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Great Lakes Engineering Ingenuity Found in Glass-Plate Photographs

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Abstract

Seven years ago, in 2012, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) reached out to staff at the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant for help with a historic undertaking. The USACE kept nearly 1,700 glass-plate negatives documenting the construction of one of the most important engineering works in North America. It wanted digital copies of the images and to rehouse the originals and send them to the National Archives and Records Administration. The Clarke was in an excellent position to make all of this happen for the corps. And from that point, a relationship was formed that continues to this day.

How to Cite:

Whitledge, B., (2020) “Great Lakes Engineering Ingenuity Found in Glass-Plate Photographs”, MAC Newsletter 47(3), 23-26.