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  • Collection: Peninsula Historical Postcard Collection

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Colored notecard photo of a postcard of Marion Island, Traverse City, Mich. "This is a Hint from Traverse City. Still looking for that letter."

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Colored postcard of Marion Isle from Dock, Traverse City, Mich.

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Postcard labeled, "Middle Road Peninsula, Traverse City, Mich." Could be referring to the road now known as Center Road. The image is a photograph that was colored in printing. Image is of a dirt lane, with dense coverage of trees on either side.…

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Black and white postcard of Miner Cottage Old Mission, Mich.

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

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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.

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

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Colored postcard of Missionary Church, 1842, Old Mission, Mich.

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Photographic postcard in color featuring the missionary church for which Old Mission Peninsula derives its name. Peter Dougherty founded the mission in 1842; his home was built in the same year. The date of construction of the church building is…

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Black and white postcard of Montague and Barr Cottages Old Mission, Mich.
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