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LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

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BUSINESS & ORGANIZATIONS

Alpena & Local Business Ephemera
Alpena City Directories 

Alpena County Library:  Scrapbooks
Alpena County Library:  Shoestring
Alpena Grange 1323 Collection

Alpena National Bank Collection

Alpena News Collection:  Businesses [ANC-2]
Alpena News Collection:  Huron Portland Cement, National Gypsum, Lafarge [ANC-16]
Alpena News Collection:  Organizations [ANC-1]

Besser Museum Collection 3:  Chamber of Commerce

Fletcher Collection:  Land Contracts
Eddy Engineering Collection
Hal H. Smith Collection:  Turtle Lake Club

Haltiner Collection:  [Jesse] Besser Museum [of Northeast Michigan] [HC-7] 
Haltiner Collection:  Michigan Museum Association [HC-1]  
Haltiner Collections:  Thunder Bay Theatre [HC-6 & 6a]

Harris / Richardson Collection
Huron Portland Cement Company Collection

Kujawa Collection:  Besser Company
Kujawa Collection:  Historic Photographs

LaCross Boat Works, Inc. Collection
McIver Collection:  Tailor & Dry Cleaning Business
Micketti Collection:  D. & M. Railroad
Micketti Collecton:  Michigan Limestone
Nethercut Collection
Rhea LaCross Collection:  Dziesinski Pharmacy
Stephen D. Tongue Collection:  Lafarge Corp.

CHURCHES

Catholic Church Records, Alpena, MI (1864 – 1925)

Introduction:  This is a chronological extraction of Catholic Church Records from 1864 to 1925.  St Bernard Church, the only Catholic Church until 1883, contains the earliest extracted baptisms, including godparents, marriages, and burials.  St Anne (French) and St Mary’s Churches (Polish) began in 1883.  Baptisms 100 years or older were allowed to be included, so they only are shown until 1894 for St Bernard and 1896 for St Anne.  St Mary only allowed burials to be extracted.  The original records were mostly in Latin or French.  When possible, the page of the original record is indicated.

1864-1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894,1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925

St. Anne Church Records
St. Bernard Church: Baptisms, Burials, Marriages
St. Mary’s Funeral Records

Alpena News Collection: Churches [ANC-6]
Church Ephemera
Grace Lutheran Church Scrapbooks
Leer Church
Micketti Collection: Friends Church

Available On Microfilm

First Baptist Church Records, First congregational Church Records, Grace Lutheran Church Records, Hope Lutheran Church Records, Hubbard Lake United Methodist Church Records, Immanuel Lutheran Church Records, Ossineke United, Methodist Church Records, Ripley Baptist Church Records, St. Andrew Lutheran Church Records, St. John Lutheran Church Records, St. Mary’s Rectory Church Records, St. Matthew Lutheran Church Records, St. Paul Lutheran Church Records, Temple Beth-el Church Records, Trinity Episcopal Church Records, United Presbyterian Church Records, Wilson United Methodist Church Records

