The Venice of the Lakes brochure page

Cass Lake Venice Company property sale brochure located on Cass and Sylvan Lakes

Walnut Lake Fish 1972

Object ID: 2002-001-152

Collection: Walnut Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

People displaying their catches at the Walnut Lake Fish 1972

Walnut Lake Fish 1972

Object ID: 2002-001-151

Collection: Walnut Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Boy with Fish at the Walnut Lake Fish (1972)

Walnut Lake Fish 1972

Object ID: 2002-001-150

Collection: Walnut Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Walnut Lake Fish 1972

Geese – Walnut Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-149

Collection: Walnut Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

A swan and geese on Walnut Lake

Swans – Walnut Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-148

Collection: Walnut Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Walnut Lake Swans (1991)

Walnut Lake Flood

Object ID: 2002-001-147

Collection: Walnut Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Walnut Lake Flood

Walnut Lake Winter

Object ID: 2002-001-146

Collection: Walnut Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Walnut Lake looking East from Comfort – Miller’s Point

Walnut Lake 1908

Object ID: 2002-001-145

Collection: Walnut Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Walnut Lake looking South in April of 1908

Bunch Of Kids – Walled Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-144

Date: 1903

Collection: Walled Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

A bunch of kids in a boat on Walled Lake in 1903.

Tobaggon Run – Upper Straits

Object ID: 2002-001-143

Collection: Upper Straits Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Toboggan Run on Upper Straits Lake – Pontiac Trail Side

Giant Maple – Union Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-142

Collection: Union Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Bob Kraddock’s giant silver maple tree – Union Lake

Shore Rehabilition Job – Union

Object ID: 2002-001-141

Collection: Union Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Laarman’s L.R.E. – Typical Shore Rehabilitation job at Chris Platt’s residence (7559 Locklin Ave) on Union Lake in August of 1992

Locklin Ave – Union Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-140

Collection: Union Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Kraddock’s – Union Lake – Locklin Ave (August 1992)

Kraddock’s Waterfront – Union

Object ID: 2002-001-139

Collection: Biography, Union Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Kraddock’s waterfront – Union Lake (August 1992)

Boulder Bulk Head – Union Lk

Object ID: 2002-001-138

Collection: Union Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Kraddock’s boulder bulk head – Union Lake (August 1992).

Sylvan Lake Scene

Object ID: 2002-001-137

Collection: postcard, Sylvan Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Sylvan Lake shore and dock scene

Pine Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-136

Collection: Roads
Subjects: photographic, print

View of Pine Lake Shore

boat anchor from Pine Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-135

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Large anchor brought up from Pine Lake bottom – believed to be from PL Ferry.

Pine Lake – 1935

Object ID: 2002-001-134

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Dock view of Pine Lake in 1935

Pine Lake – 1925

Object ID: 2002-001-133

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Pine Lake in 1925

LRE, Pine Lake South Shore

Object ID: 2002-001-132

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Lake Rehabilitation Engineering, South Shore Pine Lake

Lake Rehabilitaion Engineering, South shore Pine Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-131

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Lake Rehabilitaion Engineering, South shore Pine Lake

South Side of Pine Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-130

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

South side of Pine Lake – typical Lake Regimen Engineering (Jim Laauman) shore rehabilitation work.

Lucci’s Pump House on Pine Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-129

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Lucci’s Pump House on Pine Lake (After)

Lucci’s Pump House on Pine Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-128

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Lucci’s Pump House on Pine Lake (Before)

Bridge – Pine Lake Rd

Object ID: 2002-001-127

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Winter view of bridge on Pine Lake Road in West Bloomfield

Pine Lake Manor Outlot

Object ID: 2002-001-126

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Pine Lake Manor Outlot – North shore of Pine Lake (Summer of 1975).

Pine Rose

Object ID: 2002-001-125

Collection: Pine Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Pine Rose house sign located on the south end of Interlocken on Pine Lake (Spring 1987).

Orchard Lake Aerial

Object ID: 2002-001-124

Collection: Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Aerial view of Orchard Lake and surroundings – looking east. Orchard Lake schools cover

Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-123

Collection: Orchard Lake, postcard
Subjects: photographic, print

Orchard Lake

boat House – Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-122

Collection: Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Orchard Lake boat House

First sailboat – Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-121

Collection: Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Furthermore, the only sail boats on Orchard Lake were owned by General Copeland and he sported two of them. They were sloops and were undoubtedly the first sail boats that set sail on Orchard or Cass Lakes. I have a photograph of the smallest one of them, drawn up on the beach after it was dismantled. Orchard Lake and its Island by Willis Ward, p. 22.

