Michigan Historical Commission
Contents: Today and yesterday : These times and times gone by / Carl R. Anderson -- Vacationland in the heart of the Great Lakes / Ferris E. Lewis -- Putting a nation on wheels / Joe L. Norris -- Our melting pot of nationalities / Lawrence S. Thompson -- Labor and social welfare / Sidney Glazer -- Better farming for better living / Joseph G. Duncan -- Changes in rural and urban living / Willis F. Dunbar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1949
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 917.74 THIDana, Juliette Starr
Contents: "Worth a Pilgrimage": July 15-July 20, New York State -- "The Mad Tumult": July 21-July 23, Niagara -- "Lost in the Distance": July 23-July 28, Lakes Erie and Huron, Detroit -- "A Fatiguing Scramble": July 28-July 31, Mackinac -- "Wild Looking Places": August 1-August 3, Sault Ste. Marie -- "Boundary of Civilization": August 4-August 15, Lake Superior -- "Very Rough": August 16-August 22, Lake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DANGagnon, John (John G.)
Summary: Like Lake Superior itself, the communities of people surrounding the "Big Lake" are vast and full of variety, spanning state and international boundaries. In Lake Superior Profiles: People on the Big Lake, author John Gagnon gives readers a sense of the memorable characters who inhabit the area without attempting to take an exhaustive inventory. Instead, Gagnon met people casually and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 GAGMichigan songs by Michigan songwriters.
Contents: Just a Michigan thing (kirby)-- Grampa Johnson (Claudia Schmidt)--The Manistee River song (Jim Crockett)--Michigan girl (Adair Correll)--Born and raised in Michigan (Barbara Jordan)--Wondering Why (Dick Anthony)--Leelanau County (Louan Lechler)--Saints (Chris Skellenger)--Alpena Colada (Kathy Wieland)--Michigan farmer (Michael Camp)--The Captain (Les Dalgliesh)--Big Sam (Robin Berry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Horizon Books 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL IT'SHolman, J. Alan
Summary: With its temperate climate and variety of habitats, Michigan supports a diverse array of animals and plants, including fifty-four species of amphibians and reptiles. The dispersal and biology of the Michigan herpetofauna amphibians and reptiles is even more unique because Michigan consists of two peninsulas that project into large freshwater seas and also because it was completely covered by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2012
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Contents: Into the sun -- The problem with your daugher -- We went wild -- Mighty -- Son of a gun -- The stranger -- When will I see you again.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK LORMichigan
Contents: I. Population, births, marriages and deaths, and churches and libraries. -- II. Agriculture, manufactories, mines and fisheries. -- III. Soldiers, sailors and marines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R. Smith & Co., State printers 1896
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3 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 312 Census 1894 Vol. 1Call number: NEL RM 312 Census 1894 Vol. 2
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 312 Michigan 1894 Vol. 1
Besnard Lakes (Musical group)
Contents: Like the ocean, like the innocent. Pt. 1, The ocean ; Pt. 2, The innocent -- Chicago train -- Albatross -- Glass printer -- Land of living skies. Pt. 1, The land ; Pt. 2, The living skies -- And this is what we call progress -- Light up the night -- The lonely moan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jagjaguwar 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BESLibert, Steve
Summary: "In 1679, the French ship Le Griffon mysteriously vanished. Was it lost in a violent storm or robbed of its valuable cargo of furs and set ablaze? No one knows, but historians are quite certain the ship found its final resting place on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Now after centuries of mystery and misinformation, Steve and Kathie Libert reveal that Le Griffon likely met her final fate among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 LIBSong of the Lakes (Musical group)
Summary: "This musical yarn is based on the 20th century masterpiece by Holling Clancy Holling of an adventurous little paddle-man who makes his winding way through the Great Lakes to the salt water sea." -- container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Frontier Recording 2004
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL SONThompson, Mark L.
