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Many of these cards were purchased on ebay, some were donated by classmates, and others were shamelessly plagiarized from unsuspecting ebay sellers who were demanding a king's ransom for them.
Cards in this gallery range from the late 1800's to the late 1930's. A few may be of unknown dates, but appear old, so by default they ended up in this gallery.
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Gaylord MI Big Wheels made by Gaylord FG Co RPPC a Gaylord Manufacturing Company made logging sleighs, big wheels, wagons, etc.
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Original HARPER’S WEEKLY Illustrated Newspaper, (New York) dated April 18, 1885. COMPLETE in 16 pgs, Folio (16” x 11 1/4”). Featured in this issue is an original 6 3/4” x 9” wood engraved view: “LOGGING IN MICHIGAN-A BIG LOAD (from a photograph by Ish, Gaylord, Michigan)”. The accompanying article “CONCERNING LOGS AND LOGGERS” reads, “...Mr. William A. Benedict, of Detroit, Michigan, send us an interesting and instructive photograph, of which an engraving is given below, and he writes as follows: ‘I...take pleasure in mailing you a photograph of the largest load of pine logs ever hauled by any one team of horses in the pine woods of Michigan. The load consisted of twenty logs, all of which were sixteen feet in length, and scaled 14,595, board measure. This immense load was hauled a distance of four miles, from one of the numerous camps of the Gratwick, Smith, & Fryer Lumber Company, and banked in Otsego Lake, Michigan...’”.
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This real photo postcard shows part of the huge Dayton Last Block Works at Gaylord, Michigan MI, about 1910. This was one of the largest industries in the Gaylord area, located in the heart of northern Michigan's hardwood district. Established in 1895, the Dayton Last Block Company occupied 27 buildings and milled up to four million feet of hardwood per year, turning it into into blocks that would be used by various manufacturers for shoe lasts and other forms,. It also produced bowling pins. The supply of northern Michigan hardwood eventually ran out, causing the plant to close in 1931. This fine view shows several of the plant's buildings, a long conveyor at left, railroad cars full of logs arriving for milling, and piles of finished hardwood last blocks.
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This card was postmarked from Gaylord, but the location of the "Club House", or circumstances surrounding it, are unknown.
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Must have been a record snowfall that day as 2-3 different views of these tracks were taken.
This burned down a few years later.
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