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Iroquois Hotel, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. – Historic Reproduction

Iroquois Hotel, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., c1905. — historic photograph
Iroquois Hotel, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., c1905.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Iroquois Hotel, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Iroquois Hotel, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

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The Iroquois Hotel stood in Sault Ste. Marie, a Michigan town on the St. Marys River that links Lake Superior and Lake Huron. Around 1905, a hotel in a busy river port like this would have housed travelers arriving by rail and steamer, along with the engineers, shippers, and tourists drawn by the canal and locks. The view comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American towns, resorts, and landmarks for sale as postcards and souvenir views. Its glass-plate negatives give the building a crisp, detailed look that shows how a commercial hotel presented itself to the public in the early twentieth century.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30304. 65 photo" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 018339
SubjectsHotels.United States--Michigan--Sault Sainte Marie.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61867

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