Collection includes 21st century reproductions of photographic prints and stereographs made from wet glass plate negatives originally created by the Goodridge Brothers between 1875 and 1888. Photographic prints (reproductions) include: the brothers wishing everyone a Happy New Year's 1879 , (2 c.); their studio (2 images, one with a horse-drawn fire hose), both undated; group portraits of two different groups of school children and one of an African-American Masonic Lodge group (2 c.), undated and unidentified; Lumbering Camps, Log Runs,including one of the Tittabawassee River, 1883, and Lumber Mills (9 images total, three of Scott's Camp, 1888); a postman carrying a load of letters and packages (1 image and 2 c.), 1873-1879; Train (1 image), undated; Saginaw (Mich.) buildings, street scenes, and Saginaw County Court House Square (7 images and 3 c.), 1873-1880, and undated; and Saginaw (Mich.) flooded (1 image), undated. The sterescopic views include Saginaw (Mich.) buildings (3), the brothers' studio (2 images, one with a horse-drawn fire hose),1873-1884, and undated. Neil Thornton found 75 wet glass plate negatives in the outbuilding of the Beffrey family's property prior to 2007. The plates themselves are not the property of the Clarke. A number of the images from the plates were used in John V. Jezierski's book, Enterprising images (pub. in 2000), a copy of which is in the Clarke. Notations have been added to the backs of the images identifying them from the book. Copyright of the collection is uncertain.
