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Photographic postcard with black and white image. Image is of "The Golden Tower", a lookout created for tourists. In the foreground are cherry trees and parked automobiles. On the back of the postcard, "Tower built around a large poplar tree of a…

Black and white photographic postcard; image of "The Golden Tower", likely a tourist lookout on Old Mission Peninsula. Postcard is postmarked 12 August 1926.

Photographic postcard of black and white image. Image features the view tourists could take in at the top of the Golden Tower, a lookout tower designed for tourists. Features a dirt lane and orchards, looking down. Similar images from the collection…

Old Mission Point Lighthouse, at the tip of Old Mission Peninsula.

Black and white photographic postcard of Old Mission Point Lighthouse, undated. Surprisingly, the distance between the lighthouse and the edge of Grand Traverse Bay appears to be only a few yards; today, that distance is much more substantial.

Image of Ford Island in West Grand Traverse Bay, taken from Old Mission Peninsula. In the foreground is a young man sitting on a large boulder, near the shore. Ford Island is also known as Marion Island or Power Island.

Image of a stretch of beach belonging to the Birchwood Resort on Old Mission, on the eastern arm of Grand Traverse Bay. Image shows a young man standing on the shore, with an unoccupied canoe in floating away in the foreground.

Black and white image of the Old Mission Lighthouse, with the lighthouse keeper posed in the foreground.

Image of bluffs on the shore of Old Mission Peninsula in black and white.

Black and white image of scenery on the two-track road leading to Old Mission Point. Image is of trees, undergrowth and a dirt, two-track road.