John Bigando interview, 1973 July 7.

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John Bigando interview, 1973 July 7.

Topics include moving to Calumet; starting to play the trumpet; working in the mines; a mine accident; playing with the Calumet & Hecla Band; and Suomi College music director Martti Nisonen.

Transcript : 19 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6902204

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Calumet & Hecla Band

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Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company

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The Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, which traces its founding to 1864, was the most successful corporation to have mined native copper on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through nearly a century of mining activity, the company produced in excess of 4.5 billion pounds of refined copper and issued over $200 million in shareholder dividends. Unlike many of its competitors along the Keweenaw Peninsula, Calumet and Hecla successfully expanded its operations over several separate mineral bo...

Anderson, Wallace, 1896-1979

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Bigando, John, 1885-1978

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Band musician, of Calumet, Mich. From the description of John Bigando interview, 1973 July 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 156875830 From the description of John Bigando interview, 1973 July 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 156875392 ...

Nisonen, Martti, 1891-1946

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Suomi College

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The Finnish Collection consists of 100 reels of microfilm concerning Finnish-American Churches, Labor Societies, Temperance Organizations, and other materials from the United States and Canada. The contents were filmed at the Suomi College (now Finlandia University) Historical Archive and are the result of a joint project between the Bentley Library, Suomi College (now Finlandia University), and the University of Turku, Finland, coordinated in 1974-75. Much of the fieldwork and cataloging of the...