Roy Drier Collection, 1848-1968.

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Roy Drier Collection, 1848-1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758490893

Papers, 1912-1968, of Roy W. Drier, a native of Calumet, Michigan and alumnus and professor of the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Contains items pertaining to Michigan's Copper Country, including record books, correspondence, deeds, maps, family histories, lighthouse journals, and company records. Also includes work done under appropriate duty orders for the U.S. Navy on x-ray investigations and a scrapbook with clippings, letters, invitations and programs as well as Drier's doctoral hood and graduation cap, the first issued by the Michigan College of Mining and Technology.

22.01 cubic feet; 77 boxes.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 8145244

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

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