Invitation to a Sailing Party and Reply

Object/Artifact

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Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

Name/Title

Invitation to a Sailing Party and Reply

Entry/Object ID

2015.13.12

Description

A hand-written and illustrated invitation to a sailing party for Sunday morning, 10 a.m., October 28, 1906. The invitation is offered by Skipper Hartman, Mate Wilimouskyo [?] and Bo'sun Bielenberg, the crew of the good ship Pirate. The invite includes a faux ad promoting Saugatuck as a "pretty pitcher village. Contains a variety of characters, wrecks, sandsuckers, derelicts, art freaks, a brass cannon, pretty girls and a abundance of other material including hens and cider within a short distance." The invitation is on long sheet of dark paper that was folded in half. Invitation was initially on one side of 25-inch long by 4-inch wide, brown, flecked strip paper but the sheet has separated at the folds A hand-written response in verse accepting an invitation to a 10:00 sailing party on the ship Pirate signed "(Riely) Trolley Line Jess". The response covers six, 5.5x5.5" pages that are bound together at one corner with a red ribbon. Each leaf is a different kind of paper. The reply is illustrated with pasted clippings of a woman holding a shot gun and an a woman and child standing outside a "teepee." The response mentions "Bieley", "Charlie the Mate", "Bandles Ax", "Hen roosky ville Artists Institute" This response was formerly cataloged as 2016.03.12 but at some point it was paired with the invitation above.

Context

Possibly a lighthearted example of artists, perhaps housed in or aware of the Bandle farm connection to the Art Institute of Chicago, expending a lot of effort to embellish their social lives.

Collection

Nautical, 1880 Tourism steamship era -1930, Artists

Cataloged By

Voss, Mary

Acquisition

Accession

2015.13

Source or Donor

SDHS collection

Acquisition Method

Donation

Made/Created

Date made

Oct 28, 1906

Lexicon

Search Terms

Boating Invitation, Pirate (ship)

Location

Filing cabinet

Files Accession Number

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Hartman, Pirate (ship), Graham & Morton Transportation Co. 1874-1950

Person or Organization

Bielenberg

General Notes

Note

Status: OK Status By: Mary Voss Status Date: 2015-06-22 Notes: This invitation was found in the Finch/Brown home during a sale. Status Date: 2016-01-25

Create Date

June 22, 2015

Update Date

June 20, 2024