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- Jewett & Root #7 Stove, 1851 -
- 1851
- Collections - Artifact
Jewett & Root #7 Stove, 1851
- Michigan School of Mines, now Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, circa 1906 - From 1895 to 1924, the Detroit Publishing Company was one of the major image publishers in the world. It had a wide-ranging stock of original photographs, many of which were colored using the company's patented "Phostint" process. Popular "Phostint" postcards, the Detroit Publishing Company claimed, were delicately "executed in Nature's Coloring" to be truthful, tasteful, beautiful, and educational.
- circa 1906
- Collections - Artifact
Michigan School of Mines, now Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, circa 1906
From 1895 to 1924, the Detroit Publishing Company was one of the major image publishers in the world. It had a wide-ranging stock of original photographs, many of which were colored using the company's patented "Phostint" process. Popular "Phostint" postcards, the Detroit Publishing Company claimed, were delicately "executed in Nature's Coloring" to be truthful, tasteful, beautiful, and educational.
- City of Hancock and Quincy Hill, Seen from Houghton, Michigan, circa 1905 - From 1895 to 1924, the Detroit Publishing Company was one of the major image publishers in the world. The company's wide-ranging stock of original photographs documented life and landscapes from across the nation and around the globe. From the tens of thousands of negatives, the company created prints, postcards, lantern slides, panoramas, and other merchandise for sale to educators, businessmen, advertisers, homeowners and travelers.
- circa 1905
- Collections - Artifact
City of Hancock and Quincy Hill, Seen from Houghton, Michigan, circa 1905
From 1895 to 1924, the Detroit Publishing Company was one of the major image publishers in the world. The company's wide-ranging stock of original photographs documented life and landscapes from across the nation and around the globe. From the tens of thousands of negatives, the company created prints, postcards, lantern slides, panoramas, and other merchandise for sale to educators, businessmen, advertisers, homeowners and travelers.
- Ford Motor Company Tugboat "Buttercup" near Houghton, Michigan, circa 1928 - Henry Ford sited his new manufacturing complex on the newly dredged River Rouge to accommodate ships bringing in raw materials or taking on finished product for delivery. Desiring complete self-sufficiency at the Rouge, Ford assembled his own fleet of cargo carriers, ocean freighters, barges, tugboats and canal boats. This photograph shows one of Ford Motor Company's tugboats, <em>Buttercup</em>, in Lake Superior.
- circa 1928
- Collections - Artifact
Ford Motor Company Tugboat "Buttercup" near Houghton, Michigan, circa 1928
Henry Ford sited his new manufacturing complex on the newly dredged River Rouge to accommodate ships bringing in raw materials or taking on finished product for delivery. Desiring complete self-sufficiency at the Rouge, Ford assembled his own fleet of cargo carriers, ocean freighters, barges, tugboats and canal boats. This photograph shows one of Ford Motor Company's tugboats, Buttercup, in Lake Superior.