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Marquette - Front Street

Human Settlements, Transportation, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress Front Street, Marquette [A trolley car is traveling up the street. Ladies dressed in their finery window shop.]

Scanned: June 23, 2009


Auto Lab

Education, Postsecondary Education, Education, Higher, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Transportation, Automotive Testing for Octane Rating of a Gasoline [A photo of eight students dressed in military uniforms using equipment in the Auto Lab.]

Scanned: May 10, 2006


MTU - Homecoming

Manners and Customs, Festivals, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Transportation, Automotive Homecoming. [A group of students dressed up like hobos and driving a beat up car in the Homecoming Hobo Parade. (Michigan Tech Centennial Page 263)]

Scanned: November 17, 2009


Copper Harbor Bridge

Transportation, Bridges, Persons, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress Copper Harbor Bridge [Two women sit on the bridge dangling their feet. A man dressed in a suit can be seen upsteam. ]

Scanned: June 10, 2009


Bridges - Portage Lake

Persons, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Transportation, Bridges Miss Mary Lou Avery takes a traffic count at the north side of the Portage Lake bridge. She is working under the sponsorship of the Hancock Chamber of Commerce, and, with her helper, Miss Ethel Dover, counted 1,145 cars from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday. They represented 29 states and the province of Canada. This count will later be compared with the Michigan State Highway Deparmtent count through its meter tabulations. [A woman with a clipboard stands on the Hancock side of the bridge. The Shell gas station and Temple Jacob are visible.]

Scanned: November 6, 2007


Richard Nelson

Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Transportation, Richard Nelson on early motorcycle. Circa 1900. [A man poses for a photograph with a motor cycle]

Scanned: November 8, 2007


Transportation - Automotive

Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Transportation, Automotive [A well-dressed woman and her child sitting in the driver's seat of a vintage automobile are pictured. The vehicle is parked on the street outside of a two-story home surrounded by a picket fence and trees.]

Scanned: March 24, 2011


Transportation - Horse and Buggy

Persons, Transportation, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress [A well-dressed man sits in a carriage holding his hat. Perhaps he has stopped to chat with the woman standing near the carriage.]

Scanned: July 21, 2009