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    Aug 3 – (19)39, Frankfort, Mich. Dear Minnie – Well, we are in Frankfort. It sure is lovely here. Our room faces the lake. We have very good meals. Grace and Eva swim every day. There are some beautiful homes here. The weather has been perfect so far. They say ...

    To: Mrs Grace Chavey, 26850 W. 7 Mi, RFD No. 3, Detroit , MI Dear Grandma, We arrived last night after an awful long drive. We were to a beach today on Lake Huron. Smith’s have a log cabin in the woods, which is very peaceful. Love, Geraldine

    Wolverine, Mich. July 25 / 1939 Dear Mrs Wells, I hope you are improving as fast as possable. I was over to Alpena last week – may go to Petoskey tomorrow. As ever your friend, Eugene Owen

    Alpena Central High School c1939 A little history The Union School was completed in 1868 on the block of Second and Dunbar Street. However, the town continued to grow. The board determined the school was not large enough. So in 1889 the Union School was demolished making way for the ...

    Two women posing along the edge of the Thunder Bay River, east of the Chisholm Street Bridge, Alpena, Michigan, in 1939. This bridge was built in 1932 and was named the George Washington Memorial Bridge in recognition of the bicentennial anniversary of George Washington's birth in 1732. Trelfa number LM-39-1

    To: Mr and Mrs H. Ballard, 812 Boone St., Piqua, Ohio We haven’t been fishing. Hale has been sick in bed most of the time. Hope he will be able to get up tomorrow. Hale & Marg.

    A master conservation plan for Cheboygan County made by the Michigan Department of Conservation in 1938.

    Cast members from a show put on by the Alpena Rotary International Club. Young women standing left to right: Clarissa Howe and Joey Smith. Young women kneeling from left to right: Clarissa Howe and Betty Lappan.

    A "chorus line" from a show put on by the Alpena Rotary International Club. The young women from left to right: Virginia Downing, Margaret Currier, Margy McDonald, Phyllis Hanson, Joey Smith, Gail Martindale, Dorothy Krueger, Helen Spleet, Clarissa Howe, Betty Lappan, Edna LaGary, Edith Panknin, and Jean Gordon.

    Log mark for Henry Arlt in Alpena, Michigan, 1938.

    To: Mrs R.C. Edwards, 3813 Clements Ave., Detroit, Michigan Hello Polly, This is an ideal spot to spend some time at. Love, Mabel & Ed

    To: Mrs G.O. Sjordal, 414 Oakland, Frago, North Dakota Do you recognize this place? It is much the same, except that it seems quite a bit larger after Wyoming! We’re moving next week – I’ll have to write a letter to tell you about it. Love, Inez

    To: Mrs Adeline Knapp, 548 W. Dunlap, Northville, MI So far we have had excellent weather for this kind of a trip. Let it continue! We drove to Alpena today on the highway that you drove last year. Everybody fine & appetites O.K. Hope everything at 548 is O.K. Guy ...

    To: Russell , Jerry and Jack Denig, So Chestnut So, Van Wert, Ohio We are in Alpena, Mich on Lake Huron. Fishing on Beaver Lake. Fishing is fine. Coming home Sun. Paul

    To: Mr E.W. Thillman, 2419 Myrtle, Detroit, MI Hello old kid, just going in for a good swim. Will be home soon, Love Madje

    "Alpena, looking West, July 18, 1937"

   

    Earl Girard was hired by the WPA in the mid to late 1930s to write histories of the Alpena area. This is his history of the U.S. Federal Building in Alpena, Michigan.

    To: Mrs R. Fisher, Horse Isle, Rockwood, Michigan Dear Lil. Having such a wonderful trip, the weather has been grand. Love from all Enise

    To: Mr W.B. Manering (?), 308 E. Rose St., Vicksburg, MI Aug. 11-36 Cheboygan, Mich Dear Dad:- We are on our way from here to Mackinac. The weather has been fine. We are having a good time. We are all well. And I hope you are and that you are ...