Steamer Service Advertisements
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a. Fading photocopy of a two-page spread from "Douglas, The Town to Remember" (original booklet at 2007.06.26) with description of beach bathing/swimming options and ads for Terrace Park Farm, Morgan Ice Company, Walz Sanitary Barber Shop and Oak Manor. Notation on photocopy suggest publication date of "circa 1985 or 1895" but since Big Pool is mentioned as a swimming option, the booklet is more likely from 1920-1930.
b. Photocopy of ad for Douglas, Saugatuck and Chicago Line Staunch Steamer J.S. Seaverns with Robert Reid listed as clerk and R.T. Rogers listed as master. Ad was reprinted to illustrate an article about the ship. Source unknown.
c-d. Photocopies of an advertisement from the Chicago Sunday Tribune, July 18, 1915 for the Steamers United States and Rochester. The ad lists lodging options "in the charming twin cities on Lake "Kazoo" that include the Allahee Lodge, Bird Center, Batavia Resort, Hotel Butler, Maplewood, The Ashton, Tourists' Home, Beachmont, Douglas House, Hedgerow Villa, Idylease, McVea Homestead and Rosemont plus the proprietors name. Ads for competing resorts of Waukazoo Inn, Holland and Emery Fruit Farm resort near St. Joseph also visible.
These photocopies were previously cataloged as items 95-50-1 a-d
2022.03.48
These early tourism ads helped establish Saugatuck and Douglas as vacation destinations
1880 Tourism steamship era -1930
197 Shipwrecks
Valentine Lodge/Idylease
High Camp/Allahee Lodge
Bird Center Resort
Maplewood Hotel b.1860/facade 1923
Ashton, The
Beachmont Resort
Douglas House and Tavern/Eagle Hotel/Wades Hotel
Hedgerow Villa
McVea Homestead
Rosemont Inn/Rosemont Lodge/Rose Mont
Indiana Transportation Company
Rogers, Reuben Turner 1840-1926
Reid, Robert Jr. 1855-1922
Hotel Butler/Grist Mill/Haymarket
Mt. Baldhead Hotel 1933-1959/Tourists' Home 1901
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04/08/2024