Previous Winners
2024
Ishpeming Area Historical Society and Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum, Ishpeming, MI
Grace A. Dow Memorial Library, Midland, MI
Lapeer District Library, Marguerite de Angeli Library, Lapeer, MI
Howard Miller Library, Zeeland, MI
DeWitt District Library, DeWitt, MI
Alma Public Library, Alma, MI
2023
Bellaire Area Historical Society
Newspaper: The Antrim County News, Dates: 1947 - 1966
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Lansing Capital Area District Library
Newspaper: Ingham County News, Dates: 1970 - 1977
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2022
East Lansing Public Library
Newspaper: East Lansing Community Life, Dates: 1919 -1926
Newspaper: East Lansing Press, Dates: 1930 - 1934
Newspaper: Towne Courier, Date: 1963
Mount Clemens Public Library
Newspaper: The Macomb Daily (The Mount Clemens Monitor and The Mount Clemens Press), Dates: 1896 - 1921
2021
Beaver Island District Library and Beaver Island Historical Society
Newspaper: Beaver Beacon, Dates: 1955 - 1958
Monroe County Museum System
Newspaper: Monroe Evening News, Dates: 1920 - 1923
2020
Hazel Park
Newspaper: The Hazel Park News, Dates: 1956 - 1980
Newspaper: The Ferndale Gazette Times, Dates: 1936 - 1980
Newspaper: The Legal Examiner
Newspaper: The Palladium, Dates: 1939 - 1955
2019
Newspaper: Sparta Sentinel-Leader
2018
Saugatuck-Douglas History Center & the Saugatuck-Douglas District Library
Newspaper: The Commercial-Record (Saugatuck), Dates: 1959 - 1969
2017
L'Anse Area Schools/Baraga County Public Library
Newspaper: The L'Anse Sentinel
2016
Alpena County P​ublic Library
Newspaper: Alpena News, Dates: 1899 - 1905, 1909 - 1910
Newspaper: Michigan Labor Journal, Dates: 1884 - 1890
2014
Newspaper: Cheboygan Democrat
Dates: 1880 - 1927