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  • Collection: Bensley Collection

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Traverse City Canning Company on the left. Looking west on Lake Ave. The freight loading dock down the street on the right side served the Chicago and West Michigan railroad.

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Looking south on Union Street from Bay Street. The M&NE (Manistee & Northeastern) depot is on the right and the Hannah Lay store on the left in the background.

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Grand Traverse County Commissioners, employees and facilities. Most people are unidentified.

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Building of the first hydro electric power dam on the Boardman River, known as the "Boardman Dam". The Boardman River Electric Light and Power company had been formed by L.K. Gibbs and others to provide electric power to Traverse City. Up to this…

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Bensley Cleaners, interior shots of the stores and cleaning area. Later pictures of the working area were taken in 1976.

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Garfield township Hall at the top of Rennie Hill.

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Interlochen Bowl performance at the National Music Camp.

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Odd fellows group picture.

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Worker making horse collars at the Votruba Leather Co.

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Traverse City Fire Department horse-drawn steam pumper fire engine and fire fighters at Cass Street station. (L-R Fred Neuman, Chief Tom Murray, Captain Joe Babel, John Haggerd and Don Howard.) The horses were Dan and Fred.
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