The Great Lakes Industrial Archive Established 1987

The Great Lakes Industrial Archive

Industry remembered through the people who built it.

Holdings

18,420

Photographs

Records

7,860

Documents

Records

614

Oral Histories

Records

1,205

Physical Objects

Records

Archival photograph of a factory floor

Research and access

The collections may be consulted.

Photographs, documents, oral histories, and physical objects are held for research. Hours, appointment rules, and reproduction policy have not been supplied here; write to request access.

The archive’s work is to keep the record usable: 18,420 photographs, 7,860 documents, 614 oral histories, 1,205 objects.

Cotton-gloved hands holding a factory photograph at a research table

Preservation

Mission

Industry remembered through the people who built it.

The Great Lakes Industrial Archive preserves documents, photographs, oral histories, and physical artifacts related to Great Lakes manufacturing history. Established in 1987, it treats those records as evidence of labour, not as decoration for industry.

Preservation here means keeping names, places of work, and the material record available to the public that still lives among the lakes.

Visit / Contact

Ask to see the record.

A street address and public hours have not been supplied. Inquiries may be directed through the contact request.

Est. 1987 · four collections