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[Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, Mich.] – Historic Print

[Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, Mich.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, Mich.]

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Arch Rock is a limestone arch rising about 146 feet above the northeast shore of Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, and it is one of the island's best-known natural features. This 8 x 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American scenery and tourist sites in the early 1900s and sold the images as color-tinted postcards and prints. Arch formations like this one were shaped over long periods by wave erosion, and the rock drew steamboat passengers and summer visitors to the island's resort trade. The negative's catalog number and its later gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949 show how the plate traveled from the company's files into a public collection.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 2295" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033742. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRock formations.United States--Michigan--Mackinac Island (Island)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66915

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