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- Glass Factory, Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada, circa 1910 - By the early 1890s, the lumber industry around Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada was in decline. Local businessmen believed glass manufacturing would revive the area's failing economy. They formed the Sydenham Glass Company (later Dominion Glass Company Limited), built a factory and by 1895 produced their first glass product. The factory burned in 1901, but investors rebuilt. Their new glassworks is shown in this postcard.
- circa 1910
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Glass Factory, Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada, circa 1910
By the early 1890s, the lumber industry around Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada was in decline. Local businessmen believed glass manufacturing would revive the area's failing economy. They formed the Sydenham Glass Company (later Dominion Glass Company Limited), built a factory and by 1895 produced their first glass product. The factory burned in 1901, but investors rebuilt. Their new glassworks is shown in this postcard.
- "Old Slave Huts, The Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.," Published 1915-1930 - Hundreds of enslaved people worked on the Hermitage Plantation near Savannah, Georgia, before the Civil War. They cultivated rice, raised livestock, made bricks, and operated a sawmill and foundry. After the war, depictions of the "old slave huts" and the now-freed people who lived in them appealed to tourists seeking the last vestiges of the "Old South" and intent on romanticizing times of enslavement.
- 1915-1930
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"Old Slave Huts, The Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.," Published 1915-1930
Hundreds of enslaved people worked on the Hermitage Plantation near Savannah, Georgia, before the Civil War. They cultivated rice, raised livestock, made bricks, and operated a sawmill and foundry. After the war, depictions of the "old slave huts" and the now-freed people who lived in them appealed to tourists seeking the last vestiges of the "Old South" and intent on romanticizing times of enslavement.
- Hamilton Dam on the Flint River, Flint, Michigan, 1908-1917 -
- 1908-1917
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Hamilton Dam on the Flint River, Flint, Michigan, 1908-1917
- "Buick Factory and Offices, Flint, Mich.," 1907-1909 - David Dunbar Buick built automobiles in Detroit before investors moved his company to Flint in 1903. Two years later, the firm broke ground on a new 14-acre factory on Flint's north side, where production began in the summer of 1906. Greatly expanded and updated over the years, the complex -- much later known as "Buick City" -- remained in operation until 1999.
- 1907-1909
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"Buick Factory and Offices, Flint, Mich.," 1907-1909
David Dunbar Buick built automobiles in Detroit before investors moved his company to Flint in 1903. Two years later, the firm broke ground on a new 14-acre factory on Flint's north side, where production began in the summer of 1906. Greatly expanded and updated over the years, the complex -- much later known as "Buick City" -- remained in operation until 1999.