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Street scene in business district, Mackinac Island City, Michigan – Historic Photo Reproduction

Street scene in business district, Mackinac Island City, Michigan, [between 1890 and 1910] — historic photograph
Street scene in business district, Mackinac Island City, Michigan, [between 1890 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 Street scene in business district, Mackinac Island City, Michigan. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Street scene in business district, Mackinac Island City, Michigan

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Mackinac Island is one of the few places in the country where horse-drawn traffic was never fully displaced by the automobile, and this view of its business district shows that world in full swing. The subjects listed in its record point to carriages and coaches moving along a commercial street, the main way visitors and goods traveled on the island in the years between 1890 and 1910. Because motor vehicles were banned on the island, the street would have looked much as it does here, with storefronts lining the road and horses doing the work of daily life. Photographs like this one, catalogued in the Library of Congress, give a clear record of how a resort community operated before the twentieth century changed transportation nearly everywhere else.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1910]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1910.
NotesNo. 1223.
SubjectsCommercial streets--Michigan--Mackinac Island--1890-1910. Carriages & coaches--Michigan--Mackinac Island--1890-1910. Business districts--Michigan--Mackinac Island--1890-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 948 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161107

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