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[Block house, Fort Mackinac, & Mission Point, MackinacIsland, Mich.] – Antique Wall Art

[Block house, Fort Mackinac, & Mission Point, MackinacIsland, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Block house, Fort Mackinac, & Mission Point, MackinacIsland, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Block house, Fort Mackinac, & Mission Point, MackinacIsland, Mich.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Block house, Fort Mackinac, & Mission Point, MackinacIsland, Mich.]

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This view pairs a blockhouse at Fort Mackinac with the shoreline at Mission Point on the island's east side. The fort sits on a limestone bluff above the Straits of Mackinac and passed between British and American control several times in the early 1800s, which is why its wooden and stone defenses reflect more than one military era. By the time this glass negative was made, between 1900 and 1910, the island had become a summer resort reached mainly by steamboat, and the Detroit Publishing Company sold views like this to visitors who came to see its historic sites.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4443" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036371. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBlockhouses. Forts & fortifications.United States--Michigan--Mackinac Island.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan810 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67866

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