Jack Kreager's racing sailboats
Photograph
Four b/w photos and a postcard. The photos show Jack Kreager posing with his model sailboats or by a real sailboat. The color postcard shows an aerial view of riverside marina (Dexter Press 7173-C, 5-6/25) with a note on the reverse side "Saugatuck Yacht Service where Jack Kreager kept his boat. This was "home" away from home in the summers! Late 1960s"
2024.47.01
Print, photograph
Kreager, John "Jack" E. 1921-1991
John "Jack" Kreager, son of Dr. Herman E. Kreager, grew up in Saugatuck. He later became a dentist/orthodontist in the Kalamazoo area. A note from the donor Lisa Hatch: "My great uncle was Carl Bird of the ship building business, his wife Dorothy Waltz Bird being my grandmother's sister with whom she lived in her later years. I think my uncle "Jack" Kreager was inspired by this relationship when he built his model ships."
Family HistoryNauticalChildhood
Winthers, Sally
2024.47
Hatch, Lisa
Donation, unconditional
Pond yachtspond boatssailboat modelboyhood
Files Accession Number
10/11/2024
11/07/2024