Oral History Digitization Project
A large collection of oral histories from the Copper Country (in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) and northeastern Minnesota were recorded in the 1970’s by staff and students of Suomi College. Rev. Dr. Arthur Puotinen led the project and received a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities. There are approximately 250 hours of transcribed interviews and about 150 hours of non-transcribed interviews.
In 2010, the Finnish American Historical Archive received a generous grant from the Keweenaw National Historic Park Advisory Commission to digitize the Finnish Folklore and Social Change in the Great Lakes Mining Region Oral History collection.
Complete interviews and transcripts are available to visiting researchers at the Finnish American Historical Archive.
Copyright:
The Finnish American Heritage Center is very proud and excited to make samples of its Oral History Collection available to the public. However, the FAHC Archive holds the exclusive copyright to these files. Any utilization that does not fall under the United States standard of Fair Use (see U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress), including unauthorized re-distribution, is a violation of Federal Law. For any other use, express written consent must be obtained from the Finnish American Historical Archive: joanna.chopp@finlandiafoundation.org.
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Mrs. Gwenlyon (Lempinen) Abrahamson
Born 14 Jan 1892
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 1 Aug 1973 in Abrahamson’s cottage, outside of Greenland, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1870s – 1920s |
Places and Names: Calumet; Red Jacket; Quincy; Allouez; Tamarack; Boston Location; Centennial; Finland; Ahmeek; Detroit; Hancock; Bethlehem Church; Pastor Bäck; Pastor Rautanen; Italian Hall
Subjects: Boardinghouses; Church; Confirmation; Copper mines and mining; Emigration and immigration; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Finnish language, Business enterprises; Finnish newspapers; Finnish-American Mining Company; Knights of Kaleva — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Mohawk Mining Company; Naturalization; Neighbors; Nikander, J. K. (Juho Kustaa), 1855-1919; Recreation; Schools; Socialism — Finnish Americans; Temperance; Winter |
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Mrs. Ida Ahola ; Mrs. Ardelle Stadius |
Interviewed by: Helen Armstrong. 15 Nov 1976 in Hancock, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1920s – 1970s |
| Subjects: Arts and crafts; Childbirth; Cooking; Family — History; Finnish Americans; Food; Home remedies; Knitting; Languages and language; Manners and customs; Massage; Medical care; Midwifery; Physicians; Sauna; Traditional medicine |
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Arvid Alanen
Born 26 Jan 1897, Ishpeming, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Elma Ranta. Apr 1975 in Ishpeming, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1880s – mid 1900s |
Places and Names: Copper Harbor; Houghton; Ishpeming; Laihia, Finland; Marquette; Calumet; Illinois
Subjects: Boardinghouses; Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company; Copper mines and mining — Accidents; Emigration and immigration; Family; Farming; Farming — Finland; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Geological surveys; Schools; Weddings |
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Annie Aldrich
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Interviewed by: Betty Berry. 18 Jul 1973
Inclusive dates: late 1800s – 1940s |
Places and Names: Atlantic Mine; Houghton; Painesdale; Keweenaw Club; Doctor Aldrich; Atlantic Mine; Amphidrome; Mining Gazette
Subjects: Christmas; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Cornish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Epidemics; Family; Great Depression; Hockey — Houghton (Mich.); Hunting; Medical care; Methodist Church — Houghton (Mich.); Mines and mining resources — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Physicians; Prohibition; Schools; Strikes and lockouts — Copper mining — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Temperance; Transportation — Houghton (Mich.); United States. Works Progress Administration; Women — Suffrage — Houghton (Mich.); World War, 1939-1945 |
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Aliina Alto and son Toivo “Rusty” |
Interviewed by: Adrian Niemi. 18 Feb 1975 in Virginia, Minn.
In Finnish
Inclusive dates: 1913 |
| Subjects: Agriculture; Alcohol; Bars (drinking establishments); Brothels; Capone, Al, 1899-1947; Dillinger, John, 1903-1934; Emigration and immigration; Gambling; Gangsters; Hurley (Wis.); Ironwood (Mich.); Logging; Mafia; Prostitution; Proverbs; Roulette; Superstition; Traditional medicine |
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Annie and Leon Anderson (Santini’s Bar)
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Interviewed by: Randy Maki in Santini’s Hotel and Bar, Hurley, Wisc.
Inclusive dates: 1930s – 1970s |
| Places and Names: Hurley, WI; Al Capone; John Dillinger |
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Wallace Anderson
Born in Pequaming, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 20 Feb 1975 in Anderson’s home, Houghton, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1870s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Pequaming; Finntown — Pequaming; Zeba — Pequaming; Dollar Bay; Houghton; Hancock; Hebard Lumber Company
Subjects: Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Copper wire, World War I; Emigration and immigration; Hockey — Pequaming (Mich.), Gunsmithing; Irish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Logging; Lumber Camps; Michigan Technological University; Norwegian Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Pioneers — Pequaming (Mich.); Quincy Mining Company; Sawmills; Strikes and lockouts — Copper mining; World War, 1914-1918 |
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Wallace Anderson |
Interviewed by: Robert Whitman. 11 Apr 1975 in Interviewee’s office
Inclusive dates: 1940s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Japan; Germany
Subjects: Germany; Investigations; Japan; Military intelligence; United States Air Force |
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Dr. Clarence Andrews
Born in Iowa, professor at MTU
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Bob Olson in WMPL Radio Station, Houghton, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1913-1914 |
Places and Names: Calumet; Red Jacket; Hancock; Houghton; Quincy; Painesdale; Charles Moyer; Annie Clements “Big Annie,” Anna Rabas; Charles Struzel; Laurie Waatti; John Maynarich; Ed Rossberg; Mary Grentz; Francis Steke; Woody Guthrie; Rose Stukel Sever; Arelia Goodreau Rintala; Walter Lahti; Marian Kentala Mosack; Irene Alla Westala; Steve Verbanick; Jim Stukel; Anthony Lucas; William Jane; Samuel Rowe; A. B. Newton, Russell Waatti, Company G — Houghton; Painesdale Shooting; McNaughton; Charles Struzel; Andicot Lovell; Amanda Lampala; Rueben Hill; Charles Laurie; Peter Murphy; Tony Podriznik
Subjects: Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Copper mines and mining; Croatian Americans — Michigan; Finnish Americans — Michigan; Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913; Labor unions; Slovenian Americans — Michigan; Strikes and lockouts — Copper mining; Western Federation of Miners |
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Elroy Antila
Born 20 Nov 1929, Calumet, Mich. |
Interviewed by: Gary J. Mills 6 Aug 1975 in Suomi College
Inclusive dates: 1920s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Calumet, MI; Calumet Schools; Ishpeming Iron Mining History; love; stories
Subjects: Calumet (Mich.); Education Schools |
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Walt Arsenault
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| Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 9 Dec 1975 |
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Amelia Autio |
Interviewed by: Adrian Niemi. 6 Oct 1975 in Orr, Minn.
