Marquette (City and county-seat)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a city and county-seat of Marquette co., Mich., on Lake Superior and on the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic and the Munising, Marquette and Southeastern railroads; 53 miles E. S. E. of L'Anse. It has a beautiful harbor, with a 3,000 - foot breakwater finished in 1894 by the United States government. The city contains the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Peter, a United States government building, Northern State normal school, public high school, the Peter White Public Library, a branch of the State prison, the Upper Michigan Children's Home, waterworks, electric street railroads, National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. Marquette has a celebrated brownstone quarry, iron and brick works, railroad machine shops, flour and lumber mills, several of the largest iron ore docks in the world, etc. In 1913 the city adopted the commission form of government. Pop. (1910) 11,503; (1920) 12,718. Publishers' Photo Service FORTRESS AND TOWN AT MADEIRA, WITH DATE PALMS IN THE FOREGROUND Enc. Vol. 6-p. 132 E. M. Newman MADRID, SPAIN. A VIEW OF THE GRAND VIA BRANCHING FROM CALLE ALCALA International Film Service OLD AND NEW METHODS OF TRANSPORTING PRODUCTS IN A MARKET PLACE OF MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Keystone View Company NEW ZEALAND MAORIS READY FOR A WAR DANCE IN FRONT OF THEIR CHIEF'S HOUSE © Underwood & Underwood Photo, Sumner W. Matteson THE PYRAMID OF THE SUN, AZTEC PYRAMID AT SAN JUAN, TEOTIHUACAN எஎஏ 已包 Photo, Sumner W. Matteson THE HALL OF MOSAICS IN THE RUINS AT MITLA THE WALLS ARE DECORATED WITH AZTEC CARVING Photo, Sumner W. Matteson AZTEC RUINS AT CRUSERO ON MT. GIRAN, NEAR MITLA, OAXACA Photo, Sumner W. Matteson THE GREAT FEATHERED SERPENT, CARVED BY THE AZTECS