The Escanaba Public Library has an extensive Michigan collection containing
books, magazines and videos about our Great Lakes State. The history
section has a special emphasis on the Upper Peninsula. In addition, the collections of the Delta County Genealogical Society
are housed at the library. Their materials are a rich resource for
those researching family history, especially for those whose family is
from Delta County.
Library patrons also have access to digitized
historical images from the Upper Peninsula through Upper Peninsula Digitization Center Collection, as well as access
to historical resources of communities throughout Michigan
at MeL
Michigana.
Listed
here is a sampling of the materials you’ll find at the Library, with a
focus on Delta County.
MICHIGAN
Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State by Willis F. Dunbar
Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of
More than Five Thousand Past and present Michigan Communities by
Walter Romig
Michigan Through the Centuries by Willis Dunbar
(non-circulating)
Michigan History Magazine 1917-current
(non-circulating)
Michigan Pioneer & Historical Society
Collections 1874-1929 (non-circulating)
UPPER
PENINSULA
A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its
People: Its Mining, Lumber and Agricultural History by Alvah L. Sawyer
(published in 1911) (non-circulating)
History of the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan (published in 1883)
A Land Apart: A
History Anthology of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (non-circulating)
Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan
(published in 1895) (non-circ.)
Michigan Ghost Towns of the Upper
Peninsula by R.L. Dodge
A Most Superior Land: Life in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan by Russell McKee
An Outline History of
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula by Russell Magnaghi (non-circ.)
Superior Heartland: A Backwoods History by C. Fred Rydholm
The Way It Happened: Settling Michigan’s Upper Peninsula by
Russel M. Magnaghi
DELTA
COUNTY
Bark River Centennial, 1871-1971
The Century Book
1863-1963 Escanaba
Dreams of Beaver Creek by Charles E.
Dedic (non-circulating)
Escanaba Michigan U.S.A.: The Iron Port of
the World by Walter Nursey (non-circ.)
An Ethnic History of
Delta County
Gladstone Centennial History 1887-1987
A History of the Garden Peninsula by Thomas E. Jacques
Marble Arms: A History of a Gladstone Manufacturing Company
Our Heritage: Garden Peninsula 1840-1980
Our Heritage:
Rapid River, Michigan
A Page from the Old Calendar: Tales of
Events, Personalities and History of Escanaba and Vicinity by Arol
Beck Reflections of the Past: A Pictorial History of Delta, Schoolcraft
& Northern Menominee Counties
A Souvenir of Delta County, Michigan
Station in the Forest by Norma Colburn Terrien (Cornell area)
The Story of Ford River Township
ETHNIC
GROUPS
Ethnic Groups in Michigan
Finnish American Lives
(video)
Indian Names in Michigan by Virgil Vogel
Miners,
Merchants, and Midwives: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Italians by
Russell Magnaghi
The People of Michigan by George Graff
People of the Three Fires: The Ottawa, Potawatomi and Ojibway of
Michigan by James Clifton, George Cornell, and James McClurken
Tradition Bearers (video) (Finnish Americans)
Scandinavians in Michigan by Christian T. Feddersen
U.P.
INDUSTRIES & OCCUPATIONS
Good Man in the Woods
(video)
History of Lumbering in Delta County by Carl J. Sawyer
History of Sawmills in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan by Carl
J. Sawyer
When Pine Was King by Lewis C. Reimann
Many
of the books on Michigan and Upper Peninsula history listed above have
information on farming, logging, and mining industries.
The
Library maintains vertical files on Escanaba, Delta County and the Upper
Peninsula, as well as newspaper indexes and historical newspapers on
microfilm. Ask at the reference desk for assistance in using these
files.