In Finnish |
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Lempi (Johnson) Auvinen
Born 10 Feb 1899, Crystal Falls, Mich. |
Interviewed by: Helen Armstrong. 1 Nov 1976 in Crystal Falls, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Venezuela
Subjects: Arts and crafts; Childbirth; Cooking; Education; Finnish Americans; Food — Finnish; Hairstyles Home remedies; Land tenure — Law and legislation — Finland; Massage; Medical care; Midwifery; Midwifery; Names, Finnish; Physician; Sauna; Schools — Finland; Traditional medicine; Venezuela; Weaving; Family — History |
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Hattie S. Bartanen
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| Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 8 Aug 1972 |
| Subject terms: Emigration and Immigration; Finnish Americans; Home ownership; Wolverine (Mich.); Education; Copper mines and mining; Traditional medicine; Cupping |
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Roy D. Bell
Born in Munising, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Allan Lavery. 31 Jan 1974 in L’Anse, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1920s – 11004 |
Places and Names: L’Anse; Munising; Baraga; Pequaming; Hebard Lumber Company; Thomas Nestor
Subjects: Bears; Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company; Ford Motor Company; Forest and forestry — Valuation — Michigan; Logging — Michigan; Lumber Camps — Michigan; Mead Corporation; Nestor Lumber Company; Paper mills; Sawmills — Michigan; Snowshoes and snowshoeing |
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Warren M. Bell
Born 26 Aug 1882, Chicago, IL
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Paul Jalkanen. 27 Jul 1972 in Hancock, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1897- |
Places and Names: Hancock; Calumet; Quincy; Western Express; Houghton County Department of Social Welfare; Public Relief Commission
Subjects: Boys’ Brigade; Church; Congregational Church — Hancock (Mich.); Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Copper mines and mining; Cornish Americans — Michigan; Ethnic groups; Finnish Americans — Michigan; Great Depression; High schools — Hancock (Mich.); Home remedies; Law enforcement; Medical care; Physicians; Public welfare — Houghton County (Mich.); Quincy Mining Company; Recreation; Schools; Strikes and lockouts — Copper mining; Voting; Winter; Boys’ Brigade |
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Russell Bergh ; Walter S. Homlund ; Minne Marsi
M. Marsi Born Jan 1888, Hurontown, Mich.; W. Homlund Born abt. 1908
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 31 Jul 1973 in home of Walter Holmlund, Jacobsville, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1880s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Jacobsville; Hancock; White City; Jacobsville Quarry; Jacobsville Finnish Lutheran Church; Amerikan Suometar; St. John’s Day; Juhannus (Midsummer)
Subjects: Accidents — Jacobsville (Mich.); Bars (Drinking establishments) — Jacobsville (Mich.) Belgian Americans — Michigan; Business enterprises — Jacobsville (Mich.); Cemeteries — Jacobsville (Mich.); Church; Confirmation; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Farming; Finnish Americans; Finnish newspapers; Fishing; Great Depression; Groceries; Logging — Jacobsville (Mich.); Longyear, John Munro, 1850-1922; Lumber Camps — Jacobsville (Mich.); Medical care — Jacobsville (Mich.); Medicine; Music; Nikander, J. K. (Juho Kustaa), 1855-1919; Norwegian Americans; Physicians; Quarries and quarrying; Recreation; Sailing — Great Lakes; Sandstone; Schools; Shipwrecks; Strikes and
lockouts — Copper mining; Suomi College; Teachers; Temperance — Jacobsville (Mich.); Traditional medicine; United States Works Progress Administration; Weddings; World War, 1939-1945 |
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Battista Bigando
Born 8 Aug 1883, Italy
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Wallace Anderson. 7 Aug 1973 in Home of Bat Bigando, Calumet, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1890s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Calumet; Spring Valley, IL; Houghton; Laurium; Allouez; Kerredge Theatre — Hancock
Subjects: Boardinghouses; Calumet & Hecla Band; Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Circus; Coal mines and mining; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Copper mines and mining — Accidents; Emigration and immigration; Family; Great Depression; Hockey; Italian Americans — Michigan; Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913; Medical care — Calumet (Mich.); Miners; Mining; Musicians; Physicians; Strikes and lockouts — Copper mining; Theaters; Mining; Circus; Copper mines and mining; Copper mines and mining — Accidents; Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Calumet & Hecla Band |
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John Bigando
Born 7 Jul 1885, Italy
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Wallace Anderson. 7 Jul 1973 in Allouez, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1880s – 1940s |
| Places and Names: Tornio; Finland; Spring Valley, IL; Calumet; Rambletown; Calumet; Chicago; Detroit |
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John Bigando
Born 7 Jul 1885, Italy
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Wallace Anderson. 20 Jul 1973 in Allouez, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1880s – 1940s |
Places and Names: Calumet; Detroit; Hancock; Rambletown; Kerredge Theatre — Hancock
Subjects: Boardinghouses, Recreation, Picnics, Great Depression; Boxing; Calumet & Hecla Band; Calumet (Mich.); Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Emigration and immigration; Ethnic groups; Ethnic relations; Food; Irish Americans; Bands; Nisonen, Martti, 1891-1946; Sligo (Ireland); Suomi College; Transatlantic voyages; United States Works Progress Administration |
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Pat Brennan
Born 1878, Sligo, Ireland |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 28 Jan 1976
Inclusive dates: 1890s – 1970s |
Places and Names: New York; Chicago; Sligo, Ireland; Calumet, MI
Subject terms: Boxing; Recreation; Athletes; Boxers; Calumet, MI |
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Russell Brown; John Butkovich
Born 5 Feb 1890?, Michigan (Brown) |
Interviewed by: (interviewer unknown). 30 June 1975
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
| Subjects: Clairvoyance; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Copper mines and mining; Copper Range Railroad Company; Distilling, Illicit; Fourth of July celebrations; Games; Great Depression; Home remedies; Hunting; Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913; Midwifery; Mine lighting; Mineral Range Railroad Company; Picnics; Plays; Railroad accidents; Railroads — Employees; Recreation; Slovenian Americans; Theaters; Traditional medicine; Yugoslav Americans |
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Rose A. Butala
Born abt 1894, Calumet, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Betty Fisher. 8 Aug 1974
Inclusive dates: early 1900s – 11009 |
Places and Names: Calumet; Laurium; Michigan Bell Telephone Company
Subjects: Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Childhood; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913; Mines and mineral resources — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Music; Radio; Recreation; Schools; Strikes and lockouts — Copper mining; Tailors; Telephone operators — Calumet (Mich.); Telephone operators; Winter storms — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); World War I |
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Ruth (Gibson) Butler
Born 11 Jul 1891, Republic, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Paul Jalkanen. 9 Aug 1972
Inclusive dates: 1860s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Republic; Mass City; Houghton; Mexico; Calumet; Victoria; Rockland; Republic Mine; Republic Methodist Church; Bayview Study Club; Houghton County Historical Society; Eleanor Roosevelt; Census Taker
Subjects: Alcohol Books; Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Camp Fire Girls; Church Constitutional conventions — Michigan; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Dating (Social customs) Education; Elections; Engineering; Family; Great Depression; High Schools — Houghton (Mich.); Home remedies, Logging; Lumber; Mexico — History — Revolution, 1910-1920; Michigan Technological University; Michigan. State Highway Commission; Mine accidents — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Mines and mineral resources — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) Mining corporations; Political campaigns; Postsecondary education — Michigan; Reading; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Schools; Stables; Strikes and lockouts — Copper mining; Universities and colleges — Michigan; Weddings; Women in politics; World War, 1914-1918 |
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Leslie Chapman
Born 1894
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Paul Jalkanen. 3 Aug 1972 in Calumet, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1880s – 1940s |
Places and Names: Calumet; Dollar Bay; Tamarack Mills; Osceola Mills; Ishpeming; Negaunee; Atlantic Mine; Arizona; Mayflower; Tamarack; Rambletown; Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Security; Smelter Patent Lawsuit
Subjects: Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Circus; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Copper mining; Cornish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Crime; Distilling, Illicit; Education; Elections; Family; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Great Depression; Home remedies; Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913; Labor unions; Law enforcement; Police; Prohibition; Recipes; Recreation; Sailing — Great Lakes; Sailing — South America; Schools; Strikes and lockouts — Copper mining; Swedish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Calumet and Hecla Mining Company |
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Virginia A. Cooper
Born abt 1910, Hubbell
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Betty Berry. 7 Aug 1973 in Houghton, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Eagle River; Hubbell; Houghton; Kenton; Cliff Mine; Sidnaw; Kenton; Berglund; Couzens Fund; Thimbleberry Jam; Amphidrome; Kerredge Theatre
Subjects: Charities; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) — Michigan; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Great Depression; High Schools — Houghton (Mich.); Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919; Michigan Technological University; Physicians, Recreation, Rural schools; Schools; Teaching; Transportation, Tuberculosis Winter, World War, 1914-1918; Schools |
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Ray Eilola
Born in Pelkie, Mich
Transcript |
