Summary Information

Title: Dale Heikkinen Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1900-1997

Creator:

• Heikkinen, Dale

Call Number: Northland Mss 5; PH Northland Mss 5; VHA 478-VHA 481; VHA 976

Quantity: 0.5 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder), 170 photographs, 7 transparencies, and 20 photocopies in 1 archives box and 1 folder, and 5 videorecordings

Repository:

Housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections and the Area Research Center, History Center and Archives, Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections.

Archival Locations:

Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center / Ashland Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Material collected by Dale Heikkinen, mainly relating to his family, especially his father, Leo Heikkinen, an inventor and manufacturer of logging equipment; to the family business, Prentice Hydraulics; and to the history and economic development of Prentice, Wisconsin. Included is a folder of information about George Elliot MacKinnon, a prominent local doctor. There is also genealogical information about the Pokela family (Heikkinen's mother's family) and information about the history and folklore of Finns in Wisconsin, particularly in the Brantwood area.

Note:

Additional materials about the history of Prentice and Brantwood, including locals Stanley Morner (actor Dennis Morgan), sculptor Donal Hord, and naturalist Sigurd Olson, remain in the possession of Dale Heikkinen, Prentice, Wisconsin.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-nort0005

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