DescriptionSimmons negative number 183 A group of teens, one young lady wearing saddle shoes, load up and are rowed across the Kalamazoo in a flat-bottomed scow. During this period there may not have been a chain ferry operating so rowboats were the only ferry option. Index text: 183 0/5 Saugatuck - Ferry 5/1949 Detroit hikers on scow ferry From photographic negatives created by William R. Simmons, editor of the Commercial Record newspaper between 1941 and 1961. More information may be in the 2001 SDHS book "Off the Record"