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100 years ago in Michigan

No surprise, Michigan was a different place in 1916. Shipbuilding and mining were major industries, the govenror's firt name was Woodbridge, Ernest Hemingway was stomping around the Petoskey area and Michigan was playing some school called the Michigan Agricultural College in football. Here's a photographic look at Michigan 100 years ago.

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Ernest Hemingway at Walloon Lake

This 1916 photo shows author Ernest Hemingway fishing at Walloon Lake in Michigan. Hemingway grew up in Oak Park, Ill. and his family summered near Petoskey. Today, the Michigan Hemingway Society honors the great author's time in our state. Read more about his Michigan legacy here.

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Liberty Loan Rally

A Liberty Loan Rally at the Dodge Brothers plant in Hamtramck to support the Allied cause in World War I. Subscribing to Liberty Bonds was a symbol of patriotic duty. The bonds remain in use today, now called U.S. Treasury bonds.

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USMC Archives from Quantico, USA (Recruiting Station, Flint, Michigan, 1916) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Flint recruiting

This is a sign for a Marine Corps recruiting station in Flint, MI. 1916. The U.S. entered World War I on April 6, 1917.

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Detroit Shipbuilding Co.

A birds-eye view of freighter at the Detroit Shipbuilding Co. in Wyandotte. The company closed the Wyandotte plant in 1920.

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SS George L. Eaton

This 1916 photo shows the launch party for the SS George L. Eaton from the Detroit Shipbuilding Co.'s facility in Wyandotte. The Eaton sank two years later off the coast of France. The crew was rescued by a passing American frigate.

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Calumet miner

Miner drilling copper rock with Leyner machine to prepare for blasting. He's working in the Calumet-Hecla Mines in Calumet. The Calument and Hecla Mining Company was one of the largest mining companies in the United States in the 19th Century. The company was sold in 1968 and the last of its mines shut down in 1970.

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A mile underground

This 1916 stereoscope image shows a worker a mile underground loading and handling cars with copper ore in a Calumet-Hecla Mine in Calumet, Mich. Looking through a stereoscope combined the photos to create a three-dimensional photo.

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Detroit

Hotel Pontchartrain and Cadillac Square from City Hall, Detroit, Mich. 1916. The sign to the left is for Waitt & Bond Blackstone cigars, which cost 10 cents.

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Automobile body

This Keystone View Company image shows workers building the body of an automobile inDetroit, Mich. Keystone sold images used in stereoscopes, which used two images -- one for the left eye and one for the right -- to create a three-dimensial image by looking through the scope.

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Ford Motor plant

Employees leaving the Ford Motor Company factory in Detroit, Mich.

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Dodge plant in Hamtramck

This 1916 photo shows the carpenters shop addition at the Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, in Hamtramck.

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Dodge battery building

The battery building at the Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, in Hamtramck.

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Gov. Woodbridge Nathan Ferris

Photograph shows Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (1853-1928), Governor of Michigan at the 1916 Democratic National Convention held in St. Louis, Missouri from June 14-16. Ferris supported eventual President Woodrow Wilson. Ferris served as Michigan's governor from 1913-1917, as a Michigan U.S. senator from 1922 until his death in 1928. He received 30 votes for president at the 1924 Democratic National Convention, good enough for eighth place on the first ballot.

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Rep. Charles Archibald Nichols

Rep. Charles Archibald Nichols was a Republican representative to Michigan's 13th Congressional District from 1915 until his death in 1920. Prior to being elected to the newly created district, Nichols worked as a journalist, as secretary for for the Detroit Police Department, and as clerk. He was born in Boyne City and lived in Detroit.

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U-M President Angell's house

James Burrill Angell was the University of Michigan's longest-serving president. He ran the school from 1871 to 1909 and is credited with building it into a world-class public institution. Angell is said to have set U-M's mission of "an uncommon education for the common man." The photo shows U-M's Presidents House, where Angell lived until his death in 1916.

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Public domain | Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Michigan football team

The 1916 University of Michigan football team. The team finished 7-2, ending the season with two close losses to Cornell and Penn. The Wolverines defeated Michigan Agricultural College -- the precursor to Michigan State -- 9-0 that season.

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University of Michigan baseball team

The 1916 University of Michigan baseball team.

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Detroit Tiger Ralph Young

Ralph Young was a member of the 1916 Detroit Tigers. He was the team's starting second baseman from 1915 to 1921. At 5-foot-5 Young is one of the shortest players in Tigers history. A switch-hitter, Young was known for putting the ball in play, drawing walks and playing solid defense.

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Marquette 'apple tree'

This 1916 photo, titled "On the old apple tree," shows a bunch of white rabbits hanging from a tree in Marquette, MI.

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Hunters

Hunters and their dogs pose underneath a tree with hanging snowshoe rabbits in Marquette, MI. 1916.