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Title
Scrapbooks
Date(s)
- 1900 - 1915 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1891-1966)
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Scope and content
- large insurance ledger made of fiber board used as a scrapbook
- ledger measures 11.25" X 17.5"
- Front cover reads: Policy (illegible word), Insurance Company of North America
Contents: - large loose photo of sailing ship
- 23 pages devoted to news clippings on North Shore drownings, Young Men's Lifesaving Club in Highland Park, fundraisers for the Club boathouse, articles praising the Club; building contracts for boathouse
- large newspaper photo of Eastland disaster
- article dated 1915-05-08 on sinking of Lusitania
- postcards of ships, bridges, lifesaving stations in Michigan, Illinois,and Indiana, some addressed to Roland Brand
- b/w photos of ships, lighthouses, unidentified persons
- newsclippings on Highland Park parade
- news article on water intake pipe repair
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- English
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Notes area
Note
Two postcard stuck together
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Dates of creation revision deletion
2014-02-26
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Jenny Klein