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    To: Mrs Ray Forrester, Scotts, MI Having a fine visit with Frank, Helen & kiddies. Love Adde

    To: Mr & Mrs H. Courter, Saranac, MI, Box 4 Don’t have trouble with [flies?] on this trip. Had to wait two days in Harbor Beach for the wind to go down so we could cross Saginaw Bay. Nettie & Enos

    To: Mrs John Jehle, Huron St., Elyria, OH Alpena, Mich, Sept. 24, 1924 My dear Mrs Jehle, Wonder how weather is down there. This a.m. there was a heavy white frost. I am going to County Fair this p.m. Wish you were with me. With Love, Mae Friday

    To: Miss Bela Addlern ? Deckerville, MI Hello kid Having a lovely time. Mrs Davis

    Alpena Power Company's Norway Point Dam (aka Seven Mile Dam) across the Thunder Bay River in Alpena County, Michigan during late construction. Built 1923-1924 as an electrical plant and to control Spring flooding.

    To: Mr. Carl DeMeritt, Whitmore Lake, Michigan Thursday morning, 10 oclock Dear Carl & Hattie: We reached here last night - 35 cars about 150 people – roads are fine and we are feeling pretty good. Such wonderful scenery and the pine trees I never tire of looking at them. ...

    To: Mrs A.R. Marshall, Dansville, MI My dear Mama, This a picture of the place we visited, I think, last night where we saw Thunder Bay. The water was quite rough [?] [?] little white waves. A cool breeze almost chilling was blowing off the Bay. Sr. Doolittle, [?] Warren’s ...

    To: Prof. A.F. Linn Ph.D., Sharbot Lake, Ontario, Canada Dear Doctor and John, We are enjoying another lake – not so good fishing but nearly as pretty as Sharbot. I hope you are having a pleasant summer. [? Shatzer]

    Ninth Street Bridge (built 1924) across the Thunder Bay River, Alpena, Michigan.

    Chisholm Street Bridge. This bridge was damaged during a Spring flood in 1923, but not rebuilt until 1932 when it was renamed the George Washington Memorial Bridge. Note the logs in the Thunder Bay River, which were being moved to the sawmills at the mouth of the river.

    Chisholm Street Bridge. The City Ice House or the Dehring Bottling Company is the building in the background. This bridge was damaged from a Spring flood in 1923, but not replaced until 1932 when it was renamed the George Washington Memorial Bridge.

    Broken Ninth Street Dam and flood waters, April 1923, Alpena, MI

    Washout of Ninth Street Bridge, April 1923, after dam broke

    Washington Avenue, Alpena, Mich. This is a picture taken the year the 9th St. dam broke. Thunder Bay River over flowed & came down Wash. Ave.

    To: Mrs Blanch White, Rives Junction, Jackson, Mich. RD#4 Dear sister, Thought I would write before this – we are at Idas in Kalkaska – will start for home tomorrow – we are having a good time but it is awful cold – Love to all – Mary

    To: Mr Lester Carnihan, Mesick, Wexford Co., Mich. Aug. 21, 1922 Mr Carnihan – landed in Alpena 5 this eve – everything is fine – wish you were here – Chas H.

    February 18, 1927, the way it looked on the main corner the next morning after the fire – there is nothing left standing from Steele’s around to the barber shop. Looking up Chisholm St from 2nd Ave

    A picture of the burning of the Owl Café, Blackburn Insurance Agency, Gavagan’s Ice Cream Parlor, located on corner of Second & Chisholm where the J.C. Penney Co. now stands.

    Eagle Hotel Fire (Lockwood St. ?), March 17, 1928

    To: Mrs C.W. Spalding, 349 Nelson St., Adrian, Mich. 7/8-27 Arrived home OK yesterday. Left Mary’s Wed. morning at 10:20 and arrived in Alpena t 5:30 without any trouble. Found everything all OK here. Helen is washing today altho she feels pretty punk. Leslie