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[Topinabee landing, Hamill's Inland Route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, Mich.] – Antique Print

[Topinabee landing, Hamill's Inland Route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Topinabee landing, Hamill's Inland Route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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[Topinabee landing, Hamill's Inland Route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, Mich.]

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The landing at Topinabee, on the route of Hamill's Inland Route between Cheboygan and Petoskey, shows a steamboat pier where passengers boarded for a trip through the lakes and channels of northern Michigan rather than across open Lake Huron. Routes like this carried summer visitors to resort towns, and the Detroit Publishing Company made many such views around 1900 to 1910, when railroads and steamers were promoting the region as a holiday destination. This view was made on an 8 x 10 inch glass plate, a format the company used for its large-scale commercial work. The pier and the waiting passengers capture how travel was still organized around the water in that period.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4490" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036442. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPiers & wharves. Passengers. Steamboats.United States--Michigan--Topinabee.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67925

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