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  • Collection: Peninsula Historical Postcard Collection

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Image of a houseboat on Torch RIver, Kalkaska County, Michigan. This river connects Skegemog and Torch Lakes.

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Black and white image taken from an airplane of lake features south of Traverse City proper. The image includes views of Tibbets, High, Spider, Arbutus and Chandler lakes. Image also marks where High Lake Resort and Evans Store north of High Lake areā€¦

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Image of Silver Lake in Garfield Township, located south of Traverse City proper. Although the postcard is unaddressed, there is a postmark on the back, from Traverse City (Mich.), dated 2 August 1945 11am.

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Black and white image of the Old Mission Cider Mill, ca. 1910s-1920s, given the producer of the postcard. Image includes the mill, a barn in the background, seven men and many wooden barrels.

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Colored photograph cut from an unknown magazine, on glossy paper. Image is an aerial view of people harvesting cherries while standing on cherry-picking ladders.

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Black and white image of scenery on the two-track road leading to Old Mission Point. Image is of trees, undergrowth and a dirt, two-track road.

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Image of bluffs on the shore of Old Mission Peninsula in black and white.

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Black and white image of the Old Mission Lighthouse, with the lighthouse keeper posed in the foreground.

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Image of a stretch of beach belonging to the Birchwood Resort on Old Mission, on the eastern arm of Grand Traverse Bay. Image shows a young man standing on the shore, with an unoccupied canoe in floating away in the foreground.

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Image of Ford Island in West Grand Traverse Bay, taken from Old Mission Peninsula. In the foreground is a young man sitting on a large boulder, near the shore. Ford Island is also known as Marion Island or Power Island.
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