CITY DIRECTORIES

1883: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4-Ads, A-B, B-C, D-F, G-H, I-L, M, M-P, P-S, S-W, W-Z, Part 15-County, Part 16-County, Part 17-Business, Part 18-Business
1887-1888: Index, Streets, Societies, City A-B, City C-D, City E-H, City H-L, City M, City N-P, City P-S, City T-Z, Business,County, Business Ads
1889-1890: Index, Streets, Government, City A-B, City B-C, City D-F, City G-H, City I-L, City L-M, City M-P, City P-S, City S-W, City W-Business, Business
1891-1892:Index, Government, City A-B, City B-C, City C-F, City G-H, City I-L, City L-M, City M-P, City P-S, City S-W, City W-Business, Business
1893-1894: Index, Government, City A-B, City B-D, City D-H, City H-L, City L-M, City N-R, City S-W, City Y-Business, Business
1895-1896: Index, Government, City A-B, City C-E, City F-I, City J-L, City M-N, City O-R, City S-W, City Y-Business, Business, County A-R, County R-Z
1897-1898: Index, Streets, Government, City A-B, City C-D, City E-H, City H-L, City L-M, City M-R, City R-W, City W-Business, Business, County A-J, County J-T, County T-Z
1899-1900: Index, Streets, Government-City A, City B-C, City D-H, City H-L, City L-M, City M-R, City R-W,
City W-Business, Business, County A-L, County L-Z
1901-1902: Index, Government, City A-B, City B-D, City D-G, City H-K, City L-M, City M-P, City Q-S, City T-Z, Business 1, Business 2, County A-L, County L-Z
1903-1904: Index, Government, City A-B, City B-D, City D-H, City H-K, City L-M, City M-O, City P-S, City S-Z, Business 1, Business 2, County A-H, County J-Z
1905-1906: Index, Government, City A, City B-C, City C-F, City G-J, City K-M, City M-O, City P-S, City S-Z, Business 1, Business 2, County A-K, County L-Z
1908: Index, Streets, Government, City A-B, City C-E, City F-H, City H-L, City L-M, City M-P, City P-S, City S-Z, Business 1, Business 2, Business 3, County A-L, County L-Z
1910: Index, Streets, Government, City A-B, City C-F, City F-J, City K-M, City M-P, City P-S, City S-Z, County
1914: Index, Government, Streets 1, Streets 2, City A-C, City C-F, City F-J, City J-M, City M-O, City P-S, City S-Z, Business 1, Business 2, County 1, County 2
1916: Index, Government, Streets 1, Streets 2, City A-C, City C-G, City G-K, City K-M, City M-P, City P-S, City T-Z, Business 1, Business 2, County A-G, County G-S, County S-Z
1920: Index, Government, Streets 1, Streets 2, City A-C, City C-F, City F-J, City J-L, City M-O, City O-S, City S-W, City W-Z, Business 1, Business 2, County

GOVERNMENT

Alpena County Road Commission Collection

Alpena News Collection:  Alcona, County of [ANC-9]
Alpena News Collection:  Alpena, City of [ANC-7]
Alpena News Collection:  Alpena, County of [ANC-8]
Alpena News Collection:  Surrounding Counties [ANC-18]
Alpena News Collection:  Federal [ANC-19]
Alpena News Collection:  Presque Isle, County of [ANC-10]
Alpena News Collection:  State of Michigan [ANC-20]

Nethercut Collection

NEWSPAPERS

Alpena County:
Alpena Argus [Pioneer] (1871-1917) (weekly), Alpena Frolic (1875-1880), Alpena News (1899 – current) , [missing years 1906 – August 1909 and 1911] (daily), Evening Echo [Alpena] (April 1890 – September 1890), Labor Journal [Alpena] (1884-1890) (weekly)

Montmorency County:
Montmorency County Herald – Hillman (1914-1922), Montmorency County Herald – Atlanta (1923-1994), Atlanta Tribune (1903-1913), Hillman Herald (1903-1913), Lewiston Journal (1898-1916)

Presque Isle County:
Presque Isle County News (1901-1913), Millersburg Tribune (Sept. 7, 1900), Onaway Interlake (1902-1905), Onaway Outlook (1900-1939), Onaway News (1939-19720 [missing 1961]

Others:
Cheboygan Tribune (1886-1887), Manistique Democrat (1895-1896)

RECREATION

Alpena Civic Orchestra & Alpena Choral Society Collection
Elks Club Collection
Hal H. Smith Collection:  Turtle Lake Club

Haltiner Collection:  [Jesse] Besser Museum [of Northeast Michigan] [HC -7]
Haltiner Collection:  Michigan Museum Association [HC-1]
Haltiner Collections:  Thunder Bay Theatre [HC-6 & 6a]

Alpena County Library:  Scrapbooks
Alpena County Library:  Shoestring

SCHOOLS

Alpena News Collection:  Schools [ANC-5]
Alpena Vertical File
Brandenburg Collection
Jere Standen Collection
Schools Ephemera
A Century in the Alpena Schools
Alpena County Normal: Life in the rural schools
Thunder Bay Junior High School Collection
Alpena High School Yearbook Collection