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View from the Blair cottage, Mackinac Isl'd, Mich. – Historic Print

View from the Blair cottage, Mackinac Isl'd, Mich., [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
View from the Blair cottage, Mackinac Isl'd, Mich., [between 1900 and 1905]. 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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View from the Blair cottage, Mackinac Isl'd, Mich.

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Taken from the Blair cottage on Mackinac Island, Michigan, this view has the Fort Mackinac blockhouse at its right edge, tying the scene to the island's old military post. The British built the fort in the late 1700s, and it later served as a U.S. Army post, while the island's cottages and hotels drew summer visitors from the Great Lakes region by the turn of the twentieth century. The negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed tourist destinations across the country for sale, so the picture shows how travelers were invited to see places like Mackinac.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes217" on negative. Fort Mackinac blockhouse at right. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042447. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsForts & fortifications.United States--Michigan--Mackinac Island.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69657

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