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Help us describe and categorize more than 60,000 postcards featuring rare photographs depicting life in Michigan during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Cataloging these images will transform access to the collection -- from limited browsing to targeted search -- greatly expanding its value as a resource for historical research. - Clayton Lewis, Curator of Graphics Material
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The Clements Library is home to the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography, which contains approximately 100,000 historical photographs of the Great Lakes State depicting the diverse people, cultures, cities, businesses, buildings, farms, and forms of transportation in almost every county in Michigan from the early 1900s to the 1950s. Our goal is to make 60,000 of these images on real-photo postcards digitally available, but we need your help to organize and describe them.