Michigan Tech researchers have been awarded $240,000 to uncover, contextualize, and make widely accessible a rare collection of 40,000 employee records of the Calumet & Hecla Copper Mining Company. The research team, which consists of Sarah Scarlett, assistant professor of history, Lindsay Hiltunen, university archivist, and Allison Neely, archivist will digitize and generate descriptive information for a collection that represents the labor experience in the country’s most influential copper region.
Next, the team will create rich contextual and spatial linkages through time and space by integrating the employee records into the Keweenaw Time Traveler (www.keweenawhistory.com) using the combined might of the Michigan Technological University Archives and Geospatial Research Facility.
