File:Bison skull pile.jpg
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English: 1892: bison skulls await industrial processing at Michigan Carbon Works in Rogueville (a suburb of Detroit). Bones were used processed to be used for glue, fertilizer, dye/tint/ink, or were burned to create "bone char" which was an important component for sugar refining. |
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circa 1892 date QS:P,+1892-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
Source | Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library |
Author | Unknown authorUnknown author |
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current | 23:51, 9 February 2011 | 5,689 × 4,448 (2.36 MB) | Kaldari (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description=Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer. Courtesy of the . |Source=http://www.raeky.com/bison/, originally Burton Historical Collection, Detroit P |
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File change date and time | 15:14, 2 October 2009 |
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