Barbara Williams interview, undated.

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Barbara Williams interview, undated.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/176629898

Topics include attending school; graduating (1930) from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis.; her work as a librarian in Calumet, first with the Calumet and Hecla library and later with the Calumet Public Library (1944-1966); the impact of World War I on the Copper Country; the Depression; copper mines and mining; ethnic groups and relations; amusements; the Calumet Theatre; Calumet and Hecla Band; the Fortnightly Club; and her work with the Episcopal Church.

Transcript : 23 p.

Finnish American Historical Archive and Museum

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Williams, Barbara, 1909-1979

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Librarian in Calumet, Mich. From the description of Barbara Williams interview, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 176629898 Barbara Williams was born in Calumet, Michigan on May 2, 1909. She attended the local schools, graduating in 1926, and followed on to attend Lawrence University in Wisconsin, where she graduated with a degree in English in 1930. Returning to her hometown she worked as an assistant librarian for the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Mining Company, a ...

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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...

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