Oral Histories
• Coming soon ... Excerpts from professionally conducted interviews, and streaming audio clips.

Contributed Essays
• William G Boales ~ Letter from William G. Boales jr about his father's coming to South Manitou Island. [pdf]
• Bonnie Belmer: A Little Girl Named Mae
• Bonnie Belmer: Heartbreak on South Manitou ~ A Child of the Island Was Lost
• Sandra (Thompson) Black: Thomas And Theodore Thompson (Monograph)
• Sandra (Thompson) Black: Captain Floyd Sigval Thompson (Monograph)
• Myrtle Kelderhouse ~ Experiences of An Island School Teacher
• Sheridan Family History (draft) ~ James Sheridan, Lightkeepers Aaron & Julia Sheridan, and family.
• Manitou Passage Multimedia History ~ Index of Historical Audio and Video

Personal Photograph Collections
• Boales/Riker Collection ~ William Boales/Edward & Esther Riker families. [Contents]
• Merlene (Warner) Richardson Collection ~ Haas/Warner/VanderWagon families. [Contents]
• Ronald Rosie Jr. Collection ~ Ronald & Johanna Rosie lightkeeper family. [Contents]
• Rosie (Haas) Warner Collection ~ Hutzler/Haas/Warner families. [Contents]

MIA Biographical Essays
• The Anderson's of South Manitou Island
• The Beck's of South Manitou Island
• Mr Boales - Squire of South Manitou Island
• The Bournique's of North Manitou Island
• The Burdick's of South Manitou Island
• The Burtons's of South Manitou Island
• The Carlson's of North Manitou Island
• The Erickson's of South Manitou Island
• The Feilen's of North Manitou Island
• The Haas' of South Manitou Island
• Rita Hadra-Rusco - Queen of North Manitou Island
• The Hutzler's of South Manitou Island
• The Johnson/Thompson Family of South Manitou Island [References]
• The Kitchen's of South Manitou Island
• The Maleske's of North Manitou Island
• Bertha Peth - Queen of South Manitou Island
• The Pickard's of North Manitou Island
• The Sheridan's of South Manitou Island
• The Stormer's of North Manitou Island
• The Tobin's of South Manitou Island

Land Patents
• Government Land Office Resources ~ U.S. Bureau of Land Management
• North Manitou Island Land Patents, Documents and Landholdings (maps)
• South Manitou Island Land Patents, Documents and Landholdings (maps)

Books and Videos*†
• Tom VanZoeren's Oral History Series ~ Excerpts from Tom's growing list of publications,
   and streaming audio clips.

North Manitou Island
• Furst, Glenn C, My Point of View
   Personal Memoir of a North Manitou lightkeeper's stepson. Self-Published, 1992. [more]
• Rosterman, Christine J, Pesano, John and Rusco, Rita H Hiking North Manitou ~ Island,
   Sights, Sounds and History (VHS video) Hesperia, MI 2000. [more]
• Ruchhoft, Robert H, Exploring North Manitou, South Manitou, High and Garden Islands
   of the Lake Michigan Archipelago ISBN: 0-940029-02-2 [more]
• Rusco, Rita Hadra North Manitou Island ~ Between Sunrise to Sunset [more]

South Manitou Island
• Don Roy's South Manitou Island Bibliography - An extensive list of reading and research material
 
     (*) A selection of other reading material is also available free at our online literature page.
     (†) Most of the above books can be found in Visitor Center bookstores in the Sleeping Bear Dunes
          National Lakeshore. Ordered online from The Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor, MI.

Other Online Resources
• Annual Reports of the U.S. Life-Saving Service (USLSS)
• Empire Area Museum Center
• National Park Service - SLBE search results for "North Manitou Island"
• National Park Service - SLBE search results for "South Manitou Island"
• The Leelanau Historical Society ... and museum
• schoolship.org Life Along the Manitou Passage