Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
S. B. # 54: Early Escanaba (Hattie Farrell) |
Catalog Number |
A-1956.004.01 |
Object Name |
Scrapbook |
Creator |
Hattie Farrell |
Scope & Content |
Binder holding approximately100 pages (pagination is Mrs. Farrell's) of clippings from local newspapers, often covering historical locations and events from earlier times. Includes: Map of roads leading to the Upper Peninsula (p. 2);Jean Nicolet probable visit to Escanaba area (p.3); Eli Royce and the layout of Escanaba (p. 4); Early days recalled by E.F. VanValkenburg; Fire at the corner of 6th Street and Ludington (p. 9); photo of Alex M. Sutherland (p. 12); the selection of Escanaba as County seat (p. 12); Meaning of name "Escanaba" (13); 70th anniversary for Delta County n 1932 (13); Greenhoots among early pioneers (14); the Tilden House and other early hotels (15, 16); Fire at 300 Ludington Street (18); Example of "Iron Money" (19); Place names in Hiawatha (19); founding of the State Savings Bank (20); Indians voting in election day in Old Escanaba (20); Joe LeMay house on 7th Street (21); demolition of the Handley Building at 303 Ludington (21); recollections of James Champ (21) (23); Early ordinances and permits (22); Railway mail clerks in early days of the UP (22); Lakeview Cemetery history (23); Dr. Banks bought first auto in 1903 (23); Obituary for Jim Champ [1942] (23); Old Boarding House photo (24); Escanaba Marine Band (24); Filming of the 'Way of the Eskimo' movie in Escanaba (24, 98): Programs for several plays and one comic opera (p. 25, 26); article about a visit to Russia by Mr. & Mrs. George Jermain (27); Golf club histories for Esc. Country Club, Nahma Club and Highland (31); Demolition of the Wells Boarding House (32); picture of Andrew J. Bredahl (32); Picture and article about Julius Greenhoot (32); Picture of Charles M. Frost (32); Account in 1906 of San Francisco Earth Quake by Escanaba resident, Roy Hiller (33,34, 35); Escanaba men who played Major League baseball (35); naming of cottages along Ford River Road (36); Earthquake felt in Escanaba in 1935 (36); photo of Harry Work (36); Letters from J.N. Hiller (37, 38); Early school in Escanaba (39, 41, 42, 43, 44); Minutes of first school board (40); Article on Helen McVicar De Voto (45); Article on School Census of 1874 (49, 50, 51); Anthony Manley and his family (52); opening of the Junior High (52); 1891 Commencement program and Christmas Exercises (53); Deed to property 1880 (Mary Van Dyke) (58); Delft Theater Program for D.W. Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation (72); 1907 Play program from High School play 1907 (72); 1910 Esc. School Board photos (74); Play Program EHS (77); cast 1919 play (78); High School Exhibit 1919 (79, 80, 81); Ice breaking and first ships into the harbor (82); 1934 School Board Members (83); Photos of Frank O. Beck, L.N. Schemmel, Dr. A. J. Carlton; Alfred J. Peltier (83); Delta Hardware Company (87); Photos of Delta Hardware managers, W.R. Smith, A. H. Groesbeck, F.J. Earle, C. B. Smith (88); Birdseye Veneer (89); Photo of Charles J. Byrns (90); Iron Ore Shipping from Escanaba (91); Escanaba park and toboggan slide (93) ; picture of Lewis Rose (93); Article on the Peninsula Division Tie Plant (97); 1928 dedication of air field (98); Rail veterans Henry E. Valentine and William McKeever to be honored (104); Ad for Escanaba as the Hay Fever Free zone (104); Selden Family home 410 2nd Av.e S.