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[A Northern Michigan timber wolf, Sault Sainte Marie] – Historic Print

[A Northern Michigan timber wolf, Sault Sainte Marie], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[A Northern Michigan timber wolf, Sault Sainte Marie], [between 1905 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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 [A Northern Michigan timber wolf, Sault Sainte Marie]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[A Northern Michigan timber wolf, Sault Sainte Marie]

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Rather than a live animal or a landscape, this negative records a mounted timber wolf, a taxidermy specimen photographed at Sault Sainte Marie, the twin-city riverfront on the St. Marys River at the Michigan-Ontario border. The Detroit Publishing Company, which took and sold views of American places in the early twentieth century, made pictures like this between about 1905 and 1915. Wolves had been largely driven out of Michigan's settled areas by then, so a preserved animal like this one stood in for a creature many visitors would never see in the wild.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4588" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043494. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTaxidermy. Wolves.United States--Michigan--Sault Sainte Marie.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70380

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