Browse Items (136 total)

  • Collection: Peninsula Historical Postcard Collection

Marion Island.jpg
Colored photographic postcard of Marion Island (also known as Bassett, Ford, and Power Island) in West Grand Traverse Bay. Image shows the island, a building on the island, the dock, and a two-deck steamer at the dock. Image was captured from…

Edgewood Road.jpg
Colored photographic postcard of Edgewood Road, leading to Edgewood Resort, on Old Mission Peninsula.

Edgewood Resort.jpg
Colored photographic postcard of Edgewood Resort, showing the front entrance, the main sign, and a number of pine and beach trees.

Lover's Leap.jpg
Black and white image of Lover's Leap at Old Mission, overlooking East Bay, 13 August 1924. The location was identified by Katy Stilwell Kern as "on the north side of Old Mission Harbor, down the two track and past the Old Mission cottages. Vestiges…

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Image of the Lincoln Courthouse in Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan. Re-erected building. Postmark on back is dated 29 October 1936.

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Image of a houseboat on Torch RIver, Kalkaska County, Michigan. This river connects Skegemog and Torch Lakes.

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Black and white image taken from an airplane of lake features south of Traverse City proper. The image includes views of Tibbets, High, Spider, Arbutus and Chandler lakes. Image also marks where High Lake Resort and Evans Store north of High Lake are…

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Image of Silver Lake in Garfield Township, located south of Traverse City proper. Although the postcard is unaddressed, there is a postmark on the back, from Traverse City (Mich.), dated 2 August 1945 11am.

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Black and white image of the Old Mission Cider Mill, ca. 1910s-1920s, given the producer of the postcard. Image includes the mill, a barn in the background, seven men and many wooden barrels.

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Colored photograph cut from an unknown magazine, on glossy paper. Image is an aerial view of people harvesting cherries while standing on cherry-picking ladders.
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