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← Online Collections/Loyal Legion Portrait Albums Collection: Civil War Veterans
January 1893
Bust portrait of George S. Hoyt in uniform, head turned to the left. Photographer credit reads "Photo by Bell, Sault Bay Mills, Mich."
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DISCOVERY
One search field reaches exhibits, events, stories, collections, threads, programs, and shop products in a single index. Threads — named editorial throughlines that bind the institution — are how visitors arrive at the rest.
One archive, three buildings, named editorial throughlines binding them. The Mill Creek thread cites a Museum exhibition, a Library photographic collection, an AAHI collecting initiative, a walking tour, and a Juneteenth roundtable — on one URL.
The exhibit page carries an opt-in immersive scene: a wireframe-fidelity 3D reconstruction of Mill Creek Valley before demolition. Reduced-motion visitors get a storyboard fallback; the Three.js bundle only loads on click.
Maps, manuscripts, periodicals, photographs, and the papers of a city — federated from 200,000 records at utils.mohistory.org. Every fixture in this wireframe carries its real permalink back to the source record.
Long-form journalism, curator essays, and oral-history excerpts in the Society's voice. Each story is taggable into a thread, so the archive and the editorial layer keep speaking to each other.
Press the chat icon in the bottom-right and ask 'Tell me about Mill Creek.' The assistant answers with numbered citations that link to real wireframe URLs — threads, records, programs — so every claim is verifiable from the conversation.
MAKE IT YOURS
Researchers can pin records to a working draft as they browse — citations, notes, and an export draft. Storage is localStorage in the wireframe; the production wiring is named (Blackbaud/Aeon).
Twenty real products harvested from the Museum Shop's public Shopify storefront — Gateway Magazine, Bissinger's, the AAHI book — render as a native section of the site, with a federated bag that round-trips to Shopify-hosted checkout.
Education programs need digital primers. The Mill Creek Basics quiz demonstrates the format: branching feedback, accessibility built-in, and a results screen that surfaces the next thing to read.
VISIT & SUPPORT
Add events to a lightweight itinerary that spans the Museum, Memorial, and Library. Open it from the utility bar; the count chip reflects the in-progress plan.
Four annual tiers in a single horizontal row with one marked MOST POPULAR. Membership keeps general admission free at all three properties and underwrites the collecting initiatives.
The Library's voice is studious, archival, exact. The genealogy starter is the entry surface for the most common reading-room request: how do I begin a family-history search using the Society's holdings?
Skip links, visible focus rings, AA contrast, reduced-motion baselines, semantic landmarks, and accessibility badges on every event. The commitments are enumerated on one page so the committee can audit them in one read.
Every place the wireframe meets a production system — CRM, donations, ticketing, email, collections, search — is marked with a bracketed slot. Real vendor shortlists are named so the committee can read the production wiring at a glance.