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Selected Library of Congress Resources for Michigan

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The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S. The list below is just a sample of the many Michigan resources available for free on the Library's Web site.

The tools at the end of the page can help teachers use these in the classroom. Teachers can find even more primary sources, along with the tools to help use them in the classroom, at www.loc.gov/teachers. They can also search the Library's American Memory or Prints and Photographs collections.

Michigan Flag

Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan 1874. Chas. Shober & Co. props. Chicago Lithographing Co
Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan 1874. Chas. Shober & Co. props. Chicago Lithographing Co
First and ten millionth Ford, 1924
First and ten millionth Ford, 1924
Car ferry, Michigan Central, entering slip, Detroit River, between 1880 and 1901
Car ferry, Michigan Central, entering slip, Detroit River, between 1880 and 1901
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“Dear Mr. President”, Detroit, Michigan, January or February 1942
Parke Davis' employees / American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1899
Parke Davis' employees / American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1899
Mobilizing Michigan for farm and factory : U.S. Employment Service survey conducted house to house by veteran's organizations, 1941-3
Mobilizing Michigan for farm and factory : U.S. Employment Service survey conducted house to house by veteran's organizations, 1941-3
I want to go back to Michigan; Down on the farm. 1914
I want to go back to Michigan; Down on the farm. 1914
Launching another victory ship United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation / Ioseph Pennell del. ; Ketterlinus Phila. imp, 1918
Launching another victory ship United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation / Ioseph Pennell del. ; Ketterlinus Phila. imp, 1918
Gale's patent horse hay rake! [Albion, Mich. : Gale Manufacturing Co., 1875?]
Gale's patent horse hay rake! [Albion, Mich. : Gale Manufacturing Co., 1875?]
View of Detroit from Shafer Building - showing Windsor, Canada, and Belle Isle, Mich, c1901
View of Detroit from Shafer Building - showing Windsor, Canada, and Belle Isle, Mich, c1901
Government Locks at Sault Ste. Marie, 1903
Government Locks at Sault Ste. Marie, 1903
Passage Island Light Station, Lighthouse, Copper Harbor vicinity, Keweenaw County, MI
Passage Island Light Station, Lighthouse, Copper Harbor vicinity, Keweenaw County, MI

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