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Brockway Mountain Drive, Keweenaw County, Michigan, circa 1940

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Artifact Overview

Brockway Mountain Drive is a scenic highway on the Keweenaw Peninsula, which juts into Lake Superior from the northern tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The picturesque roadway, which was constructed during the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, stretches just less than 9 miles and rises 1,320 feet above sea level.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1940

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.1859.38

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.75 in
Width: 9.75 in

Inscriptions

Handwritten in pencil on back: Brockway Mountain Drive / Keweenaw County
Brockway Mountain Drive, Keweenaw County, Michigan, circa 1940