Orchard Lake Hotel

Object ID: 2002-001-120

Collection: Parks
Subjects: photographic, print

Orchard Lake Hotel with Mackinaw Style sailboat

Glimpse of Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-119

Collection: Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

A glimpse of Orchard Lake

Weed Cutting Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-118

Date: 1979

Collection: Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

First year of weed harvesting on Orchard Lake in July of 1979.

Orchard Lake Homes

Object ID: 2002-001-117

Collection: Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Orchard Lake Homes

Object ID: 2002-001-116

Collection: Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Orchard Lake Homes.

Orchard Lake Homes

Object ID: 2002-001-115

Collection: Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Orchard Lake Homes.

Apple Island

Object ID: 2002-001-114

Collection: Apple Island, Nature
Subjects: photographic, print

Orchard Lake, showing Apple Island

Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-113

Collection: Apple Island, Nature, Orchard Lake, postcard
Subjects: photographic, print

Postcard showing an aerial view of Orchard Lake, Cass Lake and Sylvan (1975).

Orchard Lake & Trees

Object ID: 2002-001-112

Collection: Nature, Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Orchard Lake and Trees

Postcard of Orchard Lake Rd

Object ID: 2002-001-111

Collection: Nature, Orchard Lake, postcard
Subjects: photographic, print

Postcard of Orchard Lake Road

Postcard of Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-110

Collection: Nature, Orchard Lake, postcard
Subjects: photographic, print

Postcard of South Shore, Orchard Lake.

Postcard of Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-109

Collection: Nature, Orchard Lake, postcard
Subjects: photographic, print

Postcard of Orchard Lake.

Aerial View of Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-108

Date: 1940

Collection: Nature, Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Aerial view of Orchard Lake (1940).

Aerial View of Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-107

Date: 1940

Collection: Nature, Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Aerial view of Orchard Lake and surroundings (1940).

Aerial View Of Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-106

Collection: Nature, Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Aerial view of Orchard Lake and surroundings (1940).

Aerial of Orchard Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-105

Collection: Nature, Orchard Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Aerial view of Orchard Lake (1940).

Bridge Over Canal In Winter

Object ID: 2002-001-104

Collection: Pontiac
Subjects: photographic, print

Angled winter view of bridge over canal connecting Cass Lake with Dollar Lake.

Bridge Over Canal In Winter

Object ID: 2002-001-103

Collection: Pontiac
Subjects: photographic, print

Winter view of bridge over canal connecting Cass Lake with Dollar Lake.

Cass Lake Front Houses

Object ID: 2002-001-102

Collection: Cass Lake, postcard, West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

These houses are on the east shore of Cass Lake and Willow Beach St. near the canal where the foot bridge goes over the bathing beach nearby. These houses were mostly summer cottages at the time this picture was taken.

Cass Lake Front Houses

Object ID: 2002-001-101

Collection: Cass Lake, postcard
Subjects: photographic, print

East shore of Cass Lake in Keego Harbor. These houses are on the Cass Lake front.

Second Bridge Over Canal

Object ID: 2002-001-100

Date: 1920-1930

Collection: Cass Lake, Keego Harbor, postcard
Subjects: MMA, photographic, print

In the background is a bridge over the canal from Cass Lake to Dollar Lake. This is the second bridge over the canal from Dollar Lake to Cass Lake – built before 1926 – Ann Crawford

First Bridge Over Canal

Object ID: 2002-001-099

Date: 1920-1930

Collection: Cass Lake, Keego Harbor, postcard
Subjects: MMA, photographic, print

Canoe traveling under bridge on canal connecting Cass Lake to Dollar Lake. This is the first bridge over the canal from Dollar Lake to Cass Lake. I remember walking over it in 1923 – Ann Crawford

Cass Lake Postcard

Object ID: 2002-001-098

Collection: Cass Lake, Keego Harbor, postcard
Subjects: MMA, photographic, print

Postcard artwork of dock on Cass Lake in Keego Harbor. Postcard is dated 1919 (Ann Crawford).

