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- L.L. Cook Company (Milwaukee, Wis.) (3955)
- Pesha, Louis James, 1868-1912 (1666)
- Childs, C. R. (Charles R.) (1054)
- Cave, J. H. (John H.) (654)
- Beebe, Edward, 1871-1945 (637)
- Flower, Clarence William (301)
- Elliott, Harlo Melvin (285)
- Garraway Company (Rutherford, New Jersey) (200)
- Pratt, James H. (196)
- M. L. Photo Co. (Chicago, Illinois) (154)
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The David V. Tinder collection of Michigan Photography at the William L. Clements Library consists of over 100,000 images in a variety of formats including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet photographs, real photo postcards, stereographs, and mounted and unmounted paper prints. The collection is primarily made up of vernacular photographs of everyday life in Michigan taken by both professional and amateur photographers from the 1840s into the mid-twentieth century. The collection provides a rich resource for local histories of Michigan, as well as subjects pertinent to American history more broadly, including: lumbering, mining, suburbanization; the industrialization of cities; travel and transportation; the impact of the automobile; the rise of middle-class leisure society; fashion and dress; ethnicity and race; the role of fraternal organizations in society; and the participation of photographers in business, domestic, and social life.
Currently, this digital collection includes the real-photo postcard series only. The real-photo postcard series has been fully digitized and described using data generated via the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform, a project completed in partnership with the Shapiro Design Lab. Volunteers were asked to transcribe the title, the photographer and date, and categorize the general subject matter of the image. The real-photo postcards within the David V. Tinder Collection are a gift of David and Cynthia Walters, Meaghan and Joel Cole, and Jennifer and Zachary SantAmour.
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