Alpena & Northeast Michigan Postcard Collection

    View from City Hall Steps, First Avenue, Alpena, Mich. Looking at Fletcher Paper Co. Office, c 1912

    Souvenir Views, Alpena, Mich.: Grand Lake, Alpena; Huron Portland Cement; Long Lake; Fletcher Paper Mill; and Presque Isle Lighthouse.

   

    (279) Postmarked July 7, 1942, Alpena, Mich.

    South Second Avenue looking toward Northwest corner of Chisholm St., Alpena, Mich. (Bertrand Block with J.C. Penney Co., Alpena Business Institute, Trumble Pharmacy, Tony & Norm Clothing, Huron Hardw

    Second Avenue and Chisholm Street, Alpena, Michigan. Looking north on Second Avenue, the intersection marks the center of Alpena’s active business life.

    Postmarked February 24, 1913, Bad Axe, Mich.

    Second Avenue, Alpena, Mich. Looking toward bridge from about Lockwood St.

    Lockwood Street ? looking toward Second Avenue. Congregational Church and Eagle Hotel in back center.

    South Second Avenue, Alpena, Mich.

    North View (bird’s eye view), Alpena, Mich. City Hall center right. Looks to be steamer CITY OF ALPENA in Thunder Bay River.

    East View (bird’s eye view), Alpena, Mich. View of Thunder Bay from probably top of City Hall.

    West View (bird’s eye view), Alpena, Mich.

    Corner of Second Avenue and Chisholm Street, Downtown Alpena, Mich., c 1982 . Located along the “Thunder Bay” area of the Lake Huron side of Michigan, downtown Alpena is a bustling community center.

    Postmarked July 7, 1941, Stambaugh, Mich.

    Right to left: Levi Boursaw, Felix Wastinabee, Dan Nahgahgwon, and Isaac Pashgobee holding reins

    To: John Wastinabee, [?] Mich. written over Maunie (?) Rose (?)m, Indian College, Carlisle, PA John Wastinabee lived here in [?] - the other man a Frenchman who worked with the Indian men

    I heard you say once you knew Henry Jacob - he is now deceased - also his wife. This is the camp where I worked all winter on Little Wolf Creek Dam (Curran, MI). Henry Jacobs

    Thomas Chittigo lived in Grayling, Mich.

    Northwest corner of Chisholm Street and Second Avenue (Gavagan’s left; Blackburn’s right; The Owl; “my garage” far upper right; “old barn” next to garage)