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Milwaukee Mss D
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Part 1 (Milwaukee Mss D, PH Milwaukee Mss D, PH 2883): Original Collection, 1881-19466.5 c.f. (11 archives boxes, 3 packages, and 8 separate volumes) and 10 photographs The Mariner family papers, as organized in 1964, include manuscripts given by members of the family in two major donations: the records of the National League for Woman's Service in Wisconsin, given by its state chairman, Mrs. John W. Mariner in 1923; and business papers of John W. Mariner and additional papers of the National League for Woman's Service, given by the Mariners' daughter, Mrs. Stanley W. Stone, in 1953. The Original Collection is arranged into two series: JOHN W. MARINER BUSINESS PAPERS and NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR WOMAN'S SERVICE. The BUSINESS PAPERS are those of various companies with which John W. Mariner was associated: the Ontonagon and Brule River Railroad Company of Michigan, the J.J. Hof Land Company of Shawano County, Wisconsin, the Northern Colonization Company, and the Mariner and Kurtz Land Company, the forerunner of the Mariner Realty Company. John W. Mariner held approximately one-fifth of the stock of the Ontonagon and Brule River Railroad Company, when that company was dissolved in 1934. The Ontonagon and Brule River Railroad Company had its origins in the Ontonagon and State Line Railroad Company of Ontonagon County, Michigan. In 1856, the State of Michigan gave this latter company a substantial land grant to aid in the construction of a railroad from Ontonagon to the Wisconsin state line. In 1859, this railroad company was purchased by the Chicago and Northwestern line and its original land grant reverted to the State of Michigan. The Ontonagon and Rule River Railroad Company was formed under the laws of the State of Michigan in 1880 with capital of one million dollars divided into ten thousand shares. The company was planned as a land holding company and finally in 1905 it received from the State of Michigan land patents for the former land holdings of the Ontonagon and State Line Railroad. In 1927, the company held approximately three thousand acres of relatively valueless property, and by 1929, the directors voted to dissolve the company and divide the assets. This was officially completed in 1934. John W. Mariner was also very active in the affairs of the J.J. Hof Land Company of Milwaukee, and later of Sobieski, Wisconsin. The J.J. Hof Land Company had been organized in Milwaukee in 1889 by John J. Hof, Henry Herman, William Mariner, and Ephraim Mariner. In an effort to attract Polish emigrants to settle on their lands in Shawano County, the J.J. Hof Land Company established the towns of Sobieski, Pulaski, and Krakow. The company of Mariner and Kurtz succeeded the J.J. Hof Land Company, when the latter was dissolved in 1922. J.N. Kurtz and John W. Mariner also formed the Northern Colonization Company, of which Kurtz was president and Mariner was secretary. In 1933 both of these companies, Mariner and Kurtz and the Northern Colonization Company, were united to form the Mariner Land Company of Milwaukee. John W. Mariner's business papers are organized according to companies. All correspondence has been arranged by years and months. Also included is one package of maps relating to the various land holdings of the J.J. Hof Land Company in Shawano County, Wisconsin. During World War I, Mrs. John W. Mariner served as state chairman of the NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR WOMAN'S SERVICE, an unofficial patriotic organization. More than half of the Mariner Family Papers concern the records of this organization. Included are Wisconsin membership lists, minutes of meetings, and reports, but the major portion consists of correspondence with the national office of the League, with local chairman, and with the Council of Defense, the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, War Savings Committee, and other state groups with which the League cooperated. The photographs include images of the J.J. Hof Land Company office, Sobieski, Wisconsin, circa 1895, with people posed outside; an image of the Sobieski railroad depot; and images related to the National League for Woman's Service, circa 1918.