Interviewed by: (interviewer unknown) in Pelkie, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1910s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Pelkie
Subjects: Family; Farm equipment; Farming; Gardening; Livestock; Neighbors |
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Arthur B. Erickson
Born in Pelkie, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 20 Oct 1973 in Pelkie, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900 – 1970s |
Places and Names: Pelkie; Baraga
Subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments) — Pelkie (Mich.); Business enterprises — Pelkie (Mich.); Dairying, Cooperative — Pelkie (Mich.); Dunsmore, John; Farm equipment; Farm life — Pelkie (Mich.); Farming — Pelkie (Mich.); Farming — Pelkie (Mich.); Haying equipment; Logging — Upper Michigan (Mich.); Lumber camps — Upper Michigan (Mich.); Medical care — Pelkie (Mich.); Nestor Lumber Company; Pelkie, William, b. 1853 Physicians; Rural families — Pelkie (Mich.); Sawmills; Telephone |
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Arthur Erickson; Emil Pelto; William and Matt Waisanen
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 21 Oct 1973 in Waisanen’s home in Pelkie, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – |
| Subjects: Anecdotes; Bars (drinking establishments); Bears; Cattle — Prices; Cheese factories; Community life — Pelkie (Mich.); Cooperative societies — Pelkie (Mich.); Country life Country life; Creameries — Pelkie (Mich.); Dairy farming; Deer; Disappeared persons; Farming; Game wardens; Ghost stories; Great Depression; Hunting; Law enforcement; Log Transportation; Milk; Partridges; Pelkie (Mich.); Poaching; Post office stations and branches; Restaurants; Rural landowners; Rural roads; Rural schools; Skunks; Timber; Transportation, Wild animals; Wolves |
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Arthur B. Erickson
Born in Pelkie, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 5 Oct 1974 in Pelkie, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Baraga; Sturgeon River; Chassell; L’Anse; Pelkie; Swede Pete aka Peter Nelson Rane (aka Whiskey Pekka); Worcester Lumber Company — Chassell; Thomas Bond; Matt Oja; Urho Erikainen
Subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments); Business enterprises — Pelkie (Mich.); Communism — Pelkie (Mich.); Cooperative societies — Pelkie (Mich.); Dairying, Cooperative — Pelkie (Mich.); Dance parties; Deer hunting; Distilling, Illicit; Dunsmore, John; Finnish Americans — Michigan; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.), Recreation; Logging — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Logging Camps; Lumber camps — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Medicine; Nestor Lumber Company ; Pelkie, William, b. 1853 People — Pelkie (Mich.); Recreation; Sawmills; Swedish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Tonics (Medicinal preparations) |
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Bertha Erickson
Born 20 Aug 1912, Atlantic Mine, Mich. |
Interviewed by: Bill Erickson. 20 Aug 1975 in Ahmeek, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1910 – 1920s |
Places and Names: Painesdale Grade School; Miss Jarvis
Subjects: Education; Schools — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Teachers |
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Ida S. Erickson
Born in Ely, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Douglas Ollila. 9 Aug 1973 in Ely, MN
Inclusive dates: 1900s |
Places and Names: Ely, MN; Finnish Stock Company — Ely; John Edward; Suomi College
Subjects: Education; Emigration and immigration; Ethnic groups — Minnesota; Finnish Americans — Minnesota; Great Depression; Medical care — Minnesota; Mines and mineral resources — Minnesota; Nikander, J. K. (Juho Kustaa), 1855-1919; Recreation; Schools — Minnesota — St. Louis County; Slovenian Americans — Minnesota; Socialism — Minnesota; Suomi College; Suomi Synod — Minnesota |
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Otto Erikainen
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 4 Dec 1975 |
| Places and Names: Pelkie Cheese Factory; Italian Hall Disaster; Pine Creek Road; David Erikainen |
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Linne Maria Erkkila
Born 17 Apr 1903, Ishpeming, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Elma Ranta. 5 Apr 1975 in Ishpeming, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Ishpeming; Bethel Lutheran Church
Subjects: Church — Ishpeming (Mich.); Community life — Ishpeming (Mich.); Elections — Ishpeming (Mich.); Family — History; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Funeral rites and ceremonies; Holidays — Ishpeming (Mich.); Medical care — Ishpeming (Mich.); Nursing; Schools — Ishpeming (Mich.); Suomi College; Traditional medicine |
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Urho Errikainen
Born 1904
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 3 Jun 1973
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Pelkie
Subjects: Clearing of land — Tree stump removal; Communism — Pelkie (Mich.); Dairying, Cooperative — Pelkie (Mich.); Family; Farming — Pelkie (Mich.); Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Gristmills — Pelkie (Mich.); Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913; Loans; Logging — Pelkie (Mich.) |
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Urho Errikainen
Born 1904
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 20 Sep 1974 in Winkler Nursing Home, L’Anse, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
| Subjects: Chores; Community life — Pelkie (Mich.); Cookery (Cereals); Courtship; Discipline of children; Emigration and immigration; Farming — Pelkie (Mich.); Farming — Pelkie (Mich.); Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Fishing — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Gardening; Logging — Pelkie (Mich.); Lumber Camps — Pelkie (Mich.); Mineral Range Railroad; Pelkie (Mich.); Traffic Accidents |
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Sylvia [Bonnie] Eskola |
Interviewed by: Bonnie Longenecker. 1 July 197x in Interviewee’s home in Hancock, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1930s – |
Subjects: Education; Ethnic groups; Ethnic relations; Michigan Technological University; Northern Michigan University;
Northern State Normal School (Mich.); Rural Schools — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Rural schools; Teaching |
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Ida (Saari) Fitzpatric
Born 31 Aug 1903
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 4 Oct 1974 in Pelkie, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Pelkie; Pelkie School
Subjects: Clubs — Pelkie (Mich.); Community life — Pelkie (Mich.); Education — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Family — History; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Fund raising — Pelkie (Mich.); Peddlers — Pelkie (Mich.); Rural schools — Pelkie (Mich.); Teaching — Michigan |
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Jack Foley
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 9 Aug 1972 in Dollar Bay, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1860s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Dollar Bay
Subjects: Brothels — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Community life — Dollar Bay (Mich.); Copper mines and mining — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Great Depression — Detroit (Mich.); Labor unions — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Medical care — Dollar Bay (Mich.); Mining corporations — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Quincy Mining Company; Schools — Dollar Bay (Mich.); Socialism — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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Willard Foremen
Born 24 Mar 1910
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Wallace Anderson. 1 Aug 1972 in Allouez, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1860s – |
Places and Names: Mohawk; Fulton
Subjects: Boardinghouses — Mohawk (Mich.); Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Community life — Fulton (Mich.); Community life — Mohawk (Mich.); Copper mines and mining — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Dance parties — Mohawk (Mich.); Elections — Mohawk (Mich.); Ethnic groups — Mohawk (Mich.); Great Depression; Recreation — Mohawk (Mich.); Schools — Mohawk (Mich.); Sports — Mohawk (Mich.); Traditional medicine — Mohawk (Mich.); United States Works Progress Administration — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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William John Foster
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Dorias Helgren; Larry Harju. 22 Jul 1974 in Michigan State Police Post: Calumet, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – |
Places and Names: Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Security
Subjects: Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich.; 1913-1914 Law enforcement — Calumet (Mich.) |
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Eleanor B. Fournier
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 31 Jul 1973 in Hancock, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1940s |
| Subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments) — Winona (Mich.); Church — Hancock (Mich.); French Canadians — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Great Depression — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Law enforcement; Lumber camps — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Michigan Technological University; Schools — Winona (Mich.); Winona (Mich.); World War II |
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Victor Fredd
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 17 Jul 1972 in Hancock, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1890s – |
| Subjects: Hancock (Mich.); Houghton County Treasurer Quincy Mining Company; Valparaiso University |
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William A. Gardner
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Dorias Helgren; Larry Harju. 5 Aug 1974 |
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Swande Godell
Born abt 1900, Karvia, Finland
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Ellen Tuomi. 28 Jul 1972 in Godell’s home in Chassell
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Watton, MI; Chassell, MI; Covington, MI
Subjects: Board of Education — Chassell (Mich.); Chassell Fire Department; Churches — Watton (Mich.); Community life — Covington (Mich.); Community life — Finland; Community life — Watton (Mich.); Covington Township Supervisor; Drinking — Illicit — Covington (Mich.); Education — Watton (Mich.); Emigration and immigration; Lions Club — Chassell (Mich.); Lumber Camps — Chassell (Mich.); Medical care — Chassell (Mich.); Medical care — Finland; Newspapers; Timber Producers Association of Wisconsin and Michigan; Tourism — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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R. Allen Good
