Mich Ag College Lansing, Michigan, 1910 – Antique Photo Print
(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.)
Description
Step back in time with Mich Ag College Lansing, Michigan, 1910, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: [Agricultural farm, M.A.C., Lansing, Michigan]
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Mich Ag College Lansing, Michigan, 1910
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Michigan Agricultural College sat on rolling farmland just east of Lansing in 1910, and the photograph captures it at a moment of steady expansion. Founded in 1855 as the first agricultural college in the United States, the school had by then grown into a major center for scientific farming, veterinary work, and engineering, with its experimental fields and barns drawing visiting farmers from across the state. Lansing itself was a manufacturing city of carriage works, furniture makers, and auto parts firms, and the college's graduates often went back to rural counties to teach, advise, and run demonstration plots. Students of the period lived under strict military-style rules, drilling and marching in uniform, and the campus was the place where many Michigan families first encountered the new agricultural sciences.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | geill, j. e. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,254 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Agricultural farm, M.A.C., Lansing, Michigan] |
| Reference | MI Mich Ag College Lansing 1 1910 |
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