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Petoskey, Michigan, from the harbor (postcard, 1906)

TypePhotograph
Date1906
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1906
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Colour postcard view across Little Traverse Bay to the Petoskey waterfront,
Petoskey, Michigan, from the harbor (postcard, 1906)Wikimedia Commons (per-file credit in the sidecar) · Public domain

Summary

A 1906 Detroit Publishing Company postcard looking across Little Traverse Bay to the Petoskey waterfront. Petoskey was one of the mainland ports through which islanders reached the rest of Michigan, and this is the archive’s only held view of it.

Open questions

  • None outstanding.

Sources

  1. Curt Teich Postcard Archives item 2798, via the Newberry Library and CARLI; Wikimedia Commons records it as public domain. The printed caption reads "PETOSKEY, MICH., FROM THE HARBOR" and the card carries a 1906 Detroit Publishing copyright stamp and a message dated 9 July 1907. Read off the image itself.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Petoskey, Michigan, from the harbor (postcard, 1906)”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/petoskey-from-the-harbor-1906/, accessed [date], citing Detroit Publishing Co., "Petoskey, Mich., from the harbor", postcard no. 10022, copyright 1906..

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