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Leland Family Album

Object/Artifact
Large photo album loaded with cabinet card portraits of members of the Lee Leland family. Album cover is upholstered with red-pink velvet with embossed "Album" and flower motifs Twenty pages, with gilt edges, are designed to hold cabinet-card photos in multiple sizes. Tucked inside the album are family documents including 1901 Michigan Teachers' Institutes certificate for Edith Leland 1902 Saugatuck Public Schools certificate of promotion for Blanche Leland 1900 and 1901 School certificates of promotion for Lulu Leland two unsigned letters
Aunt Emma Goodrich, Neil & Lloyd Goodrich
cover inside from cover inscribed Leland Family Album Leland Family Album picture number 4 school certificates J.P. and Edith Uncle George Leland, Uncle Everard Leland Carrie & Allice Goss, Everard Leland Leland Family Album picture number 9 Left page: Uncle Thornton, Aunt Jessie, Uncle George, Aunt Bessie; Right page: Mother, Dad, Aunt Annie, Auntie Frankie

2022.56.01

The Leland family included important early Saugatuck merchants, business and politicians. Chris Yoder suspects that the album belonged to Nathan M. Leland [1856-1931], brother of Thornton [and Everard Parker Leland and George Leland], because Nathan’s children’s school promotions were tucked inside. See https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30360945/john-parker-leland

Winthers, Sally

12 in

9 in

3 in

073 Photo Albums 2

Good

The spine is broken and the latching mechanism is missing. There is some foxing and tears on the pages but the album has honorably fulfilled its protective mission: the photographs are well preserved.

Leland, E.L. "Lee" 1878-1963Leland's Department Store Building 1907Viola Fox Building / Leland Lodge / S.A. Morrison home 1850-1978Leland, Thornton W. 1850-1930Leland, Senator George 1858-1934

09/01/2022

09/27/2022