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Deam family glass plates

Photograph
Digital photos copied of the pre-2023 SDHC photo blog.
Deam13.jpg 832KB; the mill at Pier Cove with bridge in the background
Deam02.jpg 235KB; the new channel cut and piers circa 1906 Deam01.jpg 453KB; Cutting/dredging the Kalamazoo channel Deam03.jpg 383KB; North Land Northern Steamship Company Deam04.jpg 328KB; soldiers in uniform gathered on top decks of steamship Deam05.jpg 534KB; Two women seated on a vine entwined porch in 1900s-style clothing. One woman is holding a fan Deam06.jpg 479KB; Children posed on an upside down rocking chair with a dog Deam07.jpg 963KB; Eleanor and Bon Ami Deam08.jpg 669KB; Mackinac Fort South Parapet Deam09.jpg 730KB; Woman with bonnet hat, lace shawl and sheer, tiered overdress. Deam09tu.jpg 581KB photo touched up by Jack Sheridan in 2001; Same image as Deam09 with face darkened Deam10.jpg 843KB; same woman as Deam09 Deam11.jpg 928KB; According to Jack Sheridan Deam12.jpg 826KB; Four adults on the front porch of a house with ornate woodwork and shingle details. This image was featured as History Mystery #22 with the text: This History Mystery remains unsolved. Deam14.jpg 972KB; A woman standing in front of wooden house. According to Jack Sheridan Deam18.jpg 238KB; Cottage on Lakeshore Drive. According to Jack Sheridan Deam19.jpg 897KB; Fishtown Deam21.jpg 731KB; Saugatuck as viewed from Mount Baldhead ca 1905 - The Tourist home must have been under construction. The structure was assembled by bringing separate structures to the site. Deam23.jpg 711KB; Saugatuck as viewed from Mount Baldhead ca 1906 Deam24.jpg 1.3MB; An unpaved road, possibly the old Dug Road or Dugout Road. Deam25.jpg 634KB; The original mouth of the Kalamazoo with channel walls and the Saugatuck light. According to Jack Sheridan Deam26.jpg 588KB; Fishtown Deam27.jpg 684KB; likely the Arthur Deam17.jpg 912KB; Arthur of Chicago Deam15.jpg 912KB; The Arthur and another excursion boat, docked at Leiendecker's Inn [Coral Gables] Deam16.jpg 524KB; Beach Deam20.jpg 585KB; A convoy of whaleback lake freighters viewed from a steamer Whalebacks tu.jpg 2.2MB; touched up version of Deam20.jpg

2023.10.103

Digital scan

Eleanor (ship) 1897Bon Ami (ship) 1894 / Northshore 1920-1945Arthur (boat)220 Water/Coral Gables/Hotel Saugatuck/Columbia Hotel/Leiendecker's InnPier Cove mills 1852-1915Mt. Baldhead Hotel 1933-1959/Tourists' Home 1901Old Harbor/Channel piers pre-1906/Ox-Bow LagoonKalamazoo Lighthouses 1839/1858/1956-presentFishtownPier Cove 1839-

Transportation: waterNauticalMount Baldhead, Views from1880 Tourism steamship era -1930

Winthers, Sally

2023.10

Found in Collection

According to Jack Sheridan "I believe these glass plates were all or at least in part acquired by Norm Deam at the Bea Brown Finch estate sale. Norm and I were good friends and he loaned the plates to me to scan for the SDHS" [via email to Sally Winthers, Oct. 6, 2023]

Digital data in CatalogIt

Old Harbor/Channel piers pre-1906/Ox-Bow Lagoon

These image(s) were copied from the SDHC photo blog [or the Jack Sheridan drive if that was a superior version] in preparation for updating the SDHC website in 2023. The location of an original or printed version of these photos was unknown at the time of cataloging.

10/04/2023

06/18/2025