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The Liberty Bell Tour photograph album contains approximately 580 photographs depicting the journey of the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, and back again in 1915.

The Liberty Bell Tour photograph album contains approximately 580 photographs depicting the journey of the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, and back again in 1915.

The album (40 x 28 cm) has black paper covers and 305 pages, 14 of which do not contain any photographs. The photographs are generally arranged in chronological sequence and depict loading the Liberty Bell onto parade floats and train cars, celebratory parades, gathered crowds, and individuals and groups posing with the Liberty Bell. Numerous pictures include captions referencing the locations in which they were taken. The album also contains two small maps, each showing one of the routes of the cross-county trips that the Liberty Bell took, as well as landscape photographs of scenes in the western United States. Notable persons photographed with the Liberty Bell include Thomas Edison, members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and groups of Native Americans in Cayuse, Oregon. Landscapes pictured include views of Wyoming, Pulpit Rock, Bear River Canyon, Mount Shasta, Shasta Springs, Horseshoe Curve, Royal Gorge, the Rockies, Salt Lake, and Feather River Canyon.

The collection consists of 1735 scans of images and 18 CDs of a miscellaneous photographic collection, 1875-1980, which were scanned in 2010.

The collection includes 1735 scans of images and 18 CDs of the Little Traverse Bay Historical Museum miscellaneous photographic collection of glass-plate negatives, photographs and negatives, 1875-1980. The collection was temporarily loaned to the Clarke Historical Library so it could be scanned for preservation purposes in 2010. These images include mostly Petoskey, Michigan people, schools, classes, parades, buildings, businesses, homes, churches, and Native Americans. Also included are images of Cross Village, Harbor Springs, Omena, Alanson, Pickerel Lake, Carp Lake, Pellston, Oden, Boyne City, Charlevoix, and Walloon Lake, Michigan, people, buildings, places, and events. Also included are numerous unidentified portraits of people, ships, boats, mills, fraternal organizations, trains, railroad stations, a “dummy” train wreck at Harbor Springs, winter scenes, sports, and festivals, Beaver River, Emmet County Bar Association, Emmet County Road Commission, and William Jennings Bryan in Chicago, 1897. Some of the images are copies of earlier images. A descriptive list is in the front of box 1.