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Hotel Chippewa and fort [i.e. Fort Mackinac] from the dock, Mackinac Island, Mich. – Vintage Print

Hotel Chippewa and fort [i.e. Fort Mackinac] from the dock, Mackinac Island, Mich., c[1906] — historic photograph
Hotel Chippewa and fort [i.e. Fort Mackinac] from the dock, Mackinac Island, Mich., c[1906]. Historic photograph from the Mackinac Island collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Hotel Chippewa and fort [i.e. Fort Mackinac] from the dock, Mackinac Island, Mich.

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Here the view is taken from the dock, looking up toward two landmarks at once: the Hotel Chippewa and Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island in Michigan's Straits. The island's hotels drew summer visitors by steamboat from Detroit and Chicago around the turn of the twentieth century, and the fort, built by the British in the eighteenth century and later held by the United States, had become a tourist attraction as much as a military site. This 8 x 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely and sold views to railroads and travel promoters. The picture captures the arrival point that welcomed those passengers.

Created / publishedc[1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30498. G 3171" and "dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019028. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPiers & wharves. Hotels. Forts & fortifications.United States--Michigan--Mackinac Island.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62494

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