Publication: Valley Prtg Co, 1907, Saginaw
10.5" x 7.5" oblong gilt stamped wrappers. 192 pages, tied at spine, illustrations, preface, maps. Book attempts of show the transition of Saginaw from a thriving little city with one industry (timber) to a thriving progressive metropolis with varied industries of world-wide importance to include furniture manufacturing, coal mining, the sugar beet industry, etc. Information of the history of Saginaw, city government, various city departments, postal facilities, churches, libraries, hospitals, schools, parks, railroads, newspapers, banks, retail stores, coal, lumber, manufacturing, a 3 page listing of "What Saginaw Has" listing such things as 8 dealers in agricultural implements, 2 telephone systems, 53 church congregations, a handsome court house, 1 wood split pulley manufacturer, 2 importers of tea, and many others ... all told told in photographs and text. In additional to the many photographs dispersed throughout the text, there are 59 pages of photographs only. Front wrapper and with first 8 pages with small stain to top corner along with wear to the extremities. Lovely photographs and with much interesting information.
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