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 10 Aug 1973 in Good’s home in Houghton
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Hydraulic Air Compressor in Mine; Houghton County Historical Society; Keweenaw Historical Society; Marquette County Historical Society, Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Library
Subjects: Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Canada; Churches — Hancock (Mich.); College teachers — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Communism — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Congregational Church — Hancock (Mich.); Ethnic groups — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Family — history; Franklin Mining Company; German Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Grand Rapids (Mich.); Great Depression; History — Societies, etc. — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Ku Klux Klan; Michigan —
history; Michigan Technological University; Mining corporations — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Pennsylvania; United States Works Progress Administration — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Victoria Mine — Michigan |
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Robert Goodell
Born abt 1911, Painesdale, Mich. |
Interviewed by: Debbie Tarvis. 11 Aug 1974
Inclusive dates: 1890s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Coppertown USA
Subjects: Churches — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) Community life — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Education; Family — History; Great Depression — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Medical care; Transportation — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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Swande Goodell
Born 1900, Finland |
Interviewed by: Robert Tuomi. 7 Aug 19xx in Chassell, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1940s |
Places and Names: Covington, MI; Watton, MI
Subjects: Education; Ethnic groups; Ford Motor Company; Home remedies; Literacy; Logging–Accidents; Logging- Equipment and supplies; Lumber camps; Medical Care; Recreation; Schools; Wages |
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Mattie Gray; Olive Funk; Wilmer L. Savela
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Bonnie Longenecker. 7 Aug 1974 in Gray’s home in Chassell
Inclusive dates: 1910s – 1920s |
Places and Names: Chassell, MI
Subjects: Education; Schools — Chassell (Mich.); Teachers — Chassell (Mich.) |
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Gust A. Gustafson
Born 4 May 1898, Ely, Minn.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Adrian A. Niemi. 4 Dec 1974 in Gustafson’s home in Duluth
Inclusive dates: 1905 – 1960s |
Places and Names: Chisholm, MN; Duluth, MN; 1908 Fire in Chisholm
Subjects: Community life — Chisholm (Minn.); Ethnic groups — Chisholm (Minn.); Family — History; Finlandia Foundation; Finnish Americans — Minnesota; Fires — Chisholm (Minn.); Mines and mining — Chisholm (Minn.); Minnesota Finnish American Historical Society; Minnesota Power Company; Recreation — Chisholm (Minn.); Strikes and lockouts — Miners — Chisholm (Minn.) |
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Isaac Newton Haas
Born abt 1875, Houghton, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Betty M. Berry. 21 Sep 1972 in Houghton
Inclusive dates: 1880s – 1940s |
Places and Names: Houghton, MI; Sack Rider; Houghton County Fair
Subjects: Business enterprises — Houghton (Mich.); Clothing and dress; Community life — Houghton (Mich.); Fishing — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Hockey — Houghton (Mich.); Hunting — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Parades — Houghton (Mich.); Sailing — Great Lakes |
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Rev. Martin Halinen
Born 30 Apr 1904, Mikkeli, Vanhamäki, Finland
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 14 Aug 1973 in Halinen’s home in Hancock
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Mikkeli, Vanhamäki, Finland; Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, WI; Canada; Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada; Finnish Civil War
Subjects: Assault and battery — Lumber camps — Canada; Education — Finland; Emigration and immigration; Evangelistic work — Finland; Farm life — Finland; Pastor; Religious education — Finland; Religious education — United States; Service, Compulsory — Finland; Socialism — Canada; Socialism — Finland — History |
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Ken Hamer; Archie Courchaine |
Interviewed by: Swande Godell. 13 Aug 1975 in Chassell, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1887-1940s |
Places and Names: Chassell, MI; Chassell School; White City School; R&M; manufacturing; Third River Lumber Co; Chassell Bank
Subjects: Chassell (Mich.); Hockey; Knights of Pythias; Logging; Rural Schools; Sawmills; School music; Schools |
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Mary Hansen; Tillie Hendrickson
Born 1883, Michigan 1881, Michigan |
Interviewed by: Helen Armstrong. 29 October 1976 in Calumet, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1880s-1920s |
Places and Names: Norway, MI; Calumet, MI; Toivola, MI; Skanee, MI; Calumet Schools; Skanee Schools
Subjects: Cheese making; Coffee breaks; Copper mining; Dress Codes; English as a Second Language; Family size; Farming; Finnish Americans; Finnish cooking; Food preservation; Home remedies; Rural Schools; Sauna; Skiing; Strikes–1910-1920; Swedish Americans; Swedish cooking; Teacher Training; Weaving |
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Al Harvey
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 18 Jun 1973 |
Places and Names: Tamarack Mine; Calumet, MI
Subjects: Ethnic Groups; Finnish Americans; Housing; Education; Working conditions; Mining accidents; Italian Hall Disaster; 1913; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-14 |
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Anne Haug
Born abt 1885, Houghton, Mich.
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Betty Berry. 15 Aug 1973 in Houghton |
Places and Names: Houghton, MI; White City, MI; Freda Park
Subjects: Community life — Houghton (Mich.);Family — History; German Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Recipes — German Americans; Recreation — White City (Mich.); Religious life — Houghton (Mich.); Winter — Recreation — Houghton (Mich.) |
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Rev. Paul and Eva (Kaukkonen) Heideman
Born in Calumet
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen in Calumet, Mich. In Finnish
Inclusive dates: 1890s – 1940s |
Places and Names: Calumet, MI; Finland; Mexican – Finnish Wedding; Calumet (Mich.)
Subjects: Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Ethnic groups — Calumet (Mich.); First Apostolic Lutheran Church — Calumet (Mich.); Laestadianism — Finland; Laestadianism — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Lay preaching; Weddings — Calumet (Mich.); Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Ethnic groups — Calumet (Mich.); First Apostolic Lutheran Church — Calumet (Mich.); Laestadianism — Finland; Laestadianism — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Lay preaching;
Weddings — Calumet (Mich.); Sermons; Church Finns; Discrimination |
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Anna Lydia Heikkilä
Born 1884, Jyvaskyla, Finland |
Interviewed by: (interviewer unknown). 23 Jul 1973 in Green Bay (Wis.).
In Finnish
Inclusive dates: early 1900s |
Places and Names: Copper Island; Ontonagon; Chicago; Green Bay, WI; Jyvaskyla, Finland; Lake Superior; Jyvaskyla, Finland
Subjects: Berries; Childhood; Education.; Families; Food; Health; Lullabies; Manners and customs; Nursery rhymes; Quality of life; Traditional medicine; Voting; Weaving |
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Walter Heikkila |
Interviewed by: Janet Peterson. November 11, 1974 in interviewee’s home in Chassell, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1920s-1940s |
Places and Names: Chassell, MI; Nisula, MI
Subjects: Chassell (Mich.); Funeral coaches; Funeral customs and rites; Funeral rites and ceremonies–America–History; Nisula (Mich.) |
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Viljo Heiman
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Ralph Jalkanen. 24 Jan 1981 in Lantana, FL |
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Adrian Heinonen |
| Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen |
Places and Names: Upper Sturgeon
Subjects: Deer hunting — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Hunting — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Hunting lodges — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Porcupines — Anecdotes — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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Adrian Heinonen; Denia Kemppainen
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 19 Oct 1973 in Pelkie, Mich. |
Places and Names: Pelkie, MI; Limestone Mountain Threshing Company — Pelkie (Mich.)
Subjects: Business transactions — Pelkie (Mich.); Chores; Community life — Pelkie (Mich.); Deer hunting — Pelkie (Mich.); Farming — Pelkie (Mich.); Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); First Apostolic Lutheran Church — Pelkie (Mich.); Fishing — Pelkie (Mich.); Great Depression; Harvest — Pelkie (Mich.); Laestadianism — Pelkie (Mich.); Loans — Pelkie (Mich.); Logging — Pelkie (Mich.); Lumber Camps — Pelkie (Mich.); Lumber camps — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Peddlers — Pelkie (Mich.); Punishment; Shopping — Pelkie (Mich.) |
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Nick Hendrickson; John Palosaari
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 14 Jul 1972
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
| Subjects: Athletic clubs — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Bars (Drinking establishments) — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Copper mines and mining — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Emigration and immigration; Ethnic groups — Hancock (Mich.); Family — History; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Great Depression; Labor unions — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Law enforcement — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Medical care; Radio; Religious education — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Transportation — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Winter — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Russia; Communism; Winter War |
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Gust E. Hill
Born 9 Oct 1887, Finland
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Elma Ranta. 9 Sep 1974 in Marquette, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1890s – 1920s |
Places and Names: Marquette, MI; Waukegan, IL; Kipling, MI; Chatham, MI; National Lutheran Church — Marquette (Mich.)
