Michigan's Past

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Celebrating Paczki day at St Christopher's Catholic School in Detroit [Detroit Free Press 2/12/1975] one of the earliest articles I could find that went into any detail on paczki

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Congressman John Dingell pictured in 1964

Photo was published in the Dearborn Guide newspaper

Source: Dearborn Historical Museum

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Last log run on the Flat River at Lowell - 1892 (Source: Lowell Area Historical Museum)  http://ow.ly/7rYS30nA4Vk 

Lowell was originally incorporated as a village on 2/4/1859

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Downtown Lansing post January 1967 blizzard (Gary Boynton pic) http://ow.ly/JK1W30nulDP

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Packard Plant Bridge over Grand Blvd in Detroit - 1939 

(Source: Detroit Historical Society https://detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/photo/47C9FC4B-F8E3-41F0-BFDF-826974320500 )

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Methodist Church in Grandville - pictured in 1907 book Grandville: its past, present and futurehttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015071342896?urlappend=%3Bseq=7

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Hope College student riding a donkey out in the snow - 1916 Source: Joint Archives of Holland https://hope.contentdm.oclc.org/…/co…/p16051coll1/id/7/rec/9

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Thomas Edison and Henry Ford greeted by Michigan Central Railroad Depot, Ypsilanti, Michigan, Aretas Bedell, 1929

(courtesy of Ypsilanti Historical Society Photo Archives at University of Michigan)

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Football themed McDonald’s ad in the Lansing State Journal 9/16/1965

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The Everly Brothers, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, the Four Tops and the Roostertail restaurant in Detroit 

Source: Bentley Historical Library

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs8445/hs8445

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Wall Scaling Contest. M.A.C. Field Day - 1915 Source: MSU Archives http://onthebanks.msu.edu/Object/1-4-81C/wall-scaling-contest-1915/

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Laying pavement on John R near 14 Mile Road in what is now Troy - 1922 Source: Rochester Hills Public Library

http://oaklandcountyhistory.org/knowvation/app/consolidatedSearch/#autologin/guest/lb_document_id=4845

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How Michigan Lumberjacks Celebrated Christmas

A logger's life was tough, and Christmas was no exception. Until dinnertime ...

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Mrs. William O. Snyder, of 234 Dickinson in Grand Rapids, pulls her infant daughter on a sled - 1946 Apparently its their first snowy winter after moving from Australia Source: Grand Rapids Public Library https://cdm16055.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16055coll10/id/2515

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Santa on bicycle photographed by Traverse City photographer Al Barnes - ca. 1940s

Source: Traverse Area District Library

https://grandtraverse.pastperfectonline.com/photo/61CFB006-BABD-43EB-8A76-603593708208

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Dog tricks in front of Ludington Hotel, Escanaba - ca. 1890 Source: Delta County Historical Society https://deltahistorical.pastperfectonline.com/photo/9654097E-10F6-4E6F-B372-127923428686

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Dear Santa - please bring me a farm with animals and a mickey mouse guitar [Livingston County Press 12/11/1958]