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Title
Yorkville School, Grade 1 (January 1957)
Description
Photograph of Yorkville School, class grade 1. Students listed on front: 1- Dorothy Baker, 2- Robin Graham, 3- Terry Stevens, 4- James Matteson, 5- Chris Truby, 6- Irving Lemmon, 7- Jannetta Verway, 8- Eugene Lemmon, 9- Kenneth Cline, 10- Cherri Clark, 11- Michael Mattison, 12- Kathy Johnson, 13- Diane Folk, 14- Candice Waldorf, 15- Marcia Adams, 16- Terri Clark, 17- Paulette Colburn, 18- Robert Adams, Mrs Sweitzer, Teacher.
Title
Stone bridge at Yorkville
Description
Photograph of stone bridge at Yorkville. The bridge has a curb and iron railing installed at top. Text on back: "Stone Bridge at Yorkville, 1925."
Title
Richland Presbyterian Church House, front of the building, stairs
Description
Photograph of the front of the New Richland Community Library prior to being renovated. Text on photo folder tab: " 8 photos of Richland Community Library renovation."
Title
Richland Presbyterian Church House, basement
Description
Photograph of the new Richland Community Library. Renovations in basement. Text on photo folder tab: "8 photos of Richland Community Library renovation."
Title
Richland Community Library, shelves being built
Description
Photograph of the new Richland Community Library. Renovations in basement. Text on photo folder tab: "8 photos of Richland Community Library renovation."
Title
Richland Community Library, basement
Description
Photograph of the new Richland Community Library. Renovations in basement. Text on photo folder tab: "8 photos of Richland Community Library renovation."
Title
Portrait of Robert, son of Dale Humphrey
Description
Photograph mounted on a flat cardstock frame of a young male. Text on front: "Robert, son of Dale humphrey." Robert Franklin Humphrey was the son of Dale and Bertha Humphrey, born in Richland Michigan 15 November 1927, died 13 june 2007 , at Guggenheimer Health and Rehabilitation center, Lynchburg City, Virginia, buried at Fort Hill Memorial Park, Virginia. Robert Humphrey was a vereran of the United States Army and retired from General Electric as a project manager, also member of the Izaak Walton League of Lynchburg, Virginia. He was married to Phyllis Louise Humphrey for 54 years.
Title
Yorkville one-room school house
Description
Photographic Postcard. Text on front: "Previous to 1923, Public School Yorkville, Mich on Gull Lake. ML 114.' Text on photograph file folder tab: P307 Yorkville school (1919) one room District (fractional district 9 )." This school was used until 1919.
Title
Yorkville School, 1921
Description
Photograph of a brick school building. Text on front: "Front Yorkville School - 1921." This is the new Yorkville School Fractional District 9 building constructed 1919 to replace the old Yorkville one room school building at Gull Lake.
Title
Yorkville School, 1923
Description
Photograph of a brick school building. Text on front: "Front Yorkville School - 1923." This is the new Yorkville School Fractional District 9 building constructed 1919 to replace the old Yorkville one room school building at Gull Lake.
Title
Yorkville, Dr. Price's Food, Price Cereal Food Company
Description
Dr. Price Cereal Co. closed in 1907. The hamlet of Yorkville lied in the western side of Ross Township, near Gull Lake, Michigan.
Title
Yorkville Milling Company and railroad station with train at station
Description
Photograph of the Yorkville Milling Company building and Yorkville railroad station with a train pulled into the station. Caption on back: "Where dam is now"
Title
Gull Lake, Waldorf Dining Hall
Description
Building with front porch and sign saying Waldorf Dining Hall.
Title
Yorkville, Ideal Grocery with interurban in front
Description
Copy of a photograph of people standing out front of the Ideal grocery store in Yorkville, Michigan, at the south end of Gull Lake. Early 1900s. Caption reads: “The Ideal store a striving enterprise in its day was owned and operated by Mr. Mrs. Perry W. Rice and was a popular stop for the interruban.”
Title
Gull Lake, Nu-Way grocery boat
Description
Caption: "The Nu-Way was Gull Lake's floating grocery in 1910"
Title
Gull Lake, mail boat
Description
Photograph of a boat on Gull Lake with boathouses on the shoreline. Caption: "Later after the ‘Gull’ the boat known as the ‘Alert’ was engaged in the mail service"
Title
Gull Lake, The Allendale Hotel
Description
Photograph of the Allendale Hotel and the shoreline of Gull Lake with a boat launch boats. The Allendale Hotel was considered the oldest hotel on Gull Lake.
Title
Hawk's Landing and Resort at Gull Lake
Description
Resort on the south shore of Gull Lake which functioned late nineteenth century. Later site of LaBell/Gull Harbor Inn.
Title
The Yorkville House
Description
Photograph of a wooden house, with three men sitting outside.
Title
Gull Lake, Taylor Apartments on water with docked steamboat
Description
Original photo postcard of a lakeside building and docks. Caption: Taylor Apartments - Gull Lake Mich - 99 -” Mailed to Librarian in 1988, but card is from early 1900s.