(105); Clinton Oliver to retire from Coal Business, Obituary (138); 2 Delta County women who served in World War I, Genevieve Carroll and Agnes Fleming (107, 108); Masons honor Albert Young (111); Photo of Theodore Farrell and article honoring his 83rd birthday (111); 1928 Masonic lodge list of past matrons and patrons (112);J.B. Frechette article (113) Obituary (133, 134); John Gunderson 95th birthday (114); A.W. Norblad, new governor of Oregon (115); Colonel L.W. Oliver transferred to Washington (115); Rev. John Hubbard (116); O.B. Fuller, including portrait (117); Letitia Hewlett (119, 120); Atty. Herbert Rushton (photo) (120); 1888 class has reunion (120); Richard Stack's baseball career (121); Photo of John K. Stack Jr. and family (122); Jane Glavin, Florence French, Marjorie Nee studying in Paris (123); Christian Science Society (128); Joseph J. Embs retires from Post Office (128); Lillian Anderson former resident World's Fair Queen (130); Ed Erickson turns 80 (130); Obituary for Amanda O. Mason (131); Use of dogs to carry mail (131, 132); Obituary for John Henry Oliver (132); Obit. for Ole Erickson (132); Obits. for Karen S. Strom (Mrs. Lewis), John A. Lambert, J.B. Frechette (133) ; Obituary for Alice M. Walters (135); Obituary for Anna F. McKana (135); Obituary for Solomon Greenhoot (136); Obituary for Caroline Tyrrell (136, 137); Obituary for James B. Wilkinson(136); Death of Jessie Beath (138); Obituaries for A.H. Rolph, L.KJ. Edwards (139); Obituaries for James R. Greene, Ulrika Abrahamson (141); death of County Agent Joseph E. Turner (140); Obituaries for Peter Arnold; George Brotherton; Mabel Roland (140); Obituaries for Mary Howard Scott and Frederick H. Stephenson (142); Death of J.K. Stack, Jr. (143); Obituaries for Margaret Jane Frost, Charles Frost, and Edward Lees Frost (145); Death of Richard B. Stack (144); Death of O.B. Fuller and Frank H. Atkins (146); Deaths of Captain Wallace H. Van Dyke; William B. Hewlett, William John Hatton, Elizabeth Hewlett Smith, Julia Hiller (147, 148); deaths of Jane Anne Stack (Mrs. J.K.), Fabian J. Defnet (149); deaths of Harriet Haring, Mary (Marston) Groesbeck and Mrs. Edward Voght (157); 1958/59 City planning report (152); Clark Bigler tells of early education in Delta County (153); Iron Ore Port prospect in 1942 (155); Slabs with Tennyson poem wording discovered by Alfred Sealander (154) |
Collection |
Archives |
Search Terms |
Bredahl Family Chicago & North Western Railroad Delta County Delta County Courthouse Escanaba Country Club (Golf Course) Escanaba Ore Docks First National Bank, Escanaba Ford River, MI Furnace property Greenhoot Bros. Nahma, MI Native Americans - Delta County Oliver House, The (Escanaba) Tie Plant, Escanaba Way of the Eskimo (1911 movie) Wells, MI |
Subjects |
Baseball players Christian Science churches Churches Coal Commencements Elections Fires Furnaces Golf courses Iron mining iron ore Mail service Mailmen Movies Names Plays Shipping Stagecoaches Streets Surveying |
People |
Abrahamson, Ulrika (Mrs. Erick) Anderson, Lillian Arnold, Peter Atkins, Frank H. Beath, Jessie M. Beck, Frank O. Billgrel Bredahl, Andrew Brotherton, George Byrns, C.J. Carlton, Arthur J. (Dr) Champ, James Defnet, F. J. Earle, Fred J. Edwards, Lucius K. Embs, Joseph English, George Erickson, Ed Farrell, Theodore Frechette, John B. French, Florence Frost, Charles Frost, Edward Frost, Margaret Fuller, O. B. Fuller, O. B. Glavin, Jane Greenhoot, Solomon Groesbeck, A. H. Groesbeck, Mary Marston Gunderson, John Haring, Harriet (Henricks) Hatton, W. J. Hewlett, James Hewlett, Letitia Hiller, J. N. Hiller, Julia E. Hiller, Roy Hubbard, John B., Rev. Lambert, John A. LeMay, Joseph (Big Joe) Manley, Anthony Mason, Amanda Ophelia McKana, Anna F. McKeever, William Nee, Marjorie Norblad, Albin Oliver, Clinton B. Oliver, John Henry Oliver, L.lewellyn W. (Colonel) Peltier, Alfred J. Rolph, Albert H. Rolph, Albert H. Rose, Lewis Royce, E. P. Rushton, Herbert J. Schemmel, L. N. Scott, Mary Howard Sealander, Alfred Semer, Mrs. John A. Smith, C. B. Smith, Elizabeth Hewlett Smith, William R. Stack, Jane (Mrs. John K.) Stack, John K., Jr. Stack, Richard Stephenson, Fred Strom, Karen (Salthammar) Sutherland, Alex Turner, Joseph E. Tyrrell, Caroline (Mrs. Allen) Valentine, Henry E. Van Dyke, Mary Van Dyke, Wallace Henry VanValkenburg, E.F. Voght, Edward C. (Mrs.) Walters, Alice Maria Wilkinson, James B. Young, Bert (Albert) |