Subjects: Automobiles — Marquette (Mich.); Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company; Family — History; Finland — History; Heating — Finland; Heating — Marquette (Mich.); Hospitals — Marquette (Mich.); Lumber camps — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Medical care — Marquette (Mich.); Upper Peninsula (Mich.) — History; Wages — Marquette (Mich.); French Americans; Fights |
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Gust E. Hill
Born 9 Oct 1887, Finland
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Elma Ranta. 9 Nov 1974 in Marquette, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1908 – 1940s |
Places and Names: Marquette, MI; Marquette County Fair; Cliff Dow
Subjects: Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company; Cooperative societies — Marquette (Mich.); Cows — Marquette (Mich.); Finnish Americans — Marquette (Mich.); Fishing — Marquette (Mich.); Heating — Marquette (Mich.); Housing — Marquette (Mich.); Industries — Marquette (Mich.); Johnson, Frank; Marquette (Mich.) — History; Upper Peninsula (Mich.) — History |
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Mrs. Jean Hill
Born 1909, Finland |
Interviewed by: Helen Armstrong. November 16, 1976 in Interviewee’s home in Chassell, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1910 – |
Places and Names: Chassell, MI; Detroit, MI; Hancock, MI; Suomi Business College
Subjects: Baked goods; Bread baking; Crafts; Cupping; Finnish Americans, Family Size; Finnish Americans; Finnish Cooking; Food preservation; Gardening–Michigan–Upper Peninsula; Home remedies; Knitting; Looms; Midwifery — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Personal history; Rag rugs — Michigan — Upper Peninsula; Weaving |
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Vivian Hiltunen
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Vivian Hiltunen. 15 Apr 1974 |
| Subjects: Holidays; Chicken Pox; Sauna, Snowmobile Clubs; Housekeeping; Tupperware parties; Stinginess |
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Frank and Richard Hinks
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: (interviewer unknown) |
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Emma Hoffman
Born 1898 |
Interviewed by: David Hoffman. December 26, 1945
Inclusive dates: 1899-1940s |
Places and Names: Upper Peninsula, MI; Jefferson School
Subjects: Family Size; Personal history; Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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Laina Hogback
Born abt 1920
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Helen Armstrong. 7 Oct 1976 in Snake River, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1920s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Chassell, MI; Snake River, MI
Subjects: Cooking, Finnish — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Family — History; Finnish Americans — Chassell (Mich.); Nursing — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Traditional medicine; Weaving; Looms |
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Charles Hohl
Born abt 1880
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 18 Jul 1972
Inclusive dates: 1898 – 1970s |
Places and Names: Houghton, MI; Calumet, MI; Bigelow Mines; Tamarack Mine
Subjects: Community life — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Copper mines and mining — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) Copper mines and mining — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Ethnic groups — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Geological surveys — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Michigan Technological University; Mining corporations — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Recreation — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Religious life — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Strikes and lockouts — Copper mining; Transportation — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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John Emil Hokkanen |
Interviewed by: (interviewer unknown). 1 Jul 1973 in Deer Lake, Minn.
In Finnish |
| Subjects: Agriculture; Church; Emigration and immigration; Language & lifestyles; Leisure; Preaching; Traditional medicine; Transportation |
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Armas Holmio
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 1 Jul 1972 |
| Subject terms: Finnish Americans; Nationalism; World War II; Finnish Relief Fund; Suomi College; Finnish American archive collection; Franciscans; Rauma (Finland); International trade; Education; Religions |
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Walt Holmlund
Born in Atlantic Mine, Mich. |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. May 9, 1974 in interviewee’s home in Jacobsville, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1896-1940s |
Places and Names: Atlantic Mine, MI; Jacobsville, MI; Suomi College; Jacobsville Church; Alfred Nichols; Osceola Township Schools
Subjects: Education; Finlandia University (formerly Suomi College); Gerontology; Jacobsville (Mich.); Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.); Upper Peninsula [Mich.]; Personal History |
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Helen Huhtala
Born 1910, Stannard, Mich. |
Interviewed by: D.E.B. May 12, 1976 in interviewee’s Home in Iron River, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1920s-1940s |
| Places and Names: Iron River, MI; Leningrad, Russia; Karelia; Finland |
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Axel Hyypio |
Interviewed by: (Oral History Student). July 18, 1973.
In Finnish |
Places and Names: Otter lake, MI; Kemijärvi; Muonio; Suomussalmi
Subjects: Agriculture; Culture Emigration and immigration; Family Fire; God; Religion; Traditional medicine; Winter |
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Olga Marie (Peterson) Hyypio
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Viola J. Brown. 13 Jul 1973 |
| Places and Names: Peter Hyypio, Kate Niemi and her home remedies |
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Mrs. Anna Isola
Born 1901, Calumet, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Wallace Anderson. 9 Jul 1973 in Isola’s home in Calumet, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1920s |
Places and Names: Elo, MI; Bear Lake, MI; Calumet, MI; Electric Park; Tamarack Park
Subjects: Business enterprises — Calumet (Mich.); Community life — Bear Lake (Mich.); Community life — Calumet (Mich.); Family — History; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Games — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); High schools — Calumet (Mich.); Recreation — Calumet (Mich.) Rural schools — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Teachers — Calumet (Mich.); Traditional medicine — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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Heimo “Paddy” Jaaskelainen
Born 24 Apr 1912, Mohawk, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Wallace Anderson. 3 Aug 1972 in Bete Gris, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Mohawk, MI; Calumet, MI; Glacier Dome — Mohawk (Mich.)
Subjects: Baseball — Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.); Boxers (Sports) — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Boxing — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Dempsey, Jack; Emigration and immigration; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Hockey — Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.); Sports — Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.) |
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Bertha Jacka
Born in Calumet, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Betty Berry in Jacka’s home in Calumet, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1860s – 1900s |
Places and Names: Calumet, MI; Red Jacket, MI; Yellow Jacket, MI; Blue Jacket, MI; Newtown, MI; Houghton, MI; Crestview; Eagle River, MI; Glass Block store; Vertins Department store; Ed Haas store; Electric Park; Calumet Theatre
Subjects: Business enterprises — Calumet (Mich.); Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Calumet (Mich.) — History; Community life — Calumet (Mich.); Community life — Calumet (Mich.); Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Education — Calumet (Mich.); Epidemics — Calumet (Mich.); Episcopal Church — Calumet (Mich.); Ethnic groups — Calumet (Mich.); Family — History; Fire departments — Calumet (Mich.); Fourth of July celebrations — Calumet (Mich.);
Games — Calumet (Mich.); Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913; Medical care — Calumet (Mich.); Newspapers — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Physicians — Calumet (Mich.); Recreation — Calumet (Mich.); Recreation — Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.); Schools — Calumet (Mich.); Societies — Calumet (Mich.); Teachers — Calumet Region (Mich.) Winter — Calumet (Mich.) |
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Katie Jackala
Born 1884 |
Interviewed by: Armstrong, Helen. November 7,1976
Inclusive dates: 1890s – |
Places and Names: Otter Lake, MI; Detroit, MI; Red Cross; Finnish Relief Society
Subjects: Baked goods; Crafts; Cupping; Detroit (Mich.); Finnish Americans; Finnish Cooking; Finnish Relief Society;
Knitting; Midwifery; Red Cross; Sauna — Michigan; Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Weaving |
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Aileen (Savola) Jacobson
Born in Marquette, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Elma Ranta. 16 Feb 1975 in Marquette, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Marquette, MI; St. Luke’s Hospital; Marquette County Fair; melting lead to tell fortune; Tuberculosis Sanitarium — Marquette (Mich.)