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Series: John W. Mariner Business Papers
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Volume
7
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Herman and Mariner, ledger, 1887-1891
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J.J. Hof Land Company
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Volume
3
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Journal, 1881-1932
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Ledgers
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Volume
1
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1883-1932
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Volume
2
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1887-1899
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Volume
4
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Plat book, 1887-1942
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J.J. Hof Lumber Company
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Business Papers
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Box
2
Folder
2
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1881-1930
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Box
2
Folder
6
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1889-1912
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Box
2
Folder
5
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Correspondence, 1887-1912
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Box
2
Folder
1
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Minutes, 1889-1917
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Box
3
Folder
1
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Pensaukee Drainage District, 1920-1925
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Box
2
Folder
3
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Towns of Pulaski, Sobieski, and Krakow maps, undated
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Volume
6
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Mariner and Kurtz Land Company journal, 1918-1933
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Volume
5
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Northern Colonization Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ledger, 1900-1933
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Ontonagon and Brule River Railroad Company
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Box
3
Volume
10
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Bank deposits, 1904-1935
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Correspondence
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Box
1
Folder
2
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1892-1928
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Box
1
Folder
4
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1929
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Box
1
Folder
3
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1930-1946
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Box
3
Volume
11
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Journal, 1905-1935
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Box
3
Volume
12
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Legal Case, Canal Company vs. Ontonagon and Brule River Railroad Company, 1881
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Box
1
Folder
1
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Maps, undated
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Box
1
Folder
5
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Miscellaneous papers, 1881-1933
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Stock certificates
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Volume
8
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1913-1927
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Volume
9
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1923-1931
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Box
2
Folder
4
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Property abstracts and papers, 1888-1891
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PH Milwaukee Mss D
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Sobieski photographs, circa 1895, undated
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Milwaukee Mss D
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Series: National League for Woman's Service
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Box
6
Folder
1
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Applications for positions, 1917-1919
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Child Labor Law
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Box
11
Folder
2
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Clippings and pamphlets, 1917-1934
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Box
11
Folder
1
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Correspondence, 1917-1940
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Box
11
Folder
5
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Wisconsin League of Women Voters, 1917-1933
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Christmas Parties
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Box
6
Folder
4
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For Soldiers' and Sailors' Children, 1917
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Box
6
Folder
5
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1918
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Box
6
Folder
3
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Clerical Squad, 1917-1919
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Committees
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Box
6
Folder
2
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Canning Committee, 1917-1919
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Box
6
Folder
6
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Garden Committee and Agriculture, 1917-1918
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Box
6
Folder
8
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Knitting Committee, 1917-1918
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Box
10
Folder
1-3
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Wisconsin War Savings Committee, correspondence, reports, and lists, 1917-1918
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Wisconsin Woman's Liberty Loan Committee
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Box
9
Folder
1
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1917
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Box
9
Folder
2
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1917-1918
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Box
9
Folder
3-5
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1918
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Box
9
Folder
6
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1919
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Liberty Loan Drives, Scrapbooks
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Volume
16
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1917-1918
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Volume
17
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1918-1919
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Volume
15
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1919
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Box
9
Folder
7
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Town and District Workers, 1919
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Box
10
Folder
4
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Wisconsin State Council of Defense, Women's Committee, Correspondence, Reports, and Minutes, 1917-1919
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Box
11
Folder
3-4
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Woman's Victory Loan Committee, Wisconsin County Lists, undated
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Correspondence
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Box
4
Folder
1
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1917
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Box
4
Folder
2-3
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1918
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Box
4
Folder
4
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1919
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Box
5
Folder
4
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War Work Chairmen in Milwaukee, 1917-1919
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Box
5
Folder
4
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War Work Chairmen in Wisconsin Cities, 1917-1919
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Box
5
Folder
1
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A-C
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Box
5
Folder
2
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D-M
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Box
5
Folder
3
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N-Z
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Box
6
Folder
7
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Health Department, 1919
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Membership lists
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Box
8
Folder
3
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1918-1919
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Volume
18
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undated
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Box
8
Folder
3
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Milwaukee County War Fund, 1918-1919
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Box
6
Folder
9
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Milwaukee County War Fund, 1918-1919
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Box
6
Folder
10
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Motor Corps, 1918-1919
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Box
12
Volume
14
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Motor Squad scrapbook, 1918
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Box
6
Folder
11
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Navy Relief Society, 1918-1919
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Box
6
Folder
12
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Nurses Reserve, 1918-1919
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Box
8
Folder
4
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Organizations' Representatives, 1918
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Box
8
Folder
5
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Questionnaires, 1917-1919
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Box
7
Folder
1
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Red Cross, 1917-1918
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Box
5
Volume
20
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Women Red Cross Chairmen, Women's Ward Organization, minutes, 1919
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Box
10
Folder
5
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Reports and minutes, 1917-1919
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Box
12
Volume
13
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Scrapbook, 1917-1919
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Box
8
Folder
1
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Service Registration blanks, 1917-1919
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Box
8
Folder
2
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Milwaukee Downer students, 1917-1919
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Box
7
Folder
2
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Social Service, 1917
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Box
11
Folder
6
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Speeches, 1917-1919
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Volunteer service enrollment blanks, 1917-1919
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Box
7
Folder
5
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A-H
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Box
7
Folder
6
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I-Z
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Box
7
Folder
3
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War camp community service, 1918-1919
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Box
8
Folder
6
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Ward lists, undated
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Box
7
Folder
4
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White elephant sale, 1918
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Box
7
Volume
19
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Scrapbook
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Box
8
Folder
7
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Women's District Councils, undated
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PH 2883
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National League for Woman's Service photographs, circa 1918
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M78-288
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Part 2 (M78-288): Additions, circa 1887-1945
2.0 c.f. (1 record center carton and 2 bound volumes)
: This material deals primarily with the Northern Colonization Company and the Ontonagon and Brule River Railroad Company. It includes ledger books, maps, tax records, minutes of the Ontonagon and Brule River Railroad Company, deeds and other records, circa 1887-1945.
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