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Boardman roundhouse ca 1910

Road construction: Teams of horses working on a deep cut.

Unk friend in uniform.
A Photograph album of pictures taken by Hanley Wilhelm and his friends taken before WWI of their trips around the area.

Joyce & Howard Rohdy with their daughter Julia. Joyce was an English "war bride" who Howard married while he was in the army and stationed in England during WWII. The picture was taken at the family home at 908 State Street.

South Manitou light house

Group photo of multiple children. The following notes from Randy Ortwein's letter to Brenda Moore (5/11/1998) related to this photo:

"On the back it said: Traverse Picnic. One of the girls marked in ink by someone is Violet Burkholder. She was…

Crow Bar Hotel, Jail & Sheriff's quarters

Herbert Boughey home at 615 S. Union St.

Eight Indian gentlemen in Elk Rapids. Jonas Wandase, Wasaquam

Mecanical cherry sorters like this one replaced hand sorting. Cameras identified dark defects in cherries and compressed air blows the rejects away. Each machine could sort a ton per hour.