Mark Jefferson Photograph Collection

Explore Photographs Taken by the Former EMU Chair of Geography Between 1900 and 1935.

  • Brick veneer installation on a new house "Building a brick veneer house. Hurdley's, Normal St. Ypsilanti. Summer, 1912"

    Photograph showing the exterior envelope of a newly constructed house at 298 North Normal Street Ypsilanti, Michigan. It is noted the house will be a brick veneer style, is located on Normal Street, and was constructed in 1912. There is an upclose view of the wooden sheeting that goes on the exterior of the house before siding is put over the top of it. Holes are cut in the wooden frame of the house for windows to be installed. Workers have begun laying the exterior veneer brick around the foundation of the house. Jefferson would often use the same negative to create a lantern slide as well as a mounted stereographic card. When possible we have indicated if it is a repeat image, however this is not always the case. As such, there may be a corresponding digitized glass lantern slide, and a mounted stereographic card associated with this stereographic negative within the Mark Jefferson Collection.
  • Brick veneer installation on a new house "Building a brick veneer house. Hurdley's, Normal St. Ypsilanti. Summer, 1912"

    Photograph of the exterior envelope of a newly constructed house at 298 North Normal Street Ypsilanti, Michigan. It is noted the house will be a brick veneer style, is located on Normal Street, and was constructed in 1912. There is an upclose view of the wooden sheeting that goes on the exterior of the house before siding is put over the top of it. Holes are cut in the wooden frame of the house for windows to be installed. Workers have begun laying the exterior veneer brick around the foundation of the house. Jefferson would often use the same negative to create a lantern slide as well as a mounted stereographic card. When possible we have indicated if it is a repeat image, however this is not always the case. As such, there may be a corresponding digitized glass lantern slide, and a mounted stereographic card associated with this stereographic negative within the Mark Jefferson Collection.
  • Brick veneer installation on a new house "Building a brick veneer house. Hurdley's, Normal St. Ypsilanti. Summer, 1912"

    Photograph of the exterior envelope of a newly constructed house at 298 North Normal Street Ypsilanti, Michigan. It is noted the house will be a brick veneer style, is located on Normal Street, and was constructed in 1912. There is an upclose view of the wooden sheeting that goes on the exterior of the house before siding is put over the top of it. Holes are cut in the wooden frame of the house for windows to be installed. Workers have begun laying the exterior veneer brick around the foundation of the house. Jefferson would often use the same negative to create a lantern slide as well as a mounted stereographic card. When possible we have indicated if it is a repeat image, however this is not always the case. As such, there may be a corresponding digitized glass lantern slide, and a mounted stereographic card associated with this stereographic negative within the Mark Jefferson Collection.
  • Brick veneer on a new house "Building a brick veneer house. Hurdley's, Normal St. Ypsilanti. Summer, 1912"

    Photograph of the exterior envelope of a newly constructed house at 298 North Normal Street Ypsilanti, Michigan. It is noted the house will be a brick veneer style, is located on Normal Street, and was constructed in 1912. There is an upclose view of the wooden sheeting that goes on the exterior of the house before siding is put over the top of it. Holes are cut in the wooden frame of the house for windows to be installed. Workers have begun laying the exterior veneer brick around the foundation of the house. Jefferson would often use the same negative to create a lantern slide as well as a mounted stereographic card. When possible we have indicated if it is a repeat image, however this is not always the case. As such, there may be a corresponding digitized glass lantern slide, and a mounted stereographic card associated with this stereographic negative within the Mark Jefferson Collection.
  • Bridge (Roman) Portugal over left tower. Olives. Donkey

    Stone bridge with Romanesque arches crossing the Tagus River. Mountains rise in the background and a donkey walks on the dirt road in the foreground. Olive trees are growing on the other side of the stone block wall in the foreground. Slide labeled with text, "Made by G.R. Swain, 713 E. University Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan." Swain was staff photographer at U of M from 1913 to 1947.
  • Bridge being constructed into cliff

    The bottom of an iron trellis bridge being constructed into a rocky cliff wall. A large ladder allows access down the rock face to the bottom of the iron girder. Vegetation grows out of the side of the rock wall, obscuring portions of the striated rock beneath.
  • Bridge near Constantine

    Soldiers marching in formation through an archway on a bridge near Constantine, Algeria. A town of Early Christian architecture can be seen sitting on top of a cliff in the background.
  • Bridge over waterless Eurotas near Sparta. Like Spanish wadies and arroyos

    Steel overhead cross braced bridge over the waterless Eurotas river near Sparta, Greece. The exposed riverbed appears to be finely ground rocks and sand. The bridge is supported by concrete columns that the riverbed surrounds.
  • Brock's Monument. Niagara, just behind escarpment at Queenstown. General Brock of the British forces was killed here in 1812

    Brock's Monument at Niagara Falls in Queenstown, Ontario, Canada. It is noted that General Brock of the British armed forces was killed here in 1812. The monument is a large obelisk with a carved capital and a statue on top. Tourists walk the grounds around the monument, which are landscaped with grasses and trees.
  • Brockton south from Grove St. Salisbury Plain. June 1901

    Landscape in Elmwood, Massachusetts. Several houses can be seen on the hills above a small stream that cuts to the plain. Grass covers the ground and trees dot the landscape.