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Michigan's Delightful Summer Resorts brochure, 1915

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15-page brochure printed in 1915 by the Indiana Transportation Company telling all about the virtues of vacationing in Saugatuck and Douglas. Includes a list of hotels and tourist homes also a sailing schedule from Chicago. Maps include the Indiana Trans. Co.'s route across Lake Michigan and a detail map of Saugatuck-Douglas plus general information about traveling by steamship.
Michigan's Delightful Summer Resorts brochure, 1915 picture number 1
Michigan's Delightful Summer Resorts brochure, 1915 picture number 2

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The brochure promoted the area for boating, bathing (swimming and lounging at the beach), canoeing, fishing, duck hunting, dancing at the Big Pavilion, fruit farms, camping, automobiling and renting cottages. Mentions James Fenimore Cooper's Oak Openings, likens the view of Park St. from across the river to Switzerland's lakes and hills, claims Kalamazoo is a hyphenated cognomen of "Kahla" the name of Indian maiden and "Mahzoo" the name of her intrepid lover, and that lost Singapore's population was once 2,000.

1930+ Tourism, brochures, guides and mapsTransportation: water

Voss, Mary

Indiana Transportation Company

1915

9-1/4 in

4-1/4 in

Files Accession Number

Good

Indiana Transportation CompanyUnited States (ship) 1909-1946

Status: OK Status By: Mary Voss Status Date: 2011-07-11

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07/11/2011

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08/17/2024