Summary: "For the first time, a historian and seasoned mariner looks beyond the specific circumstances of individual shipwrecks in an effort to reach a clearer understanding of the economic, political, and psychological factors that have influenced the 25,000 wrecks on the Great Lakes over the past 300 years. Looking at the entire tragic history of ship-wrecks on North America's expansive inland seas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 THODowney, Tika.
Summary: Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the state of Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977.4 DOWJames, Sheryl.
Summary: Set in a range of historical time periods and locales as well as featuring a collage of ethnic traditions, these tales are a vivid sample of the state's rich cultural heritage.--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 JAMLankton, Larry D.
Summary: From the Dust Jacket: In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in the 1950s and produced another 4.4 billion pounds of copper through the 1990s. In addition to documenting companies and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977.499 Lankton 2010Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LANBesnard Lakes (Musical group)
Contents: Blackstrap -- Raindrops -- Christmas can wait -- Our heads, our hearts on fire again -- Feuds with guns -- The dark side of paradise -- New revolution -- The father of time wakes up -- The last of the great thunderstorm warnings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BESHathaway, Lorri
Summary: Savor the taste of wines inspired by the Great Lakes as enthusiasts Lorri Hathaway and Sharon Keggerreis introduce passionate winemakers like Joseph Sterling, who ignited Michigan's first viable wine region in the 1800s along Lake Erie. Discover how the Detroit River was used for bootlegging during prohibition, how the raid on red wine in the Upper Peninsula generated national headlines and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 HATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 HAT1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 641.22 HAT
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Bev HathawaySummary: "In Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest, editors Sook Wilkinson and Victor Jew have assembled forty-one diverse contributors to give an intimate glimpse into Michigan's Asian American communities. Contributors create a fuller picture of these often overlooked groups, including the historical and demographic origins of Michigan's Asian American communities, experiences in memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.895 ASIScott, James
Contents: I. John Galt and the formation of the Canada Company -- II. The opening of the tract-Galt, Dunlop and Van Egmond -- III. Galt's departure -- IV. The beginning of settlement -- V. Land lease and the Thomas Mercer Jones Regime -- VI. Rebellion: and later military history -- VII. Development of Agriculture -- VIII. The struggle for schools -- IX. A country emerges -- X. The development of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ryerson Press 1019
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 971.3 SCOSchumacher, Michael
Contents: "How could such a thing happen on a goddamn lake?" Lakes Superior and Michigan -- "So violent a storm": apocalypse on Lake Huron -- "You might not have light tonight": the storm visits Cleveland -- "I might see you in heaven": explorations of loss -- "This was not natural": discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.033 SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.033 SCHRajczak, Michael.
Summary: Presents information on visiting the Great Lakes area, including tourist attractions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977 RAJContents: Introduction / David Buisseret -- Louis Charles Karpinski and the cartography of the Great Lakes / Mary Sponberg Pedley -- First nations mapmaking in the Great Lakes Region in intercultural contexts: a historical review / G. Malcolm Lewis -- The 1767 maps of Robert Rogers and Jonathan Carver: a proposal for the establishment of the colony of Michilimackinac / Keith R. Widder -- Motives for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 526.09774 MAPContents: Introduction: new confessions and revelations from the world of economic hit men / John Perkins -- Global empire: the web of control / Steven Hiatt -- Selling money-- and dependency: setting the debt trap / S.C. Gwynne -- Dirty money: inside the secret world of offshore banking / John Christensen -- BCCI's double game: banking on America, banking on jihad / Lucy Komisar -- The human cost of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1323 GAMSmithyman, Kathryn
Summary: This book introduces children to the traditional lifestyles of Native nations who lived in the western Great Lakes region, as well as the impact of colonization on Native peoples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.04973 SmiCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.04 SMICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Native KalmanNagelhout, Ryan
Summary: Native people have been living around the Great Lakes for thousands of years. As European settlers arrived, they soon learned that the land around the Great Lakes was an ideal place to settle. Readers learn the history of Great Lakes settlement and much more. Full-color photographs showcase the lakes’ beauty, while social studies content introduces the many cities in the region. From the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2015