Wilbert Salmi Collection, 1864-1953.

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Wilbert Salmi Collection, 1864-1953.

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Collection, 1864-1953, of Wilbert Salmi, a member of the Workers Alliance of America in the 1930s and resident of Hancock, Michigan. Includes blueprints with an index, many from Quincy Mining Company, Houghton High School commencement programs, invitations and announcements of social events, bylaws of the Lake Superior Knights of Pythias, declaration of intention for James Makan, and photographs of boats and places.

2.0 cubic feet; 1 oversize paige box.

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Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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SNAC Resource ID: 8083381

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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Knights of Pythias

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Founded in 1864, the Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization promoting friendship, charity, and benevolence. Charity work includes maintaining homes for the aged, camps for underprivileged children, higher education for deserving students, and medical care for the needy. From the description of Indianapolis, Ind. Lodges' Records, 1879-1935. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 44012513 ...

Quincy Mining Company

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The Quincy Mining Company was founded in 1846 to mine native copper deposits on property near Hancock, Michigan. During the course of the next one hundred and fifty years, the company produced 1.5 billion pounds of refined copper and issued $3 0 million in shareholder dividends. Its ability to consistently produce copper and stock dividends garnered it the nickname ₃Old Reliable₄ and spread its fame throughout the mining world. Before closing on May 6, 1967, the Quincy reclamation plant recovere...

Salmi, Wilbert.

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Member of the Workers Alliance of America in the 1930s. From the description of Wilbert Salmi papers, 1936. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32320930 Wilbert Salmi, his brother Willard and his father Walter were members of the Toivala Local of the Workers Alliance of America, "a national, non-partisan organization of unemployed and relief workers" (from Wilbert Salmi Collection, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State Univ...

Houghton High School (Houghton, Mich.)

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