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- Calcite Quarry near Rogers City, Michigan, circa 1912 - This circa 1912 photograph shows Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company's Calcite Quarry on Lake Huron near Rogers City. Calcite-rich rock mined at this site could be processed to create crushed aggregate, steel additives, building stone, and many other useful products.
- circa 1912
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Calcite Quarry near Rogers City, Michigan, circa 1912
This circa 1912 photograph shows Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company's Calcite Quarry on Lake Huron near Rogers City. Calcite-rich rock mined at this site could be processed to create crushed aggregate, steel additives, building stone, and many other useful products.
- Calcite Quarry near Rogers City, Michigan, circa 1912 - This circa 1912 photograph shows Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company's Calcite Quarry on Lake Huron near Rogers City. Calcite-rich rock mined at this site could be processed to create crushed aggregate, steel additives, building stone, and many other useful products.
- circa 1912
- Collections - Artifact
Calcite Quarry near Rogers City, Michigan, circa 1912
This circa 1912 photograph shows Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company's Calcite Quarry on Lake Huron near Rogers City. Calcite-rich rock mined at this site could be processed to create crushed aggregate, steel additives, building stone, and many other useful products.
- Aerial View of Industrial Area, Michigan, circa 1905 - This photograph, showing an aerial view of an unidentified industrial area, was clipped from a scrapbook owned by Detroit Edison electric utility's Photographic Department. Subjects included quarries, lumbering operations, railroad building, electric power stations, and waterways throughout the state of Michigan.
- circa 1905
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Aerial View of Industrial Area, Michigan, circa 1905
This photograph, showing an aerial view of an unidentified industrial area, was clipped from a scrapbook owned by Detroit Edison electric utility's Photographic Department. Subjects included quarries, lumbering operations, railroad building, electric power stations, and waterways throughout the state of Michigan.
- Tom Quested, Former Rocks Village Bridge Toll House Keeper and Draw Tender, East Haverhill, Massachusetts - At left in this scene is Tom Quested, identified as a one-time toll collector at the Rocks Village Bridge near Haverhill, Massachusetts. Quested also operated the bridge's movable drawspan, which allowed tall ships on the Merrimack River to pass through it. In their spare time, some Rocks Village toll collectors made and repaired shoes.
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Tom Quested, Former Rocks Village Bridge Toll House Keeper and Draw Tender, East Haverhill, Massachusetts
At left in this scene is Tom Quested, identified as a one-time toll collector at the Rocks Village Bridge near Haverhill, Massachusetts. Quested also operated the bridge's movable drawspan, which allowed tall ships on the Merrimack River to pass through it. In their spare time, some Rocks Village toll collectors made and repaired shoes.
- Portrait of Henry Ford, circa 1912 - The popularity of Henry Ford's Model T continued to grow in 1912. Annual production topped 68,000 units, and the price for a two-person runabout fell to $590. Ford had a virtual monopoly in the low-price field, building some 96 percent of American cars priced at $600 or below. Ford's Highland Park plant ranked among the best industrial facilities in the world.
- circa 1912
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Portrait of Henry Ford, circa 1912
The popularity of Henry Ford's Model T continued to grow in 1912. Annual production topped 68,000 units, and the price for a two-person runabout fell to $590. Ford had a virtual monopoly in the low-price field, building some 96 percent of American cars priced at $600 or below. Ford's Highland Park plant ranked among the best industrial facilities in the world.
- Myra Kendall Roberts and Roy L. Roberts who Repaired Farris Windmill on Cape Cod, Massachusetts -
- 1920-1936
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Myra Kendall Roberts and Roy L. Roberts who Repaired Farris Windmill on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- Calcite Quarry near Rogers City, Michigan, circa 1912 - This circa 1912 photograph shows Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company's Calcite Quarry on Lake Huron near Rogers City. Calcite-rich rock mined at this site could be processed to create crushed aggregate, steel additives, building stone, and many other useful products.
- circa 1912
- Collections - Artifact
Calcite Quarry near Rogers City, Michigan, circa 1912
This circa 1912 photograph shows Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company's Calcite Quarry on Lake Huron near Rogers City. Calcite-rich rock mined at this site could be processed to create crushed aggregate, steel additives, building stone, and many other useful products.
- Calcite Quarry near Rogers City, Michigan, circa 1912 - This circa 1912 photograph shows Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company's Calcite Quarry on Lake Huron near Rogers City. Calcite-rich rock mined at this site could be processed to create crushed aggregate, steel additives, building stone, and many other useful products.
- circa 1912
- Collections - Artifact
Calcite Quarry near Rogers City, Michigan, circa 1912
This circa 1912 photograph shows Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company's Calcite Quarry on Lake Huron near Rogers City. Calcite-rich rock mined at this site could be processed to create crushed aggregate, steel additives, building stone, and many other useful products.
- Charles Steinmetz House in Schenectady, New York, 1930-1946 - General Electric owned an exclusive "realty plot," divided into lots for prominent employees. Charles Steinmetz, a leading electrical engineer, constructed a large home (completed in 1903) and laboratory there. Steinmetz kept cacti and other exotic plants in a greenhouse attached to the three-story brick house he shared with his adopted son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren until his death in 1923.
- 1930-1946
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Charles Steinmetz House in Schenectady, New York, 1930-1946
General Electric owned an exclusive "realty plot," divided into lots for prominent employees. Charles Steinmetz, a leading electrical engineer, constructed a large home (completed in 1903) and laboratory there. Steinmetz kept cacti and other exotic plants in a greenhouse attached to the three-story brick house he shared with his adopted son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren until his death in 1923.
- Charles Steinmetz House in Schenectady, New York, 1930-1946 - General Electric owned an exclusive "realty plot," divided into lots for prominent employees. Charles Steinmetz, a leading electrical engineer, constructed a large home (completed in 1903) and laboratory there. Steinmetz kept cacti and other exotic plants in a greenhouse attached to the three-story brick house he shared with his adopted son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren until his death in 1923.
- 1930-1946
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Charles Steinmetz House in Schenectady, New York, 1930-1946
General Electric owned an exclusive "realty plot," divided into lots for prominent employees. Charles Steinmetz, a leading electrical engineer, constructed a large home (completed in 1903) and laboratory there. Steinmetz kept cacti and other exotic plants in a greenhouse attached to the three-story brick house he shared with his adopted son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren until his death in 1923.