Snapshots - A Saugatuck Album

Book

Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

snapshots a Saugatuck album

Name/Title

Snapshots - A Saugatuck Album

Entry/Object ID

2019.35.103

Description

n 1830, William and Mary Butler entered the Saugatuck harbor and began the first permanent settlement of Allegan County. Within half a century of the Butlers? arrival, the mysteries and grandeur of the Saugatuck-area landscape were legendary and were incorporated into the prose and poetry of many writers, including Carl Sandburg, James Fennimore Cooper, and Edgar Lee Masters. By 1910 an unending stream of visitors filed in, some with paintbrushes to the summer art colony, some armed with hammers to build cottages?and some with cameras. This book of amateur photographs is an attempt to give voice to some of the thousands of people who came to several little villages? Saugatuck and others nearby along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. The snapshots are entertaining to be sure, but more than that they provide a fascinating window to the past and how people responded and contributed to the mystique of this beautiful landscape. "Published in conjuction with the exhibition "Snapshots: a Saugatuck album" sponsored by the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society at the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Museum May through October 2003." Includes index. 182 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm index

Collection

Books

Cataloged By

Slusar, Vern

Acquisition

Accession

2019.35

Lexicon

Search Terms

Saugatuck, Douglas, Photographs, Maps, shipbuilding, Big Pavilion, beach, sports, fruit growing, Saugatuck (Mich.) -- Pictorial works., Photography -- Michigan -- Saugatuck -- History., Photography., Michigan -- Saugatuck.

Book Details

Author

Schmiechen, James A., Kemperman, William

Publisher

SDHS Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society 1986-2017

Place Published

City

Douglas

State/Province

Michigan

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Date Published

2003

Call No.

977.401 SCH

ISBN

0965704238

Notes

Copy No.: 2

Location

Shelf

Library

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Schmiechen, James A.

Person or Organization

Kemperman, William

General Notes

Note

Status: OK Status By: Vern Slusar Status Date: 2020-08-13

Create Date

August 13, 2020

Update Date

August 4, 2022