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The Tashmoo

Date: 1905
Description: View across water toward the left side of the sidewheel. Caption reads: "The 'Tashmoo,' Port Huron, Mich."
Photograph

"McCormick Day"

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of people, horses, and farm machines gathered on the town's main street for a "McCormick Day" celebration, with several grain binders and a b...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: St. Clair Riverboat

Date: 11 17 1909
Description: A riverboat travels down a narrow canal. Storefronts, sidewalks and telephone poles line either side of the canal. Caption reads: "St. Clair Up-to-Date." ...
Photograph

Marquette Statue

Date: 1909
Description: Close-up of a bronze statue honoring the French Jesuit missionary priest, Father Jacques Marquette in the park named after him. Unveiled in 1909 the statue...
Photograph

Bank, Harness Store and General Store

Date: 1900
Description: A bank, harness store and general store. Text on building on right side reads: "J.H. Stecker Selz Shoes," "J.H. Stecker" and "Applegate Post Office." Capti...
Photograph

Engine No. 1009

Date: 1900
Description: Engine no. 1009 of the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway with engineer Charles S. Pollard seated in the cab. On the ground from the left are switchman...
Photograph

Aldo Leopold as a Young Man

Date: 1904
Description: Aldo Leopold standing in a boat with a group of young people. He is wearing pants, a shirt and a bow tie. Buildings can be seen on the shoreline in the bac...
Photograph

Young Aldo Leopold

Date: 1904
Description: A young Aldo Leopold is posing smiling, wearing a jacket and bow tie while sitting on a pier. He is vacationing in the Cheneaux Islands. A shoreline with b...
Photograph

John Jacob Astor House Inn

Date: 1900
Description: An exterior view of the John Jacob Astor House. The building previously housed the American Fur Company.
Photograph

Ontonagon River

Date: 1900
Description: View from rocky shoreline across river towards a man standing on rocks and holding a stick in front of a rock face on the opposite shoreline. There are lar...
Postcard

"My First Catch" A Swarm of Bees

Date: 08 28 1908
Description: 8-year-old Verna Hohman holding a tree branch with a swarm of bees. Caption reads: "'My First Catch' A Swarm of Bees." Sent to the American Bee Journal<...
Photograph

Depot Move Celebration

Date: 1908
Description: Gathering of people, some holding flags, celebrating the move of the small railroad depot along the track from Corinne to Gould City.
Photograph

Ontonagon Class Photo

Date: 1900
Description: Large group of school boys and school girls with their teacher at the “old” Ontonagon Union School.
Map or Atlas

New Shoals Near Waugoshance, Straits of Mackinac

Date: 1902
Description: This map shows shoals near Waugoshance Point. Lighthouses are labeled. Depths are shown by soundings and tints. Relief is shown by hachures. Inset includes...
Map or Atlas

Chart of South Fox Island Shoals, Lake Michigan

Date: 1906
Description: This map shows miles to other islands, harbors, canals, and passages. The South Fox ISL. LT and the Black Gas Buoy are colored in yellow and red. Depths ar...
Book or Pamphlet

Presque Isle River Journal Cover

Date: 1909
Description: A brown leather journal cover with the title "The Gang on the Presque Isle River 1909" stamped on in gold.
Map or Atlas

Presque Isle Map

Date: 1909
Description: A cyanoprint map of The Gang's journey down the Presque Isle River. There are small drawings around the border depicting the adventures of The Gang and Car...
Photograph

Man and Pigeon

Date: 1909
Description: An unidentified man is kneeling down and holding his hand out to a bird (probably a pigeon or a dove) in the town of Watersmeet.
Photograph

Nimrod the Dog

Date: 1909
Description: Carl Greene's dog Nimrod resting on the grass in Watersmeet. There is a chain on his collar, and The Gang's travel supplies, including a cased mandolin, ar...
Photograph

The Gang

Date: 1909
Description: The Gang at their campsite. From left to right are: Charles (Carl) Greene, Bill Marr, Dr. (Doc) Copeland, an unidentified man, and William MacLaren (Billy ...

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