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• A History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (third local volume of a Michigan history set, ca. 1928; for earlier two statewide volumes, see Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes), ed. by George N. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• An Address on the Climate, Soil, Resources, Development, Commerce and Future of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, by Alexander Campbell (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Along the Bowstring or South Shore of Lake Superior, by Julian Ralph (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• The Cinder Pond (New York: H. Holt and Co., c1915), by Carroll Watson Rankin, illust. by Ada Clendenin Williamson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Be-Wa-Bic Country: The Story of the Menominee Iron Range in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (New York: Carlton Press, c1963), by Herbert F. Larson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (third local volume of a Michigan history set, ca. 1928; for earlier two statewide volumes, see Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes), ed. by George N. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Haywire: Growing Up in the Upper Peninsula, 1905-1925 (Escanaba, MI: Photo Offset Print. Co., 1963), by Ira Farrell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Between the Iron and the Pine: A Biography of a Pioneer Family and a Pioneer Town, by Lewis Charles Reimann (page images at loc.gov)

• Men of Progress: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Representative Michigan Men, by Evening News Association (Detroit) (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Michigan Biographies (2 volumes, 1924), by Michigan Historical Commission
  • Volume I (A-K): multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • Volume II (L-Z): multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
• General History of the State of Michigan (Detroit: R. D. S. Tyler and Co., 1873), by Charles R. Tuttle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History, by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)
• The Autobiography of Woodbridge N. Ferris, by Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu)

• A Gallery of Pen Sketches in Black and White of Our Michigan Friends "As We See 'Em.", by Newspaper Cartoonists' Association of Michigan
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of Barry County; With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men (Grand Rapids, MI: Reed-Tangler Co., ca. 1912), by William W. Potter, Ford Hicks, and Edward Butler (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of Herring Lake, With an Introductory Legend, The Bride of Mystery, by John Harris Howard (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• A Century of Conquest, 1852-1952: St. Alphonsus Parish, Dearborn, 1952 (Kingsport, TN: Printed by Kingsport Press, 1952), by Maurice W. Geary (page images at HathiTrust)

• "This is a War for the Utter Extinction of Slavery": The Civil War Letters of James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, Hospital Steward, 1st Michigan Colored Infantry (Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, c2020), by James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, ed. by Robert Beasecker (PDF at gvsu.edu)

• History of Livingston Co. Michigan, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: Everts and Abbott, 1880) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Many Moons: Petoskey, Michigan Centennial, 1852-1952 (Petoskey, MI: Petoskey Public Schools, 1952) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Past and Present of Washtenaw County, Michigan; Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent and Leading Citizens and Illustrious Dead (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. co., 1906), by Samuel W. Beakes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes (2 statewide volumes plus a third local volume that varies per set; third volume in this set dedicated to Washtenaw County; Dayton, OH: National Historical Association, ca. 1924-1926), ed. by George N. Fuller and Byron Alfred Finney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

• Our Golden Jubilarian: Father A. X. M. Sharpe (special issue of the Sacred Heart Guardian; Dearborn, MI: Sacred Heart Parish, 1949) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aunt Sally, or, The Cross the Way of Freedom: A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan (Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858), by Isaac Williams (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Autobiography of Woodbridge N. Ferris, by Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu)

• Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1998), by Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), by Christopher H. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Into the Latter-day Light: An Autobiography (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1929), by John J. Cornish (page images at HathiTrust)

• Giving It All Away: The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Margaret A. Leary (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Bark Covered House, or Back in the Woods Again, by William Nowlin
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • Gutenberg text

• An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
• Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
  • Volume 1 (De Commines et al): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Earl of Clarendon et al): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Charles V et al): multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
• The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• Index to Profile Sketches in New Yorker Magazine (Boston: F. W. Faxon Co., 1946), by Thomas Shuler Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.