An early ice house being loaded with 100 pound blocks of ice from the bay. The ice was then covered with sawdust for insulation. This picture is on a calendar (718.000000.185)
Black and white photograph of State Hospital workers loading materials into the upper floor of a storage building. It is probably straw as this building was used for ice and the straw was used for insulation.
Black and white photograph of a herd of Holstein cows grazing in a field with the Northern Michigan Asylum in the background, 1900-1920. The Asylum had a herd of prize cows during the early part of the twentieth century.