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'Escanaba I' Film Reels
This project, and projects like it, are funded through our Collections Fund.

Digitization is just one form of conservation that the Museum uses to preserve the objects in our collection. In 2024, the Museum hosted its first 'Tri-Cities Treasures' event, at which we were able to to feature the digitized reels following a short fundraising campaign. As a result, TCHM was able to help the community rediscover not one, but two magical moments from Tri-Cities history: the 'Escanaba' on a fair-weather tour to Traverse City, and, from the opposite season, footage of the 'Escanaba' faithfully serving on ice duty, breaking out ships caught fast in the frozen lake.
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