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Michigan

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Agriculture (13)
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Copper Country (27)
Copper mining (18)
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Monroe County (294)
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Resources
View Resource Aileen Jacobson Oral History Interview

Topics include family history; nursing school and nursing; the life of Finnish immigrants; different nationalities in schools and ethnic relations; life in Marquette, Mich.; and saunas.
View Resource Annie Broan Aldrich Oral History Interview

Topics include family history; the reasons her parents came to Copper Country; her father's work as a mine captain; celebrating Christmas and the Fourth of July; school; marriage to physician Addison Aldrich in 1907; life as an physician's wife; church life; social life; flu and typhoid epidemics; ethnic relations; a strike; temperance movement; suffrage; the WPA; Italian American community...
View Resource Hellen Collar Oral History