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TitleJ.C. Penny Company Construction Billboard
Datec. 1955
SubjectAdvertising Billboards J.C. Penny Corporation
DescriptionColor negative showing a billboard located in a parking lot next to an unidentified five story brick...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 116-117
Date1976
SubjectReal estate development -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township -- History
DescriptionFARMS GIVE WAY TO SUBDIVISIONS Wherever you live in Bloomfield Township or Bloomfield Hills or Bir...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 120-121
Date1976
SubjectReal estate development -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township -- History
DescriptionFARMS, PLATTED AND SUBDIVIDED, BECOME LOTS, BECOME "HOME" A section of the little book published i...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 126-127
Date1976
SubjectBloomfield Hills Country Club (Michigan) -- History
DescriptionBLOOMFILD HILLS' CLUBS The first golf and country club in the area north of Detroit was Bloomfield...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 128-129
Date1976
SubjectCranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) -- History
DescriptionMORE OF CRANBROOK: THE MEETING HOUSE The image of Cranbrook rightfully dominates Bloomfield Hills....
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TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionDwight Cutler and Hunter Savidge established the Cutler and Savidge Lumber Company in 1858. They had...
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TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe mill, owned by Dwight Cutler and Hunter Savidge, and later by Cutler and William Savidge, was on...
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TitleWyman, Buswell Lumber Mill
Date1870
SubjectWyman, Buswell Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionCharles E. Wyman and Henry W. Buswell began operating a sawmill in 1864 and built the structure show...
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TitleBatchellor, Slaaght and Shippey Lumber Mill
Date1870
SubjectBatchellor, Slaaght and Shippey Lumber Mill (Ferrysburg, Mich.)
DescriptionThis sawmill was built in 1867 by John W. Hopkins and Colonel William Ferry II, then sold to the Chi...
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TitleFerry and Sons Saw Mill
Date1860
SubjectFerry and Sons Saw Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe area’s first functioning sawmill, the mill was built in 1836 at the foot of Columbus Stre...
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TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe Cutler and Savidge Lumber Company owned several mills in Grand Haven, Ferrysburg and Spring Lake...
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TitleEmlaw, Boyce and Storr Mill
Date1867
SubjectEmlaw, Boyce and Storr Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThis photograph was taken the year the sawmill opened on the north bank of the South Channel in Gran...
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TitleSheldon, Willard C.
Date1890
SubjectSheldon, Willard C., 1839-
DescriptionWillard Sheldon was the president of the Challenge Corn Planter Company in 1871, but he was best kno...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 130-131
Date1976
SubjectChurches -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township
DescriptionTHE HILLS' CHURCHES There is more land in Bloomfield Hills dedicated to houses of worship than the...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 132-133
Date1976
SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Hills
DescriptionEARLY SUBURBAN RESIDENCES Bloomfield Hills, so attractive to our first settlers, spent its long do...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 134-135
Date1976
SubjectCranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
DescriptionCRANBROOK JEWELS-ARCHITECTURE AND ART Families who built estates here had private art collections, ...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 136-137
Date1976
SubjectMilles, Carl, 1875-1955
DescriptionCARL MILLES' ORPHEUS FOUNTAIN Carl Milles has more than 70 pieces of sculpture on the grounds at C...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 138-139
Date1976
SubjectBloomfield Hills (Mich.) -- Politics and government -- History
DescriptionBLOOMFIELD HILLS GOVERNMENT AND CITY HALL In 1926, the area of Bloomfield Hills had outgrown its fi...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 140-141
Date1976
SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Hills
DescriptionCONTEMPORARY HOUSES IN THE HILLS By the very nature of the manner in which Bloomfield Hills made i...
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TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 154-155
Date1976
SubjectSchools -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township
DescriptionCONTEMPORARY SCHOOLS Most families moving into Bloomfield in the Sixties and Seventies chose this ...
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TitleVillage Utilities Bus Company
Date1927
SubjectTransportation--St. Clair Shores, MI--Village Utilities Bus Company
DescriptionThe Village Utilities Bus Company first day of service was May 9, 1927. This bus company replaced t...
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TitleWilliam H. Loutit Residence
Date1955
SubjectLoutit, William H., 1866-1948
DescriptionThe home of Great Lakes sea captain William R. Loutit was built at the northwest corner of Washingto...
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TitleBoyden Mill Shipping
Date1878
SubjectBoyden Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe former Ridell Mill was converted into a shingle mill by Charles Boyden. Three years later, Healy...
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TitleBoyden Shingle Mill
Date1880
SubjectBoyden Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionLocated on the south side of the South Channel between Second and Third Streets, the mill had some 2...
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TitleCutler & Savidge Lumber Company
Date1880
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThis business operated from 1858 until 1904 and this photograph would have been taken around the tim...
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