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Neighboring Farmers & County Officials View The Wreckage Of A Navy Plane Crashed Near Saline, September 1942 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Neighboring Farmers & County Officials View The Wreckage Of A Navy Plane Crashed Near Saline, September 1942 image
Year:
1942
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 11, 1942
Caption:
WRECKAGE OF NAVY PLANE: Two men in a Navy training plane were killed in the crash shown above. The plane pancaked into a farm field this morning about five miles west of Saline, and then bounced about 450 feet further to crash into a tree. Neighboring farmers and county officials view the crumpled wreckage, parts of which were thrown by the impact to points hundreds of feet away. Identity of the two men was not revealed by the Navy.

Wreckage Of A Navy Plane Scattered Across A Field Near Saline, September 1942 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Wreckage Of A Navy Plane Scattered Across A Field Near Saline, September 1942 image
Year:
1942
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 11, 1942
Caption:
WRECKAGE OF NAVY PLANE WIDELY SCATTERED: The Navy training plane which crashed twice on a farm near Saline this morning is shown in the background of the picture above, which was taken from the spot where the plane first crashed, making a hole ten yards long and two and a half feet deep. The two occupants of the plane were instantly killed. Parts of the plane, some of which are shown above strewn along the recently plowed field, are also scattered over as extensive an area on the other side of the tree, a top branch of which the plane cut off as it sped to the earth.

Glass Chicken House On The Pryce Farm, December 1939 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Glass Chicken House On The Pryce Farm, December 1939 image
Year:
1939
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 13, 1939
Caption:
GLASS POULTRY HOUSE: This glass block poultry house on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pryce on Huron River Dr., five miles east of Ann Arbor, represents a development in the construction of chicken homes with an eye to increasing egg production. The lights are turned on at 5 a.m., and the glass walls admit most of the natural light during the day without being transparent. The Pryce's 200 White Leghorns have jumped their production from two dozen eggs a day to six dozen in three weeks in their new home.

Belgian Horses On The Blaisdell Farm - Bridgewater Township, April 1937 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Belgian Horses On The Blaisdell Farm - Bridgewater Township, April 1937 image
Year:
1937
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 21, 1937
Caption:
PRESENTING RACHEL AND HER FAMILY: Rachel, beautiful matron of a growing herd of Belgian horses on the Blaisdell farm in Bridgewater township, is shown above with part of her family and their caretakers. The horses, reading left to right, are: Rachel, Ritchie, King and Ruby. The three men, reading left to right, are Lewis Blaisdell, the owner, Arthur Lowrey, cousin of the owner, and Elmer, father of Lewis. Since graduation from Clinton High school in 1931 Lewis has raised a herd of nearly a dozen pedigreed Belgians from the pair which was his graduating gift.