Kory photo album 1911-1913

Photograph

Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

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Dynamite the donkey

Name/Title

Kory photo album 1911-1913

Entry/Object ID

2021.72.47

Description

Scans of a photo album's pages with many shots of large groups of people posing at beaches, by the Bird Bath House, on boat launches, on the porch at Pine Grove, and around town. Some photos are from other places like Calumet Park and Rocky Ledge Park. Also images of a bird hunter and his dog, a family gathered around a Christmas tree, a pleasure boat the Buckeye and sailboat Carrie and the Big Pavilion. Many images dated 1913. The digital images were scanned November 2002. Source unknown.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Digital scan

Subject Person or Organization

Dynamite the Donkey(s), Big Pavilion 1909-1960, Turning Basin/Party Cove, Bird Bath House, Pine Grove, 220 Water/Coral Gables/Hotel Saugatuck/Columbia Hotel/Leiendecker's Inn, Mt. Baldhead Observation Tower/Deck

Context

This collection of rollicking friends and family snapshots includes images from places other than Saugatuck-Douglas but also gives a good sense of what a vacationing was like in 1913.

Collection

1880 Tourism steamship era -1930

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2021.72

Source or Donor

Sheridan, John "Jack" O. 1938-

Acquisition Method

Donation

Location

* Untyped Location

Digital data in CatalogIt

Create Date

October 16, 2024

Update Date

October 16, 2024