Subjects: Community life — Marquette (Mich.); Ethnic groups — Marquette (Mich.); Family — History; Finnish Americans — Marquette (Mich.) Nursing — Marquette (Mich.); Nursing education — Marquette (Mich.); Recreation — Marquette (Mich.); Schools — Marquette (Mich.); Transportation — Marquette (Mich.); Tuberculosis — Marquette (Mich.) |
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Dr. A. J. Janis
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Paul Jalkanen. 20 Jul 1972
Inclusive dates: 1930s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Houghton County, MI; Atlantic Mine, MI; Nisula, MI; Mrs. Hogback
Subjects: Community life — Houghton County (Mich.); Ethnic groups — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Finnish Americans — Houghton County (Mich.); Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Great Depression Medical care — Houghton County (Mich.); Mining corporations — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Physicians — Houghton County (Mich.); Obstetrics; Childbirth; House Calls |
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Elma (Mrs. George A.) Jarvin
Born 1920, 10th Ave. E, Hibbing MN |
| Interviewed by: Douglas Ollila. 8 Aug 1973 |
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Laina (Malila) Johnson |
Interviewed by: Heino “Hap” Puotinen. 12 Aug 1973 in Johnson’s home in Mass, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Mass, MI; Wainola, MI; St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Subjects: Communism — Mass (Mich.); Community life — Mass (Mich.); Family — History; Finnish Americans — Mass (Mich.); Medical care — Mass (Mich.); Recreation — Mass (Mich.); Religious life — Mass (Mich.) Schools — Wainola (Mich.); Societies — Mass (Mich.); Suomi College; Traditional medicine & cupping — Mass (Mich.) |
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Lempi Johnson
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 2 Oct 1974
Inclusive dates: 1905 – 1970s |
Places and Names: Pelkie, MI. Women’s Guild — Pelkie (Mich.); Eward Groop; Vilho Hanninen; John Junttila; Aarne Juntunen; Arvo Korhonen; Frans Koski; Lauri Pikkusaari; David Samanen; Emil Tervo
Subjects: Church societies — Pelkie (Mich.) Religious life — Pelkie (Mich.); Clergy — Pelkie (Mich.) |
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Walter Johnson
Born 1910
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 11 Aug 1972 in Hancock, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Hancock, MI; Ripley, MI; Quincy Hill; Franklin Township, MI; Herman, MI; Johnson Brothers
Subjects: Business enterprises — Hancock (Mich.); Communism — Hancock (Mich.); Ethnic groups — Hancock (Mich.); Family — History; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Ford Motor Company; Great Depression; Logging — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Lumber camps — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Medical care — Hancock (Mich.); Quincy Mining Company; School boards — Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.); Schools — Hancock (Mich.); Schools — Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.); Upper Peninsula Power Company; World War, 1939-1945; Fights |
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Aina Aliida Jutila |
Interviewed by: Lydia W. Eliason
In Finnish |
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Herman Kallungi
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Harold L. Mathieu. 18 Jul 1973 |
Places and Names: Butte; Montan;, Calumet; Tapiola; Chassell; Worcester Lumber Camps; Swede Pete; Askel; Italian Hall; Black Lung
Subjects: Emigration; Railroads; Log Transportation; Silicosis; baseball; Diseases |
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Anna Kangas |
| Interviewed by: Catherine Kessler. 31 Aug 1973 |
Places and Names: Martha-Mary Society; Portage Canal in winter; White City
Subjects: Finland; Emigration; Diseases; Home Remedies; Midwifery |
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Anna (Larson) Kangas
Born abt 1893, Finland
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Catherine Kessler. 11 Aug 1973
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Hancock, MI; White City, MI; Houghton, MI; Gloria Dei — Hancock, MI
Subjects: Community life — Hancock (Mich.); Emigration and immigration; Finnish Americans — Hancock (Mich.); Holidays — Hancock (Mich.); Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913; Medical care — Hancock (Mich.); Recreation — Hancock (Mich.); Religious life — Hancock (Mich.); Schools — Finland; Suomi College; Traditional medicine; Cupping |
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Bertha Kangas; Denise Gray; Mrs. Funk.
Mrs. Gray born 1897, Watton, Mich. |
Interviewed by: Swande Godell. 12 Aug 1976
Inclusive dates: 1900s-1930s |
Places and Names: Watton, MI; Chassell, MI; Watton School; Chassell School
Subjects: Chassell (Mich.); Rural education; Watton (Mich.); Negaunee (Mich.) |
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Everett and Rachel Kangas |
Interviewed by: D.E.B. March 28, 1978
Inclusive dates: 1920s-1930s |
| Subjects: Iron County (Mich.) — History; Communist Party of America; Congress of Industrial Organizations; Industrial Workers of the World; Labor unions; Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union; IWW |
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Matt Kangas
Born in Jacobsville, Mich. |
Interviewed by: (Interviewee’s Grandson). June 27, 1978 in Interviewee’s home in Chassell, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s-1940s |
Places and Names: Jacobsville, MI; Hancock, MI; Boston Location, MI; Suomi College; Isle Royale Mine; Finnish Lutheran Book Concern
Subjects: Boston Location (Mich.); Cobalt (Ont.); Emigration and immigration; Food–Drying; Food preservation; Hancock (Mich.); Home remedies; Houghton (Mich.); Isle Royale Mine (Mich.); Jacobsville (Mich.); Mining accidents; Personal History; Rural education; Suomi Synod |
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Hilda (Tauriainen) Karinen
Born 1893 |
| Interviewed by: (interviewer unknown) |
Places and Names: Otter Lake, MI; Pelkie, MI; Chassell, MI; Houghton, MI; Alaska; Tapiola, MI. Askel School, Sturgeon River, Otter Lake; Tapiola
Subjects: Chassell (Mich.); Finnish Americans; Finnish language; Gardening–Michigan–Upper Peninsula; Pelkie (Mich.); Sauna; Tapiola (Mich.); Yogurt |
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Elmina Karjala
Born 1893 |
Interviewed by: Armstrong, Helen. November 6, 1976 in Interviewee’s Home in Tamarack Mills, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s-1940s |
| Subjects: Bread baking; Cheese making; Coffee breaks; Ethnic relations; Finnish Americans Food preservation; Gardening–Michigan–Upper Peninsula; Knitting; Rural education; Sauna; Tatting; Weaving; Wool dyeing |
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Mrs. Isaac Karjala
Born abt 1893, Hubbell, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Arbutus Bleise. 19 Nov 1973
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Hubbell, MI; Dover-Oneco Location; Tamarack Mills, Dollar Bay; Torch Lake, MI; Dover School
Subjects: Business enterprises — Hubbell (Mich.); Community life — Hubbell (Mich.); Community life — Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.); Epidemics — Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.); Farming — Hubbell (Mich.); Hobbies & crafts — Women; Housing — Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.) Medical care — Hubbell (Mich.); Recreation — Hubbell (Mich.); Religious life — Hubbell (Mich.); Rural schools — Hubbell (Mich.); Schools — Dollar Bay (Mich.); Shipping — Great Lakes (North America); Transportation — Hubbell (Mich.) |
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Julia Karkanen
Born abt 1920
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Armstrong, Helen. 11 Oct 1976 in Karkanen’s home in Snake River, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
| Subjects: Blood pancakes/sausage; Cooking, Finnish — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Family — History; Finnish Americans — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Hobbies & crafts — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Holidays, Finnish — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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Ina (Niemi) Karni
Born in South Dakota
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Ollila, Douglas. 20 Jul 1973 in Cook, Minn.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Cokato, MN; Bendon, ND; South Dakota; North Dakota; Cook, MN; St. Louis County School system; Laapala
Subjects: Alcohol — Cook (Minn.); Community life — Belden (N.D.) Community life — Cook (Minn.); Diseases; Ethnic groups — North Dakota; Family — History; Farming — Cook (Minn.); Finnish Americans; Great Depression; Laestadianism — Minnesota; Laestadianism — North Dakota; Nursing — Cook (Minn.); Political participation — Cook (Minn.); Silicosis — Minnesota; Socialism — North Dakota; Traditional medicine |
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Charles Keifer
Born 21 Apr 1878, Lake Linden, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Jalkanen, Paul. 9 Aug 1972
Inclusive dates: 1880s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Lake Linden, MI; Calumet, MI. Grand Theatre — Lake Linden (Mich.); Gregorie; Bosch, Joseph;
Subjects: Alcohol — Lake Linden (Mich.); Anecdotes — Lake Linden (Mich.); Bars (Drinking establishments) — Lake Linden (Mich.); Brothels — Lake Linden (Mich.); Brothels — Lake Linden (Mich.); Business enterprises — Lake Linden (Mich.); Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Community life — Lake Linden (Mich.); Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Copper mines and mining — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Courtship — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Courtship — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Family — History Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; Family — History; Farming — Lake Linden (Mich.); Fires — Lake Linden (Mich.); Fourth of July celebrations — Lake Linden (Mich.); Great Depression; Marriage — Lake Linden (Mich.); Pioneers — Lake Linden (Mich.); Prohibition; Real property — Lake Linden (Mich.); Recreation — Lake Linden (Mich.); Theaters — Lake Linden (Mich.); Traditional medicine |
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Michael Kelly
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Jalkanen, Paul. 1 Aug 1972 |
| Subjects: Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 boarding houses; church; Depression; Dodgeville; Family — History; home remedies; Isle Royal Mine; mining conditions Prohibition; Saloons; Temperance Halls; unions |
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Hugo Kemppainen; Sam McClung
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Loukinen, Michael. 8 Dec 1975 |
| Subjects: First Apostolic Lutheran Church |
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Walerus Kero
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Loukinen, Michael. 4 Dec 1975 |
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John Keto
Born 1880, Vaasa, Finland |
Interviewed by: (interviewer unknown). July 19, 1973
Inclusive dates: 1900s – |
| Subjects: Calumet (Mich.); Copper mining; Finnish Americans; Painesdale (Mich.); Strikes–1910-1920; Suomi Synod; Temperance–United States–Societies–History; Trimountain (Mich.) |
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Joseph Kezele; Willard Foremen
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Anderson, Wallace. 1 Aug 1974 |
| Subject terms: Copper mines and Mining; United States. Work Projects Administration; Mining corporations, Livestock; Bar fights; Clark Mine |
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Ida King |
| Interviewed by: Ralph Jalkanen |
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Jane King
Born in Excelsior Location, Ishpeming, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Keith King. 28 Jun 1973
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Ishpeming, MI; Marquette, MI
Subjects: Automobiles; Fires — Ishpeming (Mich.); Mine accidents — Ishpeming (Mich.); Mines and mining — Ishpeming (Mich.); Picnics — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Roads — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Schools — Ishpeming (Mich.); Transportation — Ishpeming (Mich.) |
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Amanda Kivisaari
Born in Lapua, Finland |
Interviewed by: (interviewer unknown). 10 Aug 1973.
