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Graham and Morton Line brochure PDF

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Public domain PDF of brochure booklet produced by the Graham & Morton Transportation Co., Chicago. "The Dustless Way to Happy Land" Published in St. Joseph, Mich., A. B. Morse company, c1915 28 pages with illustrations and map. Original size 24 x 22 cm. Publicly available from the Library of Congress or the HathiTrust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7fr06g1k&view=1up&seq=1&skin=2021 G&M ships did not dock in Saugatuck.
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Page 13 with photo of Saugatuck viewed from Mt. Baldhead Description of Saugatuck and Douglas Page 25 list of Saugatuck resorts; Tourists' Home, Allahee Lodge, Forward Movem't Hotel. The Wenonah, White House, Rosemont Resort- Idylease, Slumber Bluff Resort, Oak Grove Summer Home Wade Cot. Summer Res't Hillside Home Hotel Butler Shady Hill Resort Private Residence Rose Mont-— Elmwood Apple Grove Farm Resort Cottages for Rent Murray Hill Summer Rest St. Pierre Farm Maplehurst Heinze Cottages Ashton Private Home Batavia Resort Private Home Barber Farm Rose Cottage Park House Hotel Davis McVea Homestead Private Home Fort Snelling Cottage for Rent Riverside Hotel Bird Center The Miot House Summer Home Idler's Rest Back cover PDF of the entire document made available by the HathiTrust

This brochure, with its idealized images and prose, likely convinced many Chicago residents to visit Saugatuck and other west Michigan lake shore resort communities in the mid-1910s.

Winthers, Sally

Summer ResortsPassenger Steamship TravelLodging

St. Pierre Farm/Resort

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