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Main Street, Mackinac Island, Mich. – Antique Photo Print

Main Street, Mackinac Island, Mich., c1908. — historic photograph
Main Street, Mackinac Island, Mich., c1908.. 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 Main Street, Mackinac Island, Mich.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Main Street, Mackinac Island, Mich.

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Main Street on Mackinac Island is the detail that sets this view apart from the island's many other scenes: it shows the commercial heart of a resort community that had no cars, where horses, carriages and foot traffic defined daily life. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued commercial views of American towns and resorts in the early 1900s, made this 8 by 10 inch glass plate negative around 1908, when the island was a popular summer destination reached by steamboat from Michigan's lower peninsula. Its shops and storefronts reflect the tourist economy that supported the island through the Victorian and early twentieth-century years.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 4459" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070712. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--Michigan--Mackinac Island.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72275

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