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WD & Helen Corlett Sailing Collection

Photograph
A collection of glass-faced slides of people sailing the Saugatuck Yacht Club fleet. A few of the slides have labels with dates that range from 1939 to 1945. "WD" stands for Webster David Corlett, the donor's grandfather who was from Oak Park, and later, River Forest, IL. Many of the ±140 slides have discolorations between the glass that surface cleaning did not address. Attached to this entry are a sampling of the sharpest, cleanest images. Jack Sheridan, SDHC photo expert, has retouched some of the sample images. No slides have been opened to clean under the glass. Boats with "P" on the sails indicate they are Papoose class vessels.
P6 Papoose Pavilion ca 1936 editedJOS.jpg 270KB; Image cleaned up by Jack Sheridan. See bottom of entry for more retouched photos.
P6 Papoose Pavilion ca 1936 raw.jpg 2.9MB; raw scan 39pap027.jpg 1.7MB 39pap2030.jpg 2.2MB; According to Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 8/6-12.jpg 2.8MB A Close Start SYC Aug1942.jpg 2.7MB CYS-41-two boats.jpg 1.6MB Lark L1 SYC 1939.jpg 1.6MB P6 Nimbus SYC 1940.jpg 2.6MB P6-star.jpg 2.9MB p11-fruit exchange.jpg 2.1MB Papoose P1 1939.jpg 2.8MN PS-Ferris Wheel.jpg 2.7MB SkipperCrewMimi-Aug1941.jpg 4MB SYC building-Ps-fruit exchange.jpg 2.7MB SYC club L July 1937.jpg 3MB SYC-C4.jpg 3.1 MB SYC-P.jpg 2.9MB SYC-P2-two sailors.jpg 3.3MB SYC-P9-wrights.jpg 3MB SYC-p9.jpg 2.6MB SYC-pavilion.jpg 3.5MB SYC-PY6-41A.jpg 3.7MB SYC006.jpg 2.9MB; According to Jack Sheridan, Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 Image retouched up by Jack Sheridan, Oct. 2022 What to look for on the archive shelves 7 slide boxes

2022.64.01

Slide

Student sailors and club members in papoose, nimbus and other small sailboats.

Saugatuck Yacht ClubBig Pavilion 1909-1960Wright's PavilionSaugatuck Fruit Exchange 1917-1956Bridge, Blue Star Highway 1936

Kalamazoo Lake

Early history of a Saugatuck social and educational institution. Photos taken when the clubhouse was located at the south end of Butler street.

NauticalClubs and social organizations

173 Saugatuck Yacht Club

Poor

The slides are in poor condition with scuffs to the glass, protective surfaces. On some slides the tape edging has failed, causing moisture or particles to create flaws in the images. Some film has faded severely or completely. Sept. 2022: Slides have been surface cleaned with microfiber cloth and isopropyl alcohol (only where needed on the glass) and rehoused in clean boxes.

Saugatuck Yacht Club

08/29/2022

04/05/2024