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Fox Island Lighthouse Association records, 1875-2017

0.4 linear feet — 2.4 GB (online)

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The Fox Island Lighthouse Association is a non-profit organization founded to preserve the South Fox Island light station in northern Lake Michigan. The collection contains both paper and digital records, and consists of materials created or collected by the association as part of their efforts to preserve the light station.

The collection contains both paper and digital records and consists of materials created or collected by the Fox Island Lighthouse Association as part of their efforts to preserve the South Fox Island light station. Collected material includes copies of U.S. Lighthouse Service and Coast Guard records from the National Archives, including photographs. The collection also includes the association's newsletters, newspaper articles about the association or the light station, a historic structures report developed for the association by U.P. Engineers & Architects, and a series of oral history interviews of former lighthouse personnel, conducted by association members.

The Fox Island Lighthouse Association records are organized into four series: Organizational Records, Collected Research Materials, Oral Histories, and Visual Materials. All but the Visual Materials series contain both print and digital records, and some documents exist in both formats.

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Collected Research Materials, 1875-1971, 2009-2010

3 folders, 786 MB (online)

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The Collected Research Materials series contains copies of photographs, maps, diagrams, correspondence, and other documents gathered in researching the history of the light station, its inhabitants, and its structures. Much of the material was copied or scanned at the National Archives in Chicago. It includes records from the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Lighthouse Service as well as material about or from the lighthouse keepers themselves.