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[Iroquois-on-the-Beach Hotel and Lake View House, Mackinac, Mich.] – Historic Print

[Iroquois-on-the-Beach Hotel and Lake View House, Mackinac, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Iroquois-on-the-Beach Hotel and Lake View House, Mackinac, 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 places in the Great Lakes drew summer visitors like Mackinac Island, and this view pairs two of its hotels, the Iroquois-on-the-Beach and the Lake View House, along the harbor. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large numbers of views of resorts and scenic spots for rail-travel promotion, made this glass negative sometime between 1900 and 1910. Motor vehicles were banned on the island in 1898, so the streets and waterfront of that period would have been filled with carriages, bicycles and foot traffic. The picture preserves how the resort looked before the island's later changes.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4430" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036434. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Harbors.United States--Michigan--Mackinac Island.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67918

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