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Woman and Two Men Harvesting in June of 1895

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Photo of two men standing among sheaves of grain while a woman is on the harvester drawn by two horses. Pine trees are in the background.

Welcome to Minnich Road

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Description of the collection

We Wish to be Civilized: Ottawa-American Political Contests on the Michigan Frontier

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This ethnohistorical work examines the process of Ottawa adaptation
from a world system perspective. Following the lead of Richard White,
Carol Smith, James Scott, and Sherry Ortner it analyzes the Ottawa mode
of production as a key mechanism by…

Unkown family photo

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This is a photo in front of a house with a large Catalpa tree. There appear to be four men, two of who may be the partners of two of the three women. Two girls are also in the picture. The backside has names, of which Ophelia Fields is the most…

Unknown AME church graduation

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Fifteen children in robes, six in mortarboards stand outside a clapboard structure with an A.M.E Church plaque behind them. There is a very distinctive three-story in the background. Nothing is on the back.

The History of the French-Ottawa Alliance, 1613-1763

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This dissertation seeks to establish the nature of the relationship between the
French and the Ottawa Nation of northern Lake Huron in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. The enquiry is pursued through the study of the Lake Huron…

The Benton Harbor fruit market at Benton Harbor, Mich

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USDA Feasibility Study of Benton Harbor Fruit Market

Tending a Comfortable Wilderness: A History of Agricultural Landscapes on North Manitou Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan

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This project builds upon three previous studies of historic agriculture at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (SBDNL). These have focused on: (1) an overview of the agricultural and settlement history of the two-county SBDNL region; (2) an…