Title
Steamship Michigan, "Kelloggs second annual outing Aug 19-1911”
Description
The Gull Lake steamboat is filled with passengers.
Title
D.C. Olin Houseboat
Description
Photograph of a two-level houseboat on Gull Lake in Michigan.
Title
Gilbert E. Read portrait
Description
Carte de Visite portrait of G. E. Read.
Date
approximately 1863-1877
Title
Elizabeth Hoar Sabin
Description
Carte de Visite portrait of Elizabeth Sabin. On back: "Elizabeth Sabin sister of Grandmother Daniels; maiden name Hoar."
Date
approximately 1863-1877
Title
Small steamboat on Gull Lake
Description
Small steamboat with canopy on the waters of Gull Lake, Michigan.
Title
Gull Lake steamboats "Queen City" and "Michigan"
Description
Steamboats and people near the shore of Gull Lake, Michigan.
Title
Jamaican laborers assigned to Upjohn Farms
Description
Photograph of men standing between two buildings. Text on back: "Jamaican laborers assigned to Upjohn Farms by Federal Govt during World War II-1943 or 1944. Picture taken in Richland where they stayed."
Title
Captain C.E. Norton and the Brownie
Description
The Brownie, a gasoline launch for hire on Gull Lake, is captained by C.E. Norton.
Description
Tour boat on Gull Lake during Ladies Day.
Title
New Gull Lake Hotel, Gull Lake, Mich.
Description
Postcard photograph of the New Gull Lake Hotel located on the western finger of Gull Lake called Labelle, in Yorkville.
Title
Clayton Spalding and Mary Castle by the Castle home in Richland
Description
Photographic copy of two story clapboard house with coverd front porch and a plank laid walk to a sidewalk. Three people are presented, a child, an adult female and a male. Text on front: " Sophmoria Castle's home in Richland. Clayton Spalding + Mary Castle." Text on back: "Duplicated by WMU Archives for Carol McBride." Text on photo file folder: P377: Castle Spalding Home- Richland Village- West Street." Mary Sophronia Castle, born to Chauncy and Emma Castle 8 November 1885 Richland, married Dederick Schlobohm 29 September 1908, died 23 June 1978 Kalamazoo, Michigan, buried Prairie Home Cemetery, Richland, Michigan.
Title
Old Richland School
Description
Photograph of the Richland District #5 school. It was the only Richland district to build a brick school. In 1883 voters approved proposal to build a new building for a sum not to exceed $4,000. When all bids came in higher the school directors dicided to build it themselves. Land was pruchased from S.P. Jewett. Materials and bricks were hauled in by rail, wages for labor began at $1.50 a day and later incresed to $2.50. Teamsters earned more. The Italian revival architectual style building served students from 1884 to 1923. Text on folder: "P378, Abandoned District #5 School, (1920s)."
Title
Aerial photograph of the Upjohn Farms
Description
Aerial Photograph of Upjohn farms & Pharmacia boardered by Gull Road viewing toward Kalamazoo, Michigan. Handwritten text on back: "Upjohn Photographic Services P379, 1) Upjohn Farms, 2) Pharmacia, 2005 Pfizer, Inc." Text on Photograph file folder: "P379, Aerial view of Upjohn Farms, - 1976 (looking toward Kalamazoo."
Title
Images of Yorkville, Lover's Lane, and the Stone Arch Bridge
Description
Seven small photographs attached to an album page of Yorkville, Michigan. Includes images of Lovers Lane Creek from the stone bridge at Yorkville to the outlet and stone bridge down stream from the dam at what is now East DE Avenue.
Title
Yorkville School students, 1940
Description
Photograph album page. Yorkville School, mixed classes 1940 group photo. Text of students, teacher and staff list below photograph: "Top row: Jack Smith, Marilyn Corwin, Forrest Judd, David Curtis, Belden Phillips (Custodian), Sharon Stevenson, Genevieve Chapman, Lester Noel, Anna May Judd, Hazel Wildermuth. Second row: Lucille Greer (Teacher), Clayton Barker, Richard Graham, Phillip Wunderlin, Connie MacLeay, Phyllis Chapman, Sally Waldorf, Donna Towne, Marilyn Marcous, Ronald Perkins. Third row: Mary Endsfield, Donald MacLeay, Jack Sweitzer, Ralph Merrick, Donald Curtis, Tommy Peters, Mary Anne Bearty, Bobby Smith, Eugene Howell, Garth Wooston, Dick Sweitzer, Beverly Perkins, Bottom row: Donald Wilbur, David VanPelt, missing, Emmet Kyle, Sharon Giddings, ... Judd, Jean Whipple, Donna Parker, Shirley Bearty, ... Wilber, Billy Ulrick, Lyle Stevens, Von Howell."
Title
The Kellogg, Gull Lake Biological Station, Hickory Corners, Mich.
Description
Photographic postcard of the windmill and bridge at the W.K. Gull Lake Biological Station in Hickory Corners, Michigan.