In Finnish
Inclusive dates: 1800 – |
Places and Names: Lapua; Alder, Minnesota; John Kivisaari; John Wargelin; Pastor Lepisto
Subjects: Alcohol; Childhood; Education; Emigration and immigration; Language & lifestyles; Leisure; Medical care; Religion; Societies |
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Mrs. Hugo Klemetti
Transcript |
| Interviewed by: Eero Ranta. 22 Jul 1973 |
Places and Names: Electric Park; North Star Hall
Subjects: Family — History |
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Louis Koepel
Born 18 Mar 1909, Beacon Hill, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 31 Jul 1972 in Quincy Smelter office, Hancock, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – |
Places and Names: Freda, MI; Beacon Hill, MI; Painesdale, MI; Hubble, MI. Champion Mill — Freda; White Pine; Jeffers High School
Subjects: Automobiles; Copper mines and mining — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Great Depression; Medical care — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Mines and mining — Montana; Political participation — Hubbell (Mich.); Recreation — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Religious life — Beacon Hill (Mich.); Religious life — Hubbell (Mich.); Schools — Beacon Hill (Mich.); Schools — Painesdale (Mich.); Societies — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Tourism — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Winter — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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Edith Armida (Laine) Koivisto
Born 1881, Finland
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Douglas Ollila. 3 Aug 1973 in Hibbing, Minn.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Hibbing, MN; Duluth, MN; Työväen Opisto
Subjects: Artists, Finnish-American; Cooperative societies — Hibbing (MN); Family — History; Finnish Americans — Minnesota; Industrial Workers of the World — Minnesota; Arvid Koivisto, 1886-1964; Edith Koivisto, 1881-1981; Leo Laukki; Societies — Hibbing (Minn.); Work People’s College (Duluth, Minn.) |
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Eva Juliana (Koski) Koopikka
Born in Kearsarge, Mich.
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Helen Armstrong. 11 Oct 1976 in Koopikka family home in Kearsarge, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Kearsarge, Mich; Kaleva Hall
Subjects: Christmas; Cooking, Finnish — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Crocheting; Hobbies & Crafts; Knitting; Rag rugs — Michigan — Upper Peninsula; Rugs — Finland; Ryijy; Weaving; Christmas traditions; Joulupukki |
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Aily (Elo) Koski
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Douglas Ollila. 8 Aug 1973 in Duluth, MN
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Virginia, MN; Duluth, MN; Wolf, MN; Cherry, MN; St. Louis County, MN; Alpena Mine; Wirehouse Lumber Co.; W.W. Salmi
Subjects: Community Life — St. Louis County (Minn.); Community Life — Virginia (Minn.); Family — History; Iron Ranges — Minnesota Marxism — Minnesota; Rural Schools — St. Louis County (Minn.); Schools; Socialism — Finnish Americans; Socialism — Minnesota; St. Louis County (Minn.); Steel Strike, Minnesota, 1916; Teaching; Työmies Society (U.S.) |
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Ernie Koski
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 26 June 1973 in Työmies Eteenpäin Publishing Co.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Ironton, MN; Hibbing, MN; Orr, MN; Muskegon, MI; Ontonagon, MI; Astoria, OR; Ironwood, MI; Moscow, Soviet Union; Cloquet Lumber Co.; Continental Motor Works; Oliver Mining Co.; Työmies Eteenpäin
Subjects: Blacksmiths, Finnish American; Community Life — Orr (Minn.); Cooperative Societies; Distilling, Illicit — Minnesota; Education; Family — History; Lumber Camps — Minnesota; Socialism; Soviet Union; Työmies Publishing Company; Työmies Society (U.S.); Working Conditions; World Peace Congress, 1965 World War, 1939-1945 — Finland |
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Saima (Juntunen) Koski
Born 18100, Oskar, Mich. |
Interviewed by: Helen Armstrong. October 15, 1976 in Interviewee’s home in Hancock, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s-1930s |
Places and Names: Oskar, MI; Contains: 3 recipes from Saima Koski: Nisu, Pannukakku, Hot milk cake
Subjects: Coffee breaks; Farm Life; Finnish Americans; Finnish cooking; Food Preservation; Gardening–Michigan–Upper Peninsula; Home remedies; logging; Recipes; Oskar (Mich.); Weaving |
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Richard Koski |
Interviewed by: Heino “Hap” Puotinen. 19 July 1972 in Koski’s Home, Ontonagon County
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Ontonagon, MI; Adventure Mine
Subjects: Automobiles — Model T Ford; Boardinghouses; Emigration and Immigration; Ethnic groups — Michigan; Farming — Michigan; Labor Unions; Lumber Camps — Upper Peninsula (Mich.) |
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Mrs. Paulina Kugler; Mathilda Eisermann; Minnie Nykanen; Ms. Lenora Wubbena; Mrs. Helen Popke |
| Interviewed by: Jim Kurtti |
| Places and Names: Bruce Crossing, Mich. |
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Cecilia Kuitanen
Born 1895, St. Petersburg, Russia
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Adrian Niemi. 16 Nov 1974 in Ely Bloomenson Nursing Home, Ely, Minn.
Inclusive dates: 1890s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Ely, MN; Whitton, MN; Minot, ND; Pioneer Mine
Subjects: Boardinghouses; Clock and Watch Making; Communities — Finnish American; Community Life — Minnesota; Cooperative Societies Emigration and Immigration; Lumber; Mining — Ely (Minn.); Sauna — Minnesota |
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Mrs. Kuntz; Joe Courchaine; Mrs. Latendresse
Born 9 Sept. 1891, Portage Twp, Mich. |
Interviewed by: (interviewer unknown). 1975 in Chassell, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1890s – 1940s |
Places and Names: Chassell, MI; Worcester Lumber Company
Subjects: Acetylene lamps; Chassell (Mich.); Community life; Dairy farming; Farm equipment; Farming; Farming; Franco Americans; Medical care Physicians; Priests; Rural schools; Teachers; Threshing |
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Wilbert Kuopus
Transcript |
Interviewed by: Anderson, Wallace 17 Jul 1972 in Kuopus’ home in Mohawk, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1960s |
Places and Names: Calumet, MI; Mohawk, MI; Bete Gris, MI; Keweenaw County, MI; A.L. Heideman
Subjects: Assault and Battery; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Education; Home Remedies; Quarries and quarrying; Rural Schools — Keweenaw County (Mich.); Rural Schools — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); “Scabs”; Trapping |
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Leonard Lahti |
Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 29 Oct 1973
Inclusive dates: 1930s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Amasa, MI; Duluth Furs & Hides; Schubert Fur Co.; Mass & Stephen; “The Waltons”; Conservation Dept.; Baraga, MI
Subjects: Beaver Trapping; Community Life — Michigan; Coyote Trapping; Fishing; Fox Trapping; Fur Trade; Fur; Hides and Skins; Poaching Small Game Hunting; Teaching — Michigan — Keweenaw County; Television; Trapping — Equipment and Supplies; Trapping — Michigan; Winchester Firearms |
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Leonard and Esther Lahti |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 3 Aug 1973 in The Lahti home in Herman, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Iron River; Lännen Suometar; Työmies; Industrialisti; Osuus Toiminta Lehti; Valvoja
Subjects: Cooperative societies; Ethnic Conflict; Ethnic Groups; Ethnic Press — United States Farming; Logging; Logging — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Logging camps; Lumber camps |
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Paul Lantto
Born 19 Apr 1888, Pudasjärvi, Finland |
Interviewed by: Paul Jalkanen. 18 July 1973
Inclusive dates: 1900s – |
Places and Names: Gay, MI; Ontonagon, MI
Subjects: Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago, Ill.) Church; Communism; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Dance parties; Emigration and immigration; Great Depression; Paper mills — Ontonagon (Mich.); Suomi College; Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Wages; World War, 1914-1918 |
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Evert Larsen |
Interviewed by: Michael Luokinen. 29 July 1973 in driving in Larsen’s truck in Pelkie, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1910s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Pelkie, MI; Chassell, MI; Houghton Lumber Company
Subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments); Communism — Michigan — Pelkie; Community Life; Corduroy roads Dance Halls; Dances; Ethnic Groups; Gambling; Log Transportation; Logging; Logging — Michigan; Lumber Camps; Meat — Preservation; Medicine; Poaching; Sawmills — Michigan; Timber; Tonics (Medicinal preparations) |
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Amanda (Wiltinen) Larson |
Interviewed by: Elma Ranta. 15 Oct 1974
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Negaunee; Lawson; Marquette, MI; Alger County, MI; Marquette, MI; Northern Michigan University; Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co.
