Collection Item - Saugatuck-Douglas History Center

Celebrities or performers visit news

Archive

Scope and ContentScans of Commercial Record newspaper clippings about visits or near visits of celebrities, traveling shows, lecturers, strangers, or other people thought noteworthy enough to merit mention in the paper. This is a small sampling of the stories to be found in the paper.

cr1880040901LouisianaJubileeSingers.jpg; Louisiana Jubilee singers at Oddfellow's Hall. Ad notes that the singers are

cr1880050701ColLFCopelandLectures.jpg; Colonel L.F. Copeland lecture

cr1882012001MrsLivermoreaFraud.JPG; Mrs. Livermore failed to show up from Redpath Lyceum Bureau of Chicago

cr1883011901HumorousReadings.jpg; Miss Julia Lee reading considered poorest lecture of the course

cr1886070201PressExcursion1.jpg; Captain George Crawford and the boat Purdy transported 60 reporters from Richmond.

cr1887090901KickapooIndianMedicineCompany.jpg; Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. free show at race course with Dr. Hole-in-the-Day

cr1889071901SBShawRevival.jpg; Gospel tent in Morrison's grove under leadership of S.B. Shaw, editor of Michigan Holiness Record

cr1890091201GypsiesNearTheBridge.jpg; gypsies encamped near bridge

cr1891091101CircusToCome.jpg; Max Wixom Circus Co.

cr1893101301MissCharlotteMStanleyVisits.jpg; Miss Charlotte M. Stanley of New York and her pug dog

cr1899042801JohnPGavit-BoysResortInSaug.jpg; John P. Gavit from the Chicago Commons, editor of the

cr1903013001DickThompsonJubelieTroup.jpg;

cr1904080501BentleysJessiejamesShow.jpg; Bentley's Jesse James Show, Freed the Juggler

cr1904090204JaneAdamsSpeaksAtSwiftCottage.jpg; Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago will speak at Swift Cottage in teh Forward Movement Park

cr1907032201Isrealites-sofDouglas.jpg; Mother Elinor and

cr1907040501MotherElinor-Isrealites.jpg; Follow up story about leadership conflicts in a House of David faction

cr1908022101ManyHearWmJBryan.jpg; Democrat William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925 speaks at Price's Rink.

cr1923060108EdgarLeeMasters.jpg; Poet Edgar Lee Masters of Chicago visiting parents at H.W. Masters farm on the Lake Shore

cr1938080505CorneliusVanderbiltJrParkedinDouglas.jpg; Cornelius Vanderbuilt Jr. parked his car by the new bridge in Douglas

cr1972072011TomEagletonVeepPick.jpg; Tom Eagleton Democratic nominee for vice-presidency

Entry/Object ID

2024.01.37

Collection

NewspapersRacism

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2024.01

Source or Donor

Yoder, Chris

Acquisition Method

Donation, unconditional

Notes

These Commercial Record newspaper clippings — scanned by Chris Yoder in the 2000s — had been available on the pre-2023 SDHC website. The content has been moved to this online catalog for safekeeping. Publication dates are indicated in the year/month/day/page file name. For example "cr1938102801Description.jpg" = Commercial Record, 1938, October, 28th, page 01

Location

* Untyped Location

Digital data in CatalogIt

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Crawford, George 1846-1895

Create Date

05/02/2024

Update Date

05/02/2024