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Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, Michigan – Vintage Print

Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, Michigan, c1899. — historic print
Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, Michigan, c1899.. Historic print 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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A window into the past: Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, Michigan, preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, Michigan

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Arch Rock, a limestone natural bridge rising about 146 feet above the Lake Huron shoreline on the northeast side of Mackinac Island, is the subject of this color photochrom from around 1899. The Detroit Photographic Company made these prints by a process that layered several lithographic stones, each inked in a different hue, to give the scene its painted-looking color. The company's catalog albums served as sales samples, so the picture was meant to show buyers the view and the process at once. Mackinac Island drew summer tourists by steamboat in this era, and its rock formations were among the sights they came to see.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color.
NotesIn album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53431. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
SubjectsRock formations.United States--Michigan--Mackinac Island.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 730 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-78902

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