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Image ID number
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Title
Steam Plant

Description
Detroit Edison engineers and managers pose in Vassar, Michigan's steam plant (1949). The plant had provided electricity to the area prior to conversion to a different source. In the photo, retired Assistant Superintendent Lee R. Stewart symbolically shuts off the main valve on the old plant. From left to right: Carl Varnum (Customer's Office Representative, Vassar), Benjamin Lovejoy (Assistant Production Superintendent, Vassar), George Bonadurer (Production Department Superintendent, Vassar), Lee R. Stewart (retired Assistant Superintendent, Vassar), Lee Sparling (District Production Superintendent, Lapeer), Mahlon Vance (Acting District Supervisor, Caro).

Location and Date

Vassar, Michigan, USA
6/6/49 (Note: pre-2000 dates are approximate)

Credit
Richard Swanson/Swanson Media

Camera/Source
Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic (4x5 inch black & white negative)

Lens
Kodak Ektar 6" (152mm) f/4.5

Model/property releases available?
No/No

Keywords
workers, management, managers, steam plants, 1940s, 1950s, black and white, black & white

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