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Files of Detroit News conservation editor Albert Stoll and director of public relations Lee A. White. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous papers relating to the Detroit News' campaign to make Isle Royale a national park and to secure land for it; manuscript and notes of an article by Martha M. Bigelow, 1955.

The collections consists of the files of Detroit News conservation editor Albert Stoll and director of public relations Lee A. White who directed the Isle Royale campaign. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, speeches, and other materials relating to Isle Royale and to its importance to the state, and to the effort to make the island a national park.

Stereoscopic photos from a scientific expedition to Michigan's upper peninsula and Lake Superior in 1868 organized by Albert E. Foote, assistant in the University of Michigan Chemistry Laboratory; includes views of the expedition's boats and camps, natural features including the Pictured Rocks and waterfalls, mining operations, Indians, ships, and a lighthouse.

Stereograph views of the expedition's boats and camps, natural features including the Pictured Rocks and waterfalls, mining operations, Indians, ships, and a lighthouse. The original set of cards apparently included 127 numbered items. There are twenty-four items missing form the Bentley's collection. the collection also includes several photographic prints, some of which appear to be reprints from the cards, and some note about the expedition and the collection made by F. Clever Bald, director of the Michigan Historical Collections, about 1950