Canal At Willow Beach

Object ID: 2002-001-097

Collection: Cass Lake, postcard
Subjects: MMA, photographic, print

Canal at Willow Beach – Warde Point in the distance (Ann Crawford).

Foot Bridge on Willow Beach

Object ID: 2002-001-096

Collection: Cass Lake, Keego Harbor, postcard
Subjects: MMA, photographic, print

In the background is the foot bridge on Willow Beach over the canal of the Bathing Beach (Ann Crawford).

Tucker House

Object ID: 2002-001-095

Collection: Cass Lake, Keego Harbor, postcard
Subjects: MMA, photographic, print

Tucker House in Keego Harbor (around 1925) located at the end of the canal on Cass Lake connecting to Dollar Lake. The house is now remodeled and Ann (Tucker) Crawford lives there.

Cass Lake Campers

Object ID: 2002-001-094

Collection: Cass Lake, postcard
Subjects: MMA, photographic, print

Group of people camping near Cass Lake.

Woman Curling

Object ID: 2002-001-093

Collection: Orchard Lake
Subjects: MMA, photographic, print

Woman curling in the West Bloomfield Lakes district.

Curling

Object ID: 2002-001-092

Collection: Orchard Lake
Subjects: MMA, photographic, print

Group of people curling in the West Bloomfield Lakes district (1975).

Bridge on Spring Road

Object ID: 2002-001-091

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: MMA, photographic, print

Winter scene of bridge located on Spring Road in West Bloomfield.

W. Bloomfield Lakes District

Object ID: 2002-001-090

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

Aerial view of West Bloomfield Lakes district. Orchard, Pine and Walnut Lakes from the northwest. Dow’s Bay in the foreground.

W. Bloomfield Lakes District

Object ID: 2002-001-089

Collection: Cass Lake, Peter Dow
Subjects: photographic, print

Aerial view of West Bloomfield Lakes district. Dow Ridge is the isthmus in the foreground, unique in its location between Oakland County’s two largest lakes, Orchard and Cass. Its group of residence sites, practically surrounded by water, is among the finest in West Bloomfield Lakes.

W. Bloomfield Lakes District

Object ID: 2002-001-088

Collection: Cass Lake
Subjects: photographic, print

Aerial view of West Bloomfield Lakes district. Looking Southwest over Cass, Orchard and Upper Straits Lakes. The narrow isthmus is Dow Ridge.

W. Bloomfield Lakes District

Object ID: 2002-001-087

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

Aerial view of West Bloomfield Lakes District. Dow Ridge from the north, Cass Lake in the foreground, Orchard and Upper Straits beyond.

Woodpecker Lake – Nature Park

Object ID: 2002-001-086

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

Child in front of Woodpecker Lake Nature Park

W. Bloomfield – Small Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-085

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

View of wildflowers surrounding a small lake in West Bloomfield

W. Bloomfield – Small Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-084

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

View of a small lake in West Bloomfield

W. Bloomfield – Small Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-083

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

View from house of small lake in West Bloomfield

W. Bloomfield – Small Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-082

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

View of small lake in West Bloomfield

W. Bloomfield – Small Lake

Object ID: 2002-001-081

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

Autumn view from behind trees of a small lake in West Bloomfield

Morris Lake- Nature Park

Object ID: 2002-001-080

Collection: Morris Lake, Nature, Parks
Subjects: photographic, print

View from path of Morris Lake Nature Park – Sign reads: Devil’s Washboard

Aerial Lakes View includes Mor

Object ID: 2002-001-079

Collection: Morris Lake, Nature, Parks
Subjects: cabinet, photograph

Aerial view of the West Bloomfield Lakes from the South. Morris Lake in the Foreground

Lake View

Object ID: 2002-001-078

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

Lake View from behind vegetation

Aerial View of Lakes District

Object ID: 2002-001-077

Collection: West Bloomfield
Subjects: photographic, print

Aerial View of the Heart of the West Bloomfield Lakes district, Orchard Lake, Cass Lake, and Sylvan Lake. Note the area of water compared to that of land. In hot weather the temperature between these larger spring fed lakes is cooler than elsewhere.