Michigan Sugar Co., Saginaw, Mich. – Historic Print
(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 historic photograph of Michigan Sugar Co., Saginaw, Mich. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Michigan Sugar Co., Saginaw, Mich.
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The factory in this view is one of the beet sugar works that made the Saginaw Valley a major sugar-producing region in the early 1900s. Growers hauled sugar beets to plants like this one, where they were washed, sliced, and boiled down to raw sugar in a process that ran around the clock during the autumn harvest. The Detroit Publishing Company made this 8 x 10 inch glass negative around 1908, when it was building a large catalog of American towns, factories, and landscapes. Its large-format plates capture the scale of industrial buildings and yard work that smaller cameras often missed.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | No. 154 Clif." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070232. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Sugar industry. Industrial facilities.United States--Michigan--Saginaw. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-71818 |
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