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Collection of stereograph images of views of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the late nineteenth century.

This collection consists of six envelopes of stereographs published by Bailey & Whitesides, C. B. Brubaker, and A. G. Emergy, and some photographed by B. F. Childs. The images are scenes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the late nineteenth century, including Michigamme, Houghton, Hancock, and Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan and the Pictured Rocks.

Stereoscopic photos from a scientific expedition to Michigan's upper peninsula and Lake Superior in 1868 organized by Albert E. Foote, assistant in the University of Michigan Chemistry Laboratory; includes views of the expedition's boats and camps, natural features including the Pictured Rocks and waterfalls, mining operations, Indians, ships, and a lighthouse.

Stereograph views of the expedition's boats and camps, natural features including the Pictured Rocks and waterfalls, mining operations, Indians, ships, and a lighthouse. The original set of cards apparently included 127 numbered items. There are twenty-four items missing form the Bentley's collection. the collection also includes several photographic prints, some of which appear to be reprints from the cards, and some note about the expedition and the collection made by F. Clever Bald, director of the Michigan Historical Collections, about 1950