Stereoscope Cards, Allegan Series
Photograph
Six stereoscopic twin-photos mounted on pink cards. The back of the cards are orange with a paper label that reads "Allegan Series, National Photo, View and Copying Co., / Steroscopic and 10x12 Views A Specialty / Atwater, Garrison [& George] Artists / Rooms over Bohm's Grocery, No. 15 Union Block, Allegan, Mich. (P.O. Box 773) / N.P.V.& C. Co. The labels have a "View of" blank line where the title of each image is hand written in pencil.
1 "Camping Party at the Harbor" - A woman stands and a man sits at a table, three tents, oars, firewood, flags, a hammock and trees in the background. The location is likely the Park Street camping area at the base of Mt. Baldhead
2 "A Picnicking Party" - In the left-side foreground, four girls sit at the edge of a log-strewn body of water. Six boys are standing on the logs further away. In the middle distance, a double-masted sailboat is moored. The oppose bank of the body of water is covered in trees. Likely location is Kalamazoo Lake or some other wide area of the Kalamazoo River that had logging activity.
3 "The Tug Twilight" A steam-powered tug sits on glassy-smooth water. A man stands on the roof of the pilot house. This may be the "small steamer" Twilight" that was sent to rescue the J.E. Martel in 1886.
4 "The Harbor, showing the Piers" - A double-masted schooner is tied up to the old Saugatuck channel piers. Note the (short lived) navigational light and catwalk. c1900
5 "Scissors grinder 14 years without a hat" - A bearded man drives a wagon bulled by a spotted ox down a muddy road.
6 "Lake Michigan by Moonlight" Shadowy image of a water wheel with the remains of a structure nearby. This may be a mill at Pier Cove.
Also called stereographs
2023.18.11
Stereograph
Twilight (boat)Park Street Camp GroundsOld Harbor/Channel piers pre-1906/Ox-Bow Lagoon
Transportation: water1880 Tourism steamship era -1930Camping GroundsNautical
Winthers, Sally
card
3-1/2 in
7 in
075 Historical Photographs
Good
07/15/2023
10/16/2024