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    Automobile on Water Street with the Standard Oil Company office in the background.

    Possibly snowplowing or scraping the streets in winter.

    Man driving horse on a stand-behind cart.

    Haltiner family members part of deer hunting season and deer pole.

    A train wreck at Stearns - Sigma, Michigan in Kalkaska County.

    Middle Island Life Saving Station crewmen sitting atop a sailboat at dock.

    Middle Island Life Saving Crew sitting in front of lifeboat building.

    Winter scene on Middle Island with U.S. Life Saving crewman posing with rifle near large ice formation.

    Middle Island Life Saving Crew on lifeboat.

    Two Middle Island Life Saving Station crewmen with three young woman in a building on the island.

    Middle Island Life Saving Station Surfman #6 George Hartlep with crew mate carrying the catch of the day.

    Six Middle Island Coast Guard crewmen lined up in front of surfboat building.

    Life Saving crew "lounging" outside surfboat building on Middle Island.

    U.S. Life Saving surfman on Middle Island.

    "Gilchrist Log Pile, 1905"

    Much hardwood was cut after most of the white pine had disappeared. Maple and oak, especially, were used for flooring and trim. The doors and trim at the Alpena City Hall are good examples, which wer

    Excelsior is wood shavings used as packing material.

    A boom was a "pen" of logs chained together into which the logs were sorted according to the mill to which they were being sent. A boom house was a shelter for boom workers.

    Logs were piled or "banked" along the river banks; then they were rolled into the river and floated down to the sorting gap before being sent to the saw mills.

    Large ice formations during the Winter on Middle Island.