Subjects: Education; Family — History; Northern Michigan University; Rural Schools — Michigan — Alger County; Teaching; Voting |
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Hilder and Evelyn Larson |
Interviewed by: Elaine Loukinen. 26 Nov 1973 in Pelkie, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Calumet, MI; Laurium, MI; Pelkie, MI; Baraga, MI
Subjects: Berries; Community Life; Confirmation — Study and teaching; Corduroy Roads; Ethnic Groups; Ethnic Press; Finnish Americans; Floods; Forest Fires; Forest Fires; French-Canadians — United States; High School; Music; Picnics — Michigan; Porcupines; Rural Schools; Swedish Americans |
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Kaarle H. Lehtinen
Born 27 Feb 1892 in Kaukola, Finland |
Interviewed by: Les Niemi. 15 Dec 1983 in Newport, N.H.
In Finnish
Inclusive dates: 1892 – |
Places and Names: New Port, NH
Subjects: Aging; Business; Education; Emigration and immigration; Endowments Labor; Leisure; Mining; Religion |
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Don Lehto; Earnest Heikkinen |
Interviewed by: Michael Luokinen. 3 Aug 1973
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Pelkie, MI; Worcester Lumber Company; Henry Jasper; Alston Mill
Subjects: Bears; Beggars; Blueberries; Chores; Community Life; Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich., 1913-1914; Copper mines and mining — Accidents; Dairy Farming; Ethnic Groups; Farm equipment; Farm life — Pelkie (Mich.); Farming — Pelkie (Mich.); Farming — Pelkie (Mich.); Forest Fires; Gristmills; Haying equipment; Hunting; Log Transportation; Logging — Michigan; Lumber; Partridges; Peddlers; Pelkie (Mich.); Pelkie Cooperative Society (Pelkie, Mich.); Picnics; Pumping machinery; Rural families — Pelkie (Mich.); Rural Schools; Sauna; Sawmills — Michigan; Stags (Deer); Storytelling; Timber; Trade Schools — Finland; Wolves |
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Waino “Pops” Lehto |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 14 July 1972 in Hancock, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1910s – 1960s |
Places and Names: Hancock, MI; Suomi College; Nikander; Sampo Society
Subjects: Degrees, Academic; Finnish Americans — Hancock (Mich.); Military Music; J. K. (Juho Kustaa) Nikander, 1855-1919; Religion; Sampo Society; Summer Schools Suomi College; Teaching; World War, 1914-1918 |
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Helen (Kruuth) Leiviska |
Interviewed by: Art Puotinen. 26 June 1973
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: New York, NY; Plummer, MN; Karelia; Soviet Union. Finnish Socialist Federation; Ku Klux Klan; Työmies-Eteenpäin; Franklin D. Roosevelt
Subjects: Communism; Cooperation — Societies; Cooperative Housing Foundation (U.S.); Cooperative Societies; Dances; Emigration and Immigration Franklin D. Roosevelt and the era of the New Deal; Karelia (Russia); Ku Klux Klan; Socialism; Temperance — Societies; Työmies Publishing Company; Women Communists; Women socialists |
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Harold Lent; Mrs. McDonald |
Interviewed by: Paul Jalkanen. 26 July 1972 in Hancock, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1850s – 1960s |
Places and Names: Cornwall, England; Wausau, WI; Hancock, MI; Quincy Mining Co.
Subjects: Alcohol Burglary — Hancock (Mich.); Cable cars (Streetcars); Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich. 1913-1914; Copper Mines and Mining — Hancock (Mich.); Education; Ethnic Groups; Family — History; Family; Great Depression; Home Remedies; Lead Mines and Mining; School Discipline; Taxation; Teaching — Hancock (Mich.); Teaching; Theater — Calumet (Mich.) |
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Mrs. Sigrid Lepisto
Born 17 Dec 1897 |
Interviewed by: Adrian Niemi. 4 Dec 1974 in Interviewee’s home in Duluth, MN
Inclusive dates: 1890s – 1960s |
Places and Names: Newberry, MI; Duluth, MN
Subjects: Choirs (Music); Church; Clergy; Community Life; Ethnic Groups; Family — History Finnish Americans — Newberry (Mich.); Finnish Americans; Proverbs; Teaching |
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John Litsenberger |
| Interviewed by: Louise Padberg; Raymond Roberts. 12 Aug 1974 |
Places and Names: Copper Falls; Eagle Harbor; White City; Isle Royal; Eagle River
Subjects: Blueberries |
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Martin E. Loukinen |
Interviewed by: Michael Loukinen. 20 Dec 1973
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1930s |
Places and Names: Princess Point, MI; Stern-Culver Lumber Co.; Quincy Mine
Subjects: Community Life — Princess Point (Mich.); Copper mines and mining — Hancock (Mich.); Discipline of Children Ethnic Groups; Family — History; Farming — Princess Point (Mich.); Fishing; Home Remedies; Hunting; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919; Logging — Upper Peninsula (Mich.); Lumber Camps; Midwifery — Princess Point (Mich.); Midwifery; Physicians; Princess Point (Mich.); Proverbs; Reindeer herding; Traditional Medicine |
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Nick Lukkarila
Born 12 Nov 1898 |
Interviewed by: Marybeth Stadius. 13 July 1973 in interviewee’s home in Mass, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Mass, MI
Subjects: Anecdotes Arson; Bars (Drinking establishments) — Mass (Mich.); Command and control at fires; Communities; Community Life — Mass (Mich.); Fires; Mass (Mich.); Storytelling |
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Nick Lukkarila |
| Interviewed by: (interviewer unknown) |
Places and Names: Rockland Masonic Lodge
Subjects: Communism — Mass (Mich.); Community Life — Mass (Mich.); Cupping; Distilling, Illicit; Ethnic Conflict; Ethnic Groups; Family — History; Freemasonry; Home remedies; Lutherans, Finnish; Picnics; Poaching; Sports — Mass (Mich.); Sports; Traditional Medicine |
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Henry Luokkanen
Born 1897, Taivalkoski, Finland |
Interviewed by: Wallace Anderson. 6 Aug 1973 in interviewee’s home between Eagle River and Eagle Harbor, Mich.
Inclusive dates: 1900s – 1970s |
Places and Names: Mohawk, MI; Fulton, MI; Ahmeek, MI; Ahmeek Mine
Subjects: Ahmeek (Mich.); Bars (Drinking establishments); Cemeteries; Copper Mines and Mining — Ahmeek (Mich.); Copper Miners’ Strike, Mich, 1913-1914; Copper mines and mining — Accidents; Cost and standard of living; Cupping; Emigration and Immigration; Ethnic Groups; Gunfights Shoemakers; Strikebreakers; Traditional Medicine |