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Saint Mary's [i.e. Sault Sainte Marie] Canal celebration, parade on Ashmun Street – Antique Photo Print

Saint Mary's [i.e. Sault Sainte Marie] Canal celebration, parade on Ashmun Street, c1905. — historic photograph
Saint Mary's [i.e. Sault Sainte Marie] Canal celebration, parade on Ashmun Street, 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 Saint Mary's [i.e. Sault Sainte Marie] Canal celebration, parade on Ashmun Street in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A flag-lined parade moves down Ashmun Street in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, in this glass-plate negative from about 1905, when the town was marking the St. Marys Falls Ship Canal that opened in 1855. The canal bypassed the rapids of the St. Marys River and gave Great Lakes shipping a route around the falls, which made the town a center of commerce and industry. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American towns and landscapes from the 1890s into the 1920s, produced this view. Its many American flags and the crowded procession show how such civic occasions were displayed in small Midwestern cities.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 021870. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsFlags--American. Celebrations. Parades & processions.United States--Michigan--Sault Sainte Marie.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-64910

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