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- Start of 1988 Rundel-Webster showcase project. Left to right: Alberta Rogers, Debbie Elmore, co-chair of the showcase. Just starting the clean up for the showcase to be held in September, 1988. Home owned at time of designers showcase by Robert Webster who purchased home from Wilbur Russel and operated a turkey farm on site.
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- Saline Area Historical Photos
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- Lucretia A. Gillett was 38 years old when she moved to Saline from Ogle County, Illinois with her father and mother in 1858. Less than two years later, Lucretia was listed in the 1860 Census for Washtenaw County as one of three Daguerrean artists (photographers) working in Saline, Michigan, the others being Susan Hulten and Lucretia's relative (perhaps grandfather), Mr. G. C. Gillett. However, by 1863, Lucretia was Saline's only commercial photographer and continued to be so for nearly thirty years.; Lucretia was born between June and July 1820 in New York State to Gershom B. and Mary Gillett. Very little is known about Lucretia's life and photographic career prior to her moving to Saline. It is quite possible, however, that she learned the art of the daguerreotype (a nineteenth-century photographic process which produced a non-reproducible photographic image on a mirror-like surface) from her relative Mr. G. C. Gillett and that she was a practicing photographer in both Illinois and New York before opening her studio in Saline. Lucretia lived with her family and managed her photographic studio at 203 N. Adrian Street (now Ann Arbor Street) for the duration of her life in Saline. During that time she focused primarily on studio portraits of many Saline families, like smaller carte-de-vi sites and larger cabinet cards. However, she is known to have taken other kinds of photographs such as architectural and novelty photos, and even Christmas cards, in addition to taking certain kinds of documentary photographs, including one that evidenced the ruins after the fire that destroyed twenty of Saline's buildings on May 23, 1881. Lucretia kept up with the advancements made in photographic technology. Whereas she was making the one-of-a-kind daguerreotypes when she first moved to Saline, by 1867 she changed over to the newer wet plate process which allowed her to make the less expensive and reproducible paper albumen prints.; Lucretia was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Saline where her father served as an elder until his death in 1875. After this time, Lucretia opened up her home as a boarding house, probably to supplement her income. It was during this time that a Miss Laura A. Green lived in the Gillett household and worked as Lucretia's servant and photographic assistant. By 1889, Miss Green had opened her own photographic studio in the nearby town of Manchester. It was by March of the following year that Lucretia sold her photographic business to the Ypsilanti photographer, George Waterman, who advertised his new business as "Miss Gillett's old stand". Until this time, Lucretia Gillett had run Saline's only successful photographic studio for nearly thirty years, but after her departure for California in 1890, a number of people struggled to fill the gap she had left, such as Waterman, Nichoson, Tremear, and even the Michigan Photo Company opened a Saline branch near the turn of the century.; Although both her mother and father are buried in Saline's Oakwood Cemetery, there is no record of Lucretia's death in Washtenaw County. A transfer of title and deed for the home on N. Adrian Street, seems to indicate that, at seventy years of age, shortly after she sold her business to Waterman, Lucretia Gillett moved to Long Beach, California with her two younger sisters, Ann Gillett and Delia Shephard and died there some time before March of 1894.
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- Saline Area Historical Photos
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- The Orange Risdon House was built in 1829. Now Oakwood Cemetery.
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- Saline Area Historical Photos
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- Ford Motor Bomber Plant built east of Ypsilanti in 1940s for World War II Air Force support. Built B-24s. Many from Saline worked at plant. Now hydramatic division of General Motors.
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- Saline Area Historical Photos
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- Sunday School Class circa 1910. Teacher: Miss Edna Smith (Aprill). Left to right: Bernard Mason, Arthur Nissley, Harold Finch, Harry Finch (twins), Eugene Crittenden. Sitting on ground: William B. Lutz (killed in World War I).; House at 202 East Michigan Avenue. Built in 1901. Julius Lindenschmidt - 1901-1909. Benjamin Smith - 1909-1923. Fred Aprill - 1923-1962. Robert Harrison - 1962-present.
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- Everett Gilbert at Speedway Station in Saline. He was the brother of Claude, Clair, Clifton, Dora, Doris and Genevive, who were the sons and daughters of Ernest and Pearl Gilbert. Clair was a milk truck driver. Their family farm on was on Willow Road in Saline Township.
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- Saline Area Historical Photos
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- Presentation of Orange Risdon Memorial Plaque at Oakwood in 1954. Left to right: Miss Blanche Mead, great-granddaughter of Orange Risdon, Mayor Henry Leutheuser, Mrs and Dr. Clever Ball, speaker at the presentation, Howell Taylor, President, Washtenaw County Historical Society.; Quote from Ypsilanti Press of June 28, 1954: After visiting the Saline Mill Players Presentation "From the Mill", the tour moved to the site of the old home of Orange Risdon from the hill that now overlooks Oakwood Cemetery. He had deeded the land for this use and also given the land to the Methodist Church on which it stands. Here, facing the Old Turnpike, now US-12, and the land and city he surveyed, is a plaque. This was the first dedication by Washtenaw Historical Society honoring a pioneer.; Greeting the society and stating the purpose, was the President, Howell Taylor. "American, the Beautiful" was played by a brass quartet, led by Arthur Kattersohn, director. Playing with him were Robert Parsons, James Austin and Gene Austin.; Mr. Taylor then introduced Dr. Clever Bald, who told the story of Orange Risdon and his deeds. He then, in turn, introduced Miss Blanche Mead, great-granddaughter of Orange Risdon. Miss Mead then unveiled the plaque. She was assisted by two Boy Scouts, Larry Lange and Owen Armbruster of Troop #46, Saline. Mr. Taylor presented the plaque to the City of Saline and Mayor Henry Leutheuser accepted the gift. "America" was played by the brass quartet.
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- Station agent Frank Rosie on left and Charles Marken, Sr. on right, around 1913.; Taken looking northwest. Water tower on N. Ann Arbor Street is shown in background and John Feurbacker's blacksmith shop to left of Frank Rosie. Charles Marken 2nd was a farmer on N. Lewis Street, a commercial thresher and saw mill operator. Charles Marken shown here was a railroad man.
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- Children march in the annual Memorial Day Parade inside the Library bookworm. May 1980
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- Saline Area Historical Photos
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- Soapy" Williams was Governor of Michigan from 1949 - 1961. Undated and unknown event, but George Woods, seated to the left of the Governor owned the hardware store in Saline.; Photo taken by Gray's Photo Service, 113 W. Michigan Ave
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