Ferry service 1949

Photograph

Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

Name/Title

Ferry service 1949

Entry/Object ID

2022.21.183

Description

Simmons negative number 183 A group of teens, one young lady wearing saddle shoes, load up and are rowed across the Kalamazoo in a flat-bottomed scow. During this period there may not have been a chain ferry operating so rowboats were the only ferry option. Index text: 183 0/5 Saugatuck - Ferry 5/1949 Detroit hikers on scow ferry 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

Mt. Baldhead Hotel 1933-1959/Tourists' Home 1901, Chain Ferry Landings

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 10, 2022

Update Date

June 3, 2024