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West End Boulevard, Mackinac Island, Mich. – Historic Print

West End Boulevard, Mackinac Island, Mich., c1908. — historic photograph
West End Boulevard, Mackinac Island, Mich., c1908.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of West End Boulevard, Mackinac Island, Mich.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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West End Boulevard, Mackinac Island, Mich.

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West End Boulevard is a tree-lined route on Mackinac Island, the Michigan island in the Straits of Mackinac that was already a popular summer resort by the early 1900s. This c1908 view comes from a glass plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American towns, resorts, and scenery for tourist trade. Visitors then traveled the island mostly by carriage, bicycle, and on foot, and the island has long kept motor vehicles off its roads, so the empty roadway shows how these views were composed for a leisurely, horse-drawn world.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 4472" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070708. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRoads.United States--Michigan--Mackinac Island (Island)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan797 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72271

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