Name/Title
Postcard collection, Hungerford familyEntry/Object ID
2024.13.12Description
Postcards from the Henry Hungerford family collection.
Four real photo postcards: Skating Rink, Butler Street 344-c with Plummer's Good Food, Bathing beach at turning basin, Yacht "Stranger" moored at Skating Rink. All unmailed.
Another copy of the 344-C Butler Street postcard by the L.L. Cook Co., is at 2024.15.06.
A digital version, postmarked 1956, can be viewed at "Saugatuck, Mich.". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tinder/x-1460/tinder-rppc-002919. In the digital collection David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. February 01, 2026.
This postcard shows business signs for "Plummer's Good Food", "Eat" in a crow-shaped sign,
"Rexall" Drug Store, "Saugatuck Food Center", "Soda Lounge" and ? "Island".
Six early b/w or colorized postcards: High School, Tourists Home (mailed with text on reverse), View from Mt. Baldhead 1881, Old Chain Ferry scow, Old Chain Ferry scow colorized, Swift Villa colorized with long notch removed from left edge.
Sixteen color postcards: Kalamazoo Lake and River, Big Pavilion, Mt. Baldhead Radar tower without radome, Goshorn Lake Resort, Red Barn Theater, water skiing at Oval Beach, view from Harding Hotel, Mi-Ro Motel pool, Oval beach parking lot, boat on Kalamazoo Lake at night, Island Queen (2), Peterson Mill, Water Skeeters at Ship n' Shore, Anchor Park with Island Queen (oversize postcard shown sideways - 3.5x8.25")Subject Person/Organization
Goodrich Transit Co. warehouse/East Shore Pavilion Skating Rink/Brittian Boatyard, Stranger (ship), 146 Butler/Articles/Thomas Green/Soda Lounge/Fruit Growers Bank 1894, Butler Street, Mize Rose Garden north side/Fruit Growers State Bank/Clapp's Grocery/Flint's Shoes/Walz Meat Market/Griffin/Tanner, Mize Rose Garden south side/Soda Lounge/Crow Hotel/Davis Hotel/Davis Restaurant/Stimson & Winslow building, Turning Basin/Party CoveCollection
Commercial businesses, Buildings: Commercial, 1930+ Tourism, activites, tours and attractions, 1930+ Tourism, lodging, hotels and B&BsCataloged By
Winthers, SallyAcquisition
Accession
2024.13Source or Donor
Hungerford, JaneAcquisition Method
Donation, unconditionalDimensions
Height
3-1/2 inWidth
5-1/2 inLocation
* Untyped Location
196 Hungerford familyRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Mount Baldhead Dune/ParkRelated Places
Place
* Untyped Place
Kalamazoo LakeCreate Date
March 22, 2024Update Date
February 2, 2026
![early b/w or colorized postcards back: Upper right postcard mailed from "E.H." to Mr. H.H. Hungerford at 909 Sheridan Road, Chicago in 1917 "It is so lonesome here with bowling alley and everything boarded up - Hayade [or Wayade?] only boat lying at Stranger dock. Today is cool - Mrs. Allison likes Hotel. Will be home Monday might late"](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/4124/414e4e71-e851-11ee-8537-059318cd5fa4-vdTHrOK.lg@2x.jpg)
