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  • Collection: Peninsula Historical Postcard Collection

The Wegaus.jpg
Postcard photograph of the ice cream store that was located in Old Mission.

OM Church.jpg
Postcard photograph of the Congregational Church in Old Mission

Archie church.jpg
Postcard photograph of the Archie church

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Photographic postcard in black and white, of "The Golden Tower" of Old Mission Peninsula. Other similar postcards in the collection are dated from 1926 to 1929. Likely an observation tower for tourists.

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Photographic postcard with black and white image. Image is of "The Golden Tower", a lookout created for tourists. In the foreground are cherry trees and parked automobiles. On the back of the postcard, "Tower built around a large poplar tree of a…

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Black and white photographic postcard; image of "The Golden Tower", likely a tourist lookout on Old Mission Peninsula. Postcard is postmarked 12 August 1926.

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Photographic postcard of black and white image. Image features the view tourists could take in at the top of the Golden Tower, a lookout tower designed for tourists. Features a dirt lane and orchards, looking down. Similar images from the collection…

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Old Mission Point Lighthouse, at the tip of Old Mission Peninsula.

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Black and white photographic postcard of Old Mission Point Lighthouse, undated. Surprisingly, the distance between the lighthouse and the edge of Grand Traverse Bay appears to be only a few yards; today, that distance is much more substantial.

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Image of Ford Island in West Grand Traverse Bay, taken from Old Mission Peninsula. In the foreground is a young man sitting on a large boulder, near the shore. Ford Island is also known as Marion Island or Power Island.
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