Title
J.W. Stack Research and Classroom Building at the Kellogg Gull Lake Laboratories on Gull Lake
Description
Color photographic postcard with a divided back of the J.W. Stack Research Building. In 1954 the W.K. Kellogg Foundation deeded this land on Gull Lake, Michigan to Michigan State College and in 1959 construction commensed on the J.W. Stack Research Building. Handwritten text on front: "Classroom at Kellogg Biological Station, Gull Lake." Text on back: "J.W. Stack Research and Classroom Building at Kellogg Gull Lake Laboratories on beautiful Gull Lake. Photographed and published by Penrod Studio, Berrien Center, Michigan."
Title
Married and conference housing at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station on Gull Lake
Description
Color photographic postcard. Handwritten text on front: " Kellogg Biological Station Dorm, 1970 - 1980". Text on back: " Lakeside view of Married Housing and Conference Housing at W. K. Kellogg Biological Station on beautiful Gull Lake. Photographed and published by Penrod Studio, Berrien Center, Michigan."
Title
Reception Center and entrance to the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary and Wintergreen Lake
Description
Photographic postcard with a divided back of the Reception Center entrance structure to the Kellogg Bird Santuary and Wintergreen Lake. In 1960 funds were provided for construction. Handwritten text on front: "Reception center at Gull Lake Bird Sanctuary." Text on back: "Reception Center, entrance to Kellogg Bird Santuary, and Wintergreen Lake. Photographed and published by Penrod Studio, Berrien Center, Michigan."
Title
Yorkville Community Church
Description
Photograph of the Yorkville Community Church of white clapboard construction with a bell tower. Built in 1851 it is one of the oldest buildigns in the Richland-Gull Lake area. Wesleyan Methodists held church there from 1860 to 1875. With the church no longer being used it became a storage barn for locals and entered a 20 year decline. In 1894 a local group, including Thomas Graham, Charles Clark, and Walter Wedge performed repairs and remodeling. In 1985 a Baptist Society was organized and Mr. J.H. Robson was chosen deacon. The church remained unchanged until in 1961 a rear wing was added.
Title
Grocery boat docked at Lover's Lane, bridge, Yorkville
Description
Photograph of Lovers Lane bridge at Yorkville and the Grocery Boat on dry dock skids. The Grocery boat made daily runs along the lake offering shopping convience to the resorters. The boat was owned by the Ideal Store, known as the Nuway Store. Text on front: " Just south of Lover's Lane Bridge at Yorkville. Grocery Boat parked near boat houses in Lover's Lane 1910.
Title
Gull Lake Junction, Augusta, Mich.
Description
Photograph of the Gull Lake Junction depot Yorkville. This is the spur line of the Mansfield, Coldwater and Lake Michigan Rail Road. In 1920 the Michign Railroad Company petitioned for permission to discontinue the agents for their Gull Lake Junction. The request was approved 1920. Text on front: "This is where the spur line of M C R.R. switched to come up to Allendale Gull Lake and Perry Rice's Store at Yorkville about 1900."
Title
Builders of Lover's Lane Bridge, Yorkville, taken July 1915
Description
Photographic postcard of the partial completion of the bridge over Lovers lane at Yorkville. Eight men are standing on the timber cross joists on top that would hold the bridge surface. Two men are under the bridge structure on a float. Handwritten text on front: "Taken July 1915 Builders of Lovers Lane bridge." Same image as P-401a.
Title
Bayview Dock, Gull Lake, 1921
Description
Photograph of the docks at Bay View on Gull Lake, with people and boats by the docks.
Title
Dr. Price's Cereal Food Co, 1903
Description
Workers outside of the Dr. Price Cereal Co. in Yorkville, which lies on the western side of Ross Township, near Gull Lake, Michigan. The factory made Try-A-Bita, a celery-flavored cereal.
Title
Yorkville train depot in winter
Description
Photograph of the Yorkville train depot. Text pasted on image: "It was in the early 80's that the origianl Michigan & Ohio Railroad later the C.J.&M and the D.T.&M reached the shores of Gull Lake. By 1900, the interurbans were carrying passengers by the hundres, with Bay View, Allendale and Yorkville still serving as the principal gateways to the lake."
Title
Five people in swim clothes on a dock in Gull Lake
Description
Photograph of four woman standing on a wooden plank dock and a man standing in the lake, presumed to be Gull Lake at Labelle; all in period swimware. Text on front: "1905"
Title
Builders of Lover's Lane Bridge, Yorkville, taken July 1915
Description
Partial completion of the bridge over Lovers Lane at Yorkville. Eight men are standing on the timber cross joists on top that would hold the bridge surface. Two men are under the bridge structure on a float. Same image as P-408.
Title
Steam shovel used in putting road across Lover's Lane in 1915
Description
Steam shovel excavating for constrution of the road and bridge across Lovers Lane at Yorkville. Text at top: " Steam shovel used in putting in road across Lovers Lane in 1915."
Title
Building road across Lover's Lane, Yorkville
Description
Derrick moving a large wooden beam across lovers Lane in Yorkville, Mich.
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