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Color aerial photograph of West Bay, Holiday Inn, Senior Center and edge of Old Mission Peninsula west shore, 1965-1975.

Black and white image of a number of men, women, and children, believed to be indigenous, with tents and small watercraft at an area on Grand Traverse Bay known colloquially as "Squaw Point," ca. 1870. The area is believed to be where the Boardman…

Black and white photograph of Willard and Milton (Butch) Petertyl sailing on West Bay in 1922.

Black and white postcard with a view of the bay titled "Tree Top".

Two black and white photographs of overviews of Traverse City looking east taken from a hill, 1883-1900. Note the lumber schooner at the dock.

Black and white photographs and one color photograph from a sanitation report done in about 1929 showing sewage "hot spots" along the Boardman River and the bay. Note on the map the sewer lines and the unfortunate location of the fresh water intake…

Black and white Aerial photograph of downtown Traverse City and the West Bay front. Taken by Jess McGregor, pilot, for Milton D. Bryant.

Color photograph of a quiet view of West Bay from Bay Street, with railroad tracks in the foreground, ca. 1975.

Color postcard of Grand Traverse Bay near Spring Park, c. 1908.

Black and white photograph of Traverse City Light and Power electric generators on the bay before it was removed sometime after 2000. This was a coal fired unit.