Name/Title
Slide album: 1950-70s and Civil WarEntry/Object ID
2022.51.01Description
Black, 3-inch wide spine binder loaded with 20 pages of color slides with shots of people, places and five pages of purchased Blackhawk Film Civil War images of battles, generals, railroads, uniforms, Gettysburg, Lincoln, and Brady photos.
Many images of Saugatuck's August 1968 Centennial celebrations, buildings, boats on the river, Ox-Bow, commercial fishing, Butler Street, Lake Kalamazoo and the river.
Photographer and collector unknown.
Tucked in album cover are two pages of an index in distinctive handwriting.
Page A People:
1. Photographer at Ox-Bow by maybe at the Waldorf Castoria or ice houses
2. smiling woman in red dress standing by white framing
3. single woman walking in front of Pepsi Truck
4. Clothesline art show outside Koning Hardware
5. #109 tropical park man sitting on statue see 69302
6. clothesline art show in front of Ox-Bow Inn
7. men in swim trunks and navy and army (or maybe police) uniforms Big Pavilion dock marked Jesick Case 8/1958
8. bundled woman at Christmas tree farm #112
9. brown horse bulling a buggy/wagon in parade in front of Fruit Growers State Bank (white building with dental details along top edge), may be a centennial or 4th of July
10. clothesline art show
11. man photographing or viewing river or lagoon beside picnic at water's edge
12. fire fighters spraying water on a smoking white building
13. C Grenhalgh and Jack Sewers reeling fish nets
14. people watching a dog sled race in snow
15. man with patterned shirt holding up bear cake in a kitchen
16. woman walking down an autumn road
17. Model T type car in parade, same corner as buggy photo on this page, sign on windshield says Poll Museum and Commercial Record
18. #100 man (see A5, A15) and woman outside of house with red brick and limestone details at 3445 Blue Star Hwy, Saugatuck, MI 49453. May be Lucille Hedglin in photo since she is recorded on the property deed. House built 1950.
19. C Grenhalgh and Jack Sewers reeling/drying fish nets
20. Woman crossing Butler Street.
Page B People:
1. #118 Red Truck Ford sign Port of Call, with a ship's wheel replacing "of" on Mason Street at the Round the Corner ice cream shop. Man with bag standing by truck passenger door
2. Women and four children dress in historical pioneer costumes. The boy is dressed as a Native American. Likely for Centennial celebrations. Likely on Butler Street with Phil's in the background
3. #108 two people standing in by a building with Antiques sign. Same building as slide A2
4. two people looking at a gravestone
5. smiling middle-age man reading the newspaper on a lounge chair in the sun on a patio
6. man standing in field of tulips, greenhouse in the background, compare H 1 and 2.
7. woman standing between two shanties, likely the waldorf and castoria at Ox-Bow
8. Woman standing by lagoon shore at Ox-Bow, old pier pilings visible in water, canoe and Waldorf-Castoria in background
9. #122 person posed by Shakamak State Park [Indiana] entry sign
10. 9. couple posed by Shakamak State Park [Indiana] entry sign
11. Young couple eating cotton candy at a fair
12. Harnessing a horse to a buggy at a fair or race
13. double Ferris wheel ride at a fair
14. woman waving from a merry-go-round or carousel
15. artists at Ox-Bow with Inn in the background, painting papers laid on the ground
16. artist at work
17. parade float with queen and court in white, decorations are white trellis and red flowers "Dou" visible on float base
18. Loretta Biller, middle aged, 1955, Sau Peo 30
19. Folks in historic costume inspecting an early car, like a car rally
20. Woman in red walking away from the camera on a glorious autumn colors road, compare A16
Page C People:
1. Saugatuck sea scouts marching in parade 1953 with Gallinipper flag
2. Boy scouts marching in parade 1953
3. Man dressed in white with white Community Cleaners Free Pick-up barrel marching in parade in front of Fruit Growers State Bank. Plummers [Plunners?] Good Food sign visible next door.
4. Same man as C3 in front of Rexall drug store on Butler St.
5. and 6. Same family as slide B2
7. and 8. people in historic costume marching in Butler St. parade. May be 1955 Old Saugatuck Week Centennial celebrations
9. 691 Saugatuck High School Band by Bill Simmons
10. Chamber of Commerce float
11. Frank Wicks SAU-Peo 24 putting up or taking down American flags 1958
12. Banner over street promoting Jazz Fest Kai Winding, Dizzy Gillespie and Barbara Carroll
13. Woman walking on road with dog,
14. Couple looking at grave, compare B4
15. Woman walking in woods, back to camera
16. Woman at Ox-Bow shack looking out a pilings in Lagoon.
17. Possibly the skywatchers observation tower
18. Possibly a class at Ox-Bow
Page D People:
1. Man sitting by building with Island Queen banner overhead, possibly Anchor Park. Island Queen schedule sign in background.
2. Man walking around the corner of a cement block building dragging a fabric sack. Across the street from Community Cleaners
3. Football game
4. Young boys playing baseball. Man coaching batter.
5. Three people outside a building with a "Poultry Rabbits" sign. May be Allegan Fair.
6. #127 C. Grenhalgh and Jim Sewers reeling fish nets for drying.
7. Two boys sitting on 55 gallon drums and paddling in the river. Drums are painted with spots and have a hobby horse heads.
8. Art fair on the Village Green
9. and 10. seawall construction on river edge
11. Clothesline show at Ox-Bow
12. Jim Sewers green fish shanty with boiler, net reels and view of Mt. Baldhead in the distance.
13. Baseball game, same as D4.
14. Man reading in the sun, same as B5
15. Steamship moving up the river, people watching from Willow Park area. Autumn Mt. Baldhead in the background. Fishing trawler boats at left.
16. Person on merry-go-round carousel take a photo of the photographer, compare B14
17. Frank Wicks putting up/taking down American flags on Butler Street, see C11
18. Miss Saugatuck Douglas 1968, Parade queens waving from back of convertible, on Butler Street in front of Bay Building.
19. Woman in historic dress at boardwalk parking lot, 1968.
20. Man with SLR camera at air fair
Page E People:
1. Saugatuck marching band parading up Butler street, The Butler in the background. August 1968. Likely Saugatuck Village Centennial.
2. Electric car in same parade as E1
3. Johnny Appleseed float, same parade as E1
4. Marchers in Native American attire, same parade as E1
5. Antique firetruck with sign for Nashville Centennial, same parade as E1.
6. Kids at parade, same parade as E1
7. Art Fair at Village Green with tennis court in background, possibly July 1968
8. Older couple, Feb 1973
9. Woman standing outside Woman's Club with notice for Centennial Tea
10. Art Fair, July 1968
11. Three women sitting with table laden with snacks, January 1969
12. Two women standing on snowy street, Mid-century building in background and maybe Kalamazoo River, March 1968
13. Woman serving tea with fancy service, Aug. 1968
14. Community Cleaners guy with barrel, now striped like a convicted prisoner, Aug. 1968
15. Wagons in 1968 Centennial parade, like E1, etc.
16. Tandem bicycle in 1968 Centennial parade, like E1, etc.
17. Five people posing behind a table. Oct. 1968
18. and 19. Student Prince players in convertible in 1968 Centennial parade
20. Three women standing outside building, Aug. 1968
Page F People
1. 1968 Centennial parade Silver Lake float
2. and 4., 11., 12, People in historical costumes on the street
3., 5., 7., 10., Mature women having a tea party, some historical costumes
6. People on the deck of a steamship by lifeboat
8. and 20. 1968 Centennial parade
9. Woman with blooming amaryllis flower July 1968
13. Three mature women gathered at a table
14. Same couple as E8
15. 1968 Centennial parade kid's canoe float
16. Art fair, two women with Art Club calendar, July 68
17. Four people on floral couch, Feb 1973
18. Man wearing false beard
19. Two women on floral couch, see F17
Page G People
1. 1968 Centennial parade
2. Two people in costume, same man as F18.
3. and 5. Women sitting in gardens, Feb. 1973
4. Couple on the street
5. Three women at picnic bench at beach
7. Art Fair July 1968. Dorothy E. Zinke works on display
8. Possibly Peggy Boyce at Art Fair
9. Keewatin tour, compare D15
10 Four seated women, Slide dated Nov 69
11. People gathered around a table, Oct 1968
12. Parade people in front of Coral Gables, painted green
13. to 20. 1968 Centennial parade
Page H Landscapes and Buildings
1 and 2. man standing in field of tulips, greenhouse in the background, compare B6.
3. Empty field with row of houses
4. Old wooden house with reflections
5. John Baptiste Martel house 345 Grand St.
6. St. Peters new church on the Blue Star Highway
7. Winter view across Kalamazoo River toward Holiday Hill
8. Ruins after a fire, likely the Mt. Baldhead Hotel
9. Building with large columns, maybe Maplewood Hotel
10. Ox-Bow Inn
11. Keewatin being towed up river #104 from Big Pavilion parking lot
12. Dredging by Bultema Dock and Dredge
13. Old post office/Heath Building on Butler St. marked Babe Baker, SAU-Peo21 1958
14. Possibly Lake Street
15. Saugatuck Fire Dept. old station behind Reed's Livery building and next to Captain Brittain's house (bank parking lot 2022) on Griffith St.
16. Street with Visitor Information banner suspended over the road and pointing toward the Chamber of Commerce office. Sign for Methodist church next door
17. Corner of Butler and Water/Culver streets. Saugatuck Village Hall
18. Dock structures over the water
19. and 20. Buggy or sulky horse racing
Page I Landscapes and Buildings
1. Autumn scenic with cottage
2. Autumn scenic with Jim Sewers shanty and net reels and Mt. Baldhead radar tower prior to radome
3. Autumn scenic with cement stairs, maybe Mason St. stairs or stairs by Village Green
4. Autumn scenic with curving street and arch of Big Pavilion in the distance
5. Autumn scenic with river and fish shanties
6. Frank Wicks on flag duty at Butler and Hoffman at Woman's club
7. Autumn scenic with river, maybe Ferry Store, and Mt. Baldhead radar tower prior to radome
8. Buggies and wagons parked outside a half-painted building
9. Frank Wicks collecting or installing flags SAU-Peo 29 1958
10. D Vil Ch St.Pete, Old St. Peters catholic church in Douglas
11. Saugatuck palette sign, likely at Blue Star Hwy and Lake St.
12. Old Post Office/Heath building SAU-Peo 18 Mike Kenney 1958
13. and 14. New St. Peters Catholic Church on Blue Star Highway, see H6
15. Cottages on the lakeshore, likely
16. Houses covered in snow
17. Douglas UCC church
18. Coral Gabels after snowfall
19. October 1957 Autumn Butler Street looking south from Village Green
20. Paddlewheel boat pulled up at marina on Water Street at Main Street end. Ivy Inn building at 421 Water Street visible at left. Maybe site of Wicks Park/Dockside Marketplace/Mermaid in 2022.
Page J Landscapes and Buildings
1. Autumn scenic with concrete stairs at corner of Hoffman and Griffith
2. Houses at 245 Water Street and 241 Water Street (Phelps/Wilcox)
3. Looking north on Butler Street toward Koning Hardware
4. Village green playground with Maplewood and Koning Hardware
5. Duneland with Private Property No Tresspassing sign
6. Bultema Dock and Dredge Co. Manistee No. 6 scow, see H12
7. 325 Butler Street [Santa Fe Traders] and 317 Butler Street [Saugatuck Gallery/Singapore Book Store] 1958 Fr VS
8. and 9. Tara restaurant
10. Unknown park with benches, maybe Village Green, 1958
11. Southeast corner of Village Green, 1958
12. Christian Science Church, November 1970
13. and 15. "Turner Corner" house in snow
14. Unknown house and street, Aug 1968
16. Houseboat on the river, viewed from deck, November 1970
17. January 1969 snowfall on white-sided house
18. Christmas tree with single pineapple ornament
19. Decorated Xmas tree with church man standing beside it, January 1969
20. Feb 73 snowfall and white-sided house, see J17
Page K Landscapes and Buildings
1. and 2. "Turner Corner" house in snow, see also J13 and 15. Feb 72
3. Pink geranium on a windowsill
4. Same house as J14 in winter
20. as good as blank
Page L Landscape
1. Old Allegan Road paved with sand
2. Duneland blowout
3. Bayou landscape
4. View of pumphouse and Mt. Baldhead (no radome) from Jim Sewers docks. No wake signs.
5. Bayou or wetland
6. Sunset between two young cottonwoods
7. Meteors in western sky viewed from east side of river
8. Sign for Pompano Beach, Florida
9. A large tree by a sidewalk
10. shadows from nets or fencing
11. large oak-like tree by plowed field
12. very sharp image of tree along the river, Mt. Baldhead in the background
13. snow on a lawn, roofs in the distance
Page M Water Scene
1. and 2. Oval Beach sunsets with fence
3. Capitol 1 and fishing tugs at Jim Sewers docks
4. Likely Kalamazoo Lake
5. through 10. and 12. Lake Michigan sunset
11. Couple walking on a beach
13. Green trawler at Jim Sewers docks KZR-fishers
14. Pilings and wrecked boat hull, likely Lake Kalamazoo
15. Two men on sailboat on Lake Kalamazoo
16. Sailboats rafted at Big Pavilion docks
17. Powerboats docked behind the Butler before top of building removed
18. Saugatuck Marine
19. Powerboat passing Jim Sewers docks and shanties
20. Docks on river's edge
Page N Water Scene
1. Ducks on the Kalamazoo as the Keewatin is towed past
2. Gleason's marina
3. Cottages from across body of water, possibly Lake Street
4. Mt. Baldhead, green haze over image
5. View across Kalamazoo Lake of Butler and Big Pavilion, possible from Saugatuck Marina
6. St. Peters church from Tower Marine area
7. Possibly Saugatuck Marina
8. Small sailboat on Ox-Bow Lagoon
9. Possibly big bend in Kalamazoo River
10. Mt. Baldhead from across the river
11. Boat tied to a post in a bayou or lake
12. Artsy shot of driftwood on beach
13., 14., 16. and 19 Jim Sewers docks and gil-net tug
15. View from Mt. Baldhead from Big Pavilion to Mt. Baldhead Hotel including Anchor Park and Edgewater
17. Keewatin being towed by red tug
18. River bank and wooded dunes beyond
20. View of Butler and Mt. Baldhead from Blue Star Bridge area
Page O Water Scenes
1. Sunset at Oval Beach with old pier pilings in the water
2. Land and water, possibly upriver from Saugatuck
3. through 5. Keewatin, moored in river, being towed, view from deck
The next five pages are purchased Civil War slides.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
SlideSubject Person or Organization
Saugatuck Woman's Club 1904-present, Art Club, Saugatuck Douglas, St. Peter Catholic Church, 220 Water/Coral Gables/Hotel Saugatuck/Columbia Hotel/Leiendecker's Inn, Big Pavilion 1909-1960, Mt. Baldhead Hotel 1933-1959/Tourists' Home 1901, Artist's Palette sign, Saugatuck, Oval Beach 1936-present, Water St. Fishing Docks, Butler Street, Mount Baldhead Dune/Park, Saugatuck Village Square/GreenSubject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Kalamazoo River, Kalamazoo LakeCollection
Buildings: Lost, Commercial businesses, Military, wars and veterans, Festivals, events, parades, celebrations, Nautical, Buildings: Homes, cottages and private residencesCataloged By
Winthers, SallyLocation
Building
2nd floor archivesRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Keewatin (ship), Christian Science Church/Barnett Bldg., Oval Beach 1936-presentRelated Events
Event
Old Saugatuck Week, August 1955, commemorating 125th anniversary of W.G. Butler landingEvent
Saugatuck Village Centennial 1968Create Date
July 11, 2022Update Date
April 3, 2024
