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G.R. & I.R.Y. [i.e. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway] station, Bay View, Mich. – Antique Print

G.R. & I.R.Y. [i.e. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway] station, Bay View, Mich., c1906. — historic photograph
G.R. & I.R.Y. [i.e. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway] station, Bay View, Mich., c1906.. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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 G.R. & I.R.Y. [i.e. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway] station, Bay View, Mich. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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G.R. & I.R.Y. [i.e. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway] station, Bay View, Mich.

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Bay View, on Little Traverse Bay near Petoskey, was a Methodist summer assembly and cottage community, and this 1906 view shows the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway station that served it. The railroad, whose initials appear in the title, carried visitors north to the resort grounds that the Bay View Association had developed since the 1870s. The Detroit Publishing Company made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative as part of its commercial series of Michigan and national scenes, and it later came to the Library of Congress. Pictures like this one document how rail travel shaped seasonal life in northern Michigan.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30474. G 3220" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018992. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRailroad stations.United States--Michigan--Bay View.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62459

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