Rock Maple Ridge Workers Association records 1873 - 1983

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Rock Maple Ridge Workers Association records 1873 - 1983

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This collection contains financial records, correspondence, meeting minutes, by-laws, constitution, collected publications (including books, pamphlets, plays, and periodicals), socialist party propaganda and information, and miscellaneous materials of the Rock Maple Ridge Workers Association, a radical Finnish Socialist labor hall which was established in Rock, Michigan in 1912. The materials cover years 1873-1983 and are mostly in Finnish.

13.0 boxes 13 gray, metal edge boxes

fin,

eng,

Olson Library, Northern Michigan University, Lydia M. Olson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8115084

Olson Library, Northern Michigan University, Lydia M. Olson Library

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