Grayling, Michigan, 1921 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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: Grayling, Michigan, 1921, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: U.S. Michigan Guard, Grayling, Mich., August 1921
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Grayling, Michigan, 1921
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Grayling, the seat of Crawford County, sat on the Au Sable River in northern Michigan in 1921, a town shaped by the lumber industry that had cleared much of the region's white pine in the decades before. By the early 1920s the sawmills were fewer, and the cutover land was being considered for farming, while anglers from across the Midwest already came for the Au Sable's trout. Camp Grayling, established in 1917 as a military training ground, had brought soldiers and business to town during the First World War and remained part of local life afterward. Residents would have known Grayling as a river town whose economy was slowly shifting from timber toward resort trade and small farms.
| Created / published | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Creator | spencer & wyckoff |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,357 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | U.S. Michigan Guard, Grayling, Mich., August 1921 |
| Reference | MI Grayling 1921 |
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