Livery Rowboats

Photograph

Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

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Name/Title

Livery Rowboats

Entry/Object ID

2022.21.698

Description

Simmons negative number 698 Artistic shots of boat livery rowboats. Index text: 698 0/2 Saugatuck - ferry Old rowboats, patterns From photographic negatives created by William R. Simmons, editor of the Commercial Record newspaper between 1941 and 1961. More information may be in the 2001 SDHS book "Off the Record"

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

340-360 Water/Dockside Marketplace/Boatyard Village/Hiestand's Edgewater Boat Livery/Heath Grist Mill, Walker's Saugatuck Boat Livery

Context

Room on the River Up to at least the mid 1950's my girl friends and I would row a boat up and down the river. We hardly ever met a yacht or another boat.-- Pat (Meyer) Diepenhorst

Collection

William (Bill) Simmons

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2022.21

Location

Box

194 Simmons Negatives

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Simmons, William "Bill" R. 1890/1-1966

Create Date

March 23, 2022

Update Date

August 13, 2025