfish swallowers," but Tech men, being of a more rugged type, go in for sign painting as is evidenced by the addition of "Under New Management" which makes Dr. Van Pelt's taking over the "Prexy's" job at Michigan Tech official. [Students have added new information to one of the MTU signs on campus.] Scanned: April 9, 2009 |
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Potato Queen Candidates |
Contests, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Persons |
Shirley Bohjanen, Tapiola; Eleanor Frusti, Trap Rock; Marian Jarvi, Chassell; Judy Lantto, Houghton County. [The girls pose in their gowns.] Scanned: October 11, 2007 |
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Potato |
Agriculture, , |
[A potato with a face] Scanned: October 11, 2007 |
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County Hospital |
Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Hospitals, Food Service, |
The pantry of the County Hospital is a tight little nook where only one baker can work without shoving and bumping into one another. Floor space of 6 by 8 feet is very small in a hospital that has 112 patients. This limitation does not permit efficient operation of kitchen and pantry. It is hoped that the room can be enlarged and renovated for greater use of hired help. [Photo of the small food prep area of the hospital.] Scanned: April 7, 2009 |
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St. Joseph Mission Home - Assinins |
Buildings, Dwellings, , |
The St. Joseph Mission Home at Assinins stands quiet and forlorn. But a slight distance north and west of Baraga, the oldtime and well revered Bishop Baraga settlement seems destined to no longer lodge the little Chippewa "waifs" as it did long before the century's turn. Information as to the ultimate disposition of the building built in part through the instrumentation of the late beloved Msgr. A. J. Rezek of Houghton, is expected within a month. The Capuchin order of Wisconsin is still interested in the Keweenaw Bay site and has not as yet relinquished is option. [Exterior view of the building.] Scanned: April 7, 2009 |
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Buildings - Taverns |
Buildings, Public Buildings, Industries, Service Industries, Hospitality Industry, Taverns (inns), |
Fascinating is this former Giles building on the road between Lake Linden and the Traverse Bay area. A structure well known by Torch Lake residents, it is now long unused. Once a tavern, it has also catered to large hunting parties who used its facilities for both rooming and boarding. It is the largest such structure in the area and stands out in the flat agricultural country. [Exterior view of the building minus windows.] Scanned: April 9, 2009 |
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Airports - Houghton County Memorial |
Persons, Transportation, Air Travel, Airports, Airport Buildings |
North Central Airlines has four regular employees at the dispatcher's office at Memorial Airport. Two are on duty at any one time. Here are Nathan Ruonavaara, dispatcher and Roger Maki, station manager, sending and receiving messages from a plane in flight. Maki, right, is transmitting a bulletin over the teletype. [Image of the two men working in close quarters.] Scanned: April 3, 2009 |
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Airports - Houghton County Memorial |
Persons, Transportation, Air Travel, Airports, Airport Buildings |
Houghton County Memorial Airport and North Central Airlines maintenance departments have offices in this building. They are two heterogeneous operations maintained by two separate organizations. The latter serves the North Central Airlines as ticket agent and dispatcher and the former maintains operations of the airport for airplanes that land there whether they be military, commercial or civilian. [Image of interior of the building showing the ticket counter.] Scanned: April 6, 2009 |
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Houghton County Memorial Airport |
Transportation, Air Travel, Buildings, Transportation Buildings, Airport Buildings, Transportation, Automotive |
Memorial Airport has five distinctively separate operations on its field. They are the Houghton County Maintenace Department, with Carl F. Winkler, general manager; the North Central Airlines Dispatching Station; the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Snow, Ice and Perma Frost Research Establishment; the Research and Development Command of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps and the Civil Aeronautics Administration Station. [Photo of some of the buildings that existed at the airport in the 1950's.] Scanned: April 3, 2009 |
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Sawmills - Vulcan Corporation |
Manufacturing Process, Mills and Millwork, Saw Mills, Buildings, Woody Plants, Trees |
Work in the new sawmill of the Vulcan Corporation got underway yesterday as the firm began the first day of sawing since fire destroyed its former mill on Jan. 25, 1956. Virtually all of the timber to be sawed is going into the manufacture of furniture and allied items. Some 80 men are employed on two shifts in the mill and about 100 are working in the woods. Much more efficient than the last milll, the present structure features more modernism and all new machinery. The photo shows the mill and a portion of the large yard. Donken has also been known as "Beaver." The name is taken from the first three letters of the first name of Donald and Kenneth Case. [View of the sawmill yard with stacks and stacks of lumber.] Scanned